The influence of global environmental change on infectious disease dynamics workshop summary

"The twentieth century witnessed an era of unprecedented, large-scale, anthropogenic changes to the natural environment. Understanding how environmental factors directly and indirectly affect the emergence and spread of infectious disease has assumed global importance for life on this planet. W...

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Main Authors: Choffnes, Eileen R., Mack, Alison (Author)
Corporate Authors: Institute of Medicine (U.S.) Forum on Microbial Threats, Influence of Global Environmental Change on Infectious Disease Dynamics (Workshop) (2013, Washington, D.C.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. National Academies Press 2014, [2014]
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Collection: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Workshop overview
  • Contributed Manuscripts
  • Animal migration and infectious disease risk / Sonia Altizer, Rebecca Bartel, and Barbara A. Han
  • Climate change and infectious diseases: from evidence to a predictive framework / Sonia Altizer, Richard S. Ostfeld, Pieter T. J. Johnson, Susan Kutz, and C. Drew Harvell
  • Migration, civil conflict, mass gathering events, and disease / Chris Beyrer and James Wren Tracy
  • The importance of movement in environmental change and infectious disease / Nina Bharti
  • Toward a county-level map of tuberculosis rates in the U.S. / David Scales, John S. Brownstein, Kamran Khan, and Martin S. Cetron
  • Assessing the origin of and potential for international spread of Chikungunya virus from the Caribbean / Kamran Khan, Isaac Bogoch, John S. Brownstein, Jennifer Miniota, Adrian Nicolucci, Wei Hu, Elaine O. Nsoesie, Martin Cetron, Maria Isabella Creatore, Matthew German, and Annelies Wilder-Smith
  • Eight critical questions for pandemic prediction / Toph Allen, Kris Murray, Kevin J. Olival, and Peter Daszak
  • Misconceptions and emerging pathogens: what can mathematical models tell us? / Andrew Dobson
  • Environmental change and infectious disease: how new roads affect the transmission of diarrheal pathogens in rural Ecuador / Joseph N. S. Eisenberg, William Cevallos, Karina Ponce, Karen Levy, Sarah J. Bates, James C. Scott, Alan Hubbard, Nadia Vieira, Pablo Endara, Mauricio Espinel, Gabriel Trueba, Lee W. Riley, and James Trostle
  • In-roads to the spread of antibiotic resistance: regional patterns of microbial transmission in northern coastal Ecuador / Joseph N. S. Eisenberg, Jason Goldstick, William Cevallos, Gabriel Trueba, Karen Levy, James Scott, Bethany Percha, Rosana Segovia, Karina Ponce, Alan Hubbard, Carl Marrs, Betsy Foxman, David L. Smith, and James Trostle
  • Social connectedness can inhibit disease transmission: social organization, cohesion, village context, and infection risk in rural Ecuador / Jonathan L. Zelner, James Trostle, Jason E. Goldstick, William Cevallos, James S. House, and Joseph N. S. Eisenberg
  • Climate, wind storms, and the risk of valley fever (coccidioidomycosis) / Heidi E. Brown, Andrew C. Comrie, James Tamerius, Mohammed Khan, Joseph A. Tabor, and John N. Galgiani
  • Zoonotic disease risks associated with trade and movement of animals / Nina Marano, Adam J. Langer, G. Gale Galland, Nicole J. Cohen, Emily Lankau, Ashley Marrone, David McAdam, Casey Barton Behravesh, and Nicki Pesik
  • The global distribution and burden of dengue / Samir Bhatt, Peter W. Gething, Oliver J. Brady, Jane P. Messina, Andrew W. Farlow, Catherine L. Moyes, John M. Drake, John S. Brownstein, Anne G. Hoen, Osman Sankoh, Monica F. Myers, Dylan B. George, Thomas Jaenisch, G. R. William Wint, Cameron P. Simmons, Thomas W. Scott, Jeremy J. Farrar, and Simon I. Hay
  • Circumpolar populations, climate and environmental change, and the impact on infectious disease patterns / Alan J. Parkinson
  • Climate change and human health: a One Health approach / Jonathan A. Patz and Micah B. Hahn
  • Impacts of climate change on plant diseases: new scenarios for the future / Marco Pautasso and Michal J. Jeger
  • Water quality and health for a sustainable society / Joan B. Rose, Georgia Mavrommati, and Erin A. Dreelin
  • Includes bibliographical references