our goal

Our research centers around the relationship between vector-borne disease, land use, and host immunity. With an emphasis on agriculture, ecology and health, our research focuses on promoting world health and sustainable practices.

Our current project focuses on small farmers in Florida that are living and working on their farms. We are investigating health and infectious risk by farming practice.

Relevant publications

• Exploring the significance of agroforestry and regenerative agriculture in farmer's health and risk of zoonotic disease - Abstract
• ​The effect of deforestation on the human-biting rate of Anopheles darlingi, the primary vector of Falciparum malaria in the Peruvian Amazon
• Islands as Hotspots for Emerging Mosquito-Borne Viruses: A One-Health Perspective
• Does deforestation promote or inhibit malaria transmission in the Amazon? A systematic literature review and critical appraisal of current evidence
• Deforestation and vector-borne disease: Forest conversion favors important mosquito vectors of human pathogens
• Epidemiology of Emergent Madariaga Encephalitis in a Region with Endemic Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis: Initial Host Studies and Human Cross-Sectional Study in Darien, Panama
• Linking deforestation to malaria in the Amazon: characterization of the breeding habitat of the principal malaria vector, Anopheles darlingi
• Eastern equine encephalitis in Latin America
• Effects of environmental change on emerging parasitic diseases
• ​The COVID-19 crisis and Amazonia's indigenous people: Implications for conservation and global health
• Madariaga and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus seroprevalence in rodent enzootic hosts in Eastern and Western Panama
• Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of Madariaga and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus infection