The role of human mobility on disease ecology
Amy Wesolowski, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University; Epidemiology, Harvard
A Special Joint Seminar.
Quantifying human ecological systems is key to understanding the relationship between human populations and infectious pathogens. Characterizing the ecology of many pathogens requires integrating data on humans’ interactions with environmental and biological systems, a goal historically limited by data availability.
Increasingly, novel sources of data are available to quantify human behavior for millions of individuals. In this talk, I will focus on research using mobile phone calling data to quantify human travel patterns that are directly related to ecological disease dynamics.
Quantifying human ecological systems is key to understanding the relationship between human populations and infectious pathogens. Characterizing the ecology of many pathogens requires integrating data on humans’ interactions with environmental and biological systems, a goal historically limited by data availability.
Increasingly, novel sources of data are available to quantify human behavior for millions of individuals. In this talk, I will focus on research using mobile phone calling data to quantify human travel patterns that are directly related to ecological disease dynamics.
| Building: | Dana Natural Resources Building |
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| Event Type: | Workshop / Seminar |
| Tags: | Biology, Discussion, Ecology, Science, Workshop |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from The Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Program in Biology, EEB Thursday Seminars |
