Ecological Change & Human Health
Ecological Change & Human Health
This work asks how local freshwater ecosystem change affects disease-relevant hosts, human exposure, and infection outcomes. These projects focus on ecological processes at the scale of villages, water-contact sites, habitats, and freshwater communities.
Prawn restoration and infection outcomes
Testing whether ecological restoration can support human health by changing freshwater host communities and infection outcomes.
Lead research · restoration · intervention evaluation · One Health
Trash as habitat for disease hosts
Investigating whether anthropogenic debris creates habitat for freshwater snail hosts and changes local disease ecology.
Lead research · pollution · habitat change · environmental health
Invasive crayfish and snail host ecology
Examining how a novel predator may alter snail host populations and reshape freshwater disease-host communities.
Lead research · invasive species · predator–prey ecology · freshwater systems