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Pathogen Transmission Dynamics among Wildlife and Human Settlements in Rural Western Uganda

The following grant was awarded by, is supported by, is administered by or is in partnership with the Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Funding Fogarty Program

Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)

Project Information in NIH RePORTER

Pathogen Transmission Dynamics among Wildlife and Human Settlements in Rural Western Uganda

Principal Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Principal Investigator(s) (PI)

Stumpf, Rebecca

Project Contact Information

Email: rstumpf@uiuc.edu

Year(s) Awarded

2024-2029

Country

Uganda

Project Description

Results from our surveillance sampling, phylodynamics, advanced computational tools and predictive transmission will provide knowledge of disease transmission in a spillover hotspot. Our protocol will demonstrate how tools and predictive models will provide knowledge of disease transmission pathways in complex environments.

The work will enable future research targeting dangerous but rare pathogens, such as single-stranded RNA viruses of zoonotic origin (e.g., Ebola). Transmission dynamics of viral pathogens will inform proactive health and conservation policies to reduce cross-species disease transmission at a time of increasing human-wildlife.

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