Epidemiology and population ecology
Epidemiology is bound up in the distribution and abundance of pathogen host populations. Most members of the Centre would identify interests within this intersection. Examples would include the control of rabies and canine distemper in domestic dogs in developing countries (Sarah Cleaveland, Heather Ferguson, Dan Haydon); the inclusion of vector behavioural ecology into integrated vector control programmes to control malaria (Heather Ferguson, Jan Lindstrom); control of canid viral diseases in Ethiopian wolves and African Wild Dogs (Dan Haydon, Louise Matthews, Clare Marsden, Sarah Cleaveland); the persistence of pathogens in populations of different sizes (Roman Biek); the use of network theory to study the spread of livestock pathogens (Rowland Kao);and the identification and control of pathogens in animal reservoirs (Sarah Cleaveand, Louise Matthews, Dan Haydon, Rowland Kao); the analysis of epidemiological risk (Kath O'Reilly, Dominic Mellor, Stuart Reid), and dynamics of co-infections and within-host pathogen community effects (Isabella Cattadori) - this is to name but a few, and our interests in this area are legion.