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Title and Abstract

One Health Network Epidemiology in Northeast Madagascar

The zoonotic disease “pandemic life cycle” captures spillover of a pathogen from animals into people, transmission among people locally, and inter-community transmission, with the pathogen eventually connecting into global transportation networks. I use data from Madagascar to show how the early stages of this life cycle can be investigated using network modeling from human movement data and survey instruments, coupled with biological sampling for parasites and pathogens. With these methods, we map the transmission pathways involved in disease spillover and subsequent transmission in human populations, and importantly, identify the socio-demographic drivers of connectivity on epidemiological networks.

Biographies

Charles Nunn is the Gosnell Family Professor of Global Health and Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University. He is also the Director of the Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine (TriCEM). Nunn uses evolutionary approaches to understand and improve human and animal health. He and his research group investigate the ecology and evolution of infectious disease, climate change and health, and evolutionary medicine. Nunn addresses these questions using phylogenetic methods, mathematical modeling, and through fieldwork in Madagascar.