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Ecology of Infectious Diseases Initiative (EID)

This joint NIH-NSF program is currently being competed under an NSF program announcement:

Purpose

This joint National Institutes of Health (NIH)-National Science Foundation (NSF) initiative supports efforts to understand the underlying ecological and biological mechanisms that govern relationships between human-induced environmental changes and the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases. The highly interdisciplinary research projects funded under this program apply both ecological and biomedical methods, and study how environmental events such as habitat alteration, biological invasion, climate change, and pollution alter the risks of emergence and transmission of viral, parasitic, and bacterial diseases in humans and other animals. Projects are encouraged to consider how integrated environmental and biomedical approaches to infectious diseases may enhance our ability to predict and control them.

For information on the Ecology of Infectious Diseases Initiative, contact:

Dr. Joshua P. Rosenthal
Program Director

Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health

Building 31, B2C39
31 Center Drive MSC 2220
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220
Phone: (301) 496-1653
Fax: (301) 402-0779

Funding Partners

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Fogarty International Center (FIC)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

National Science Foundation (NSF)
Directorate for Biological Sciences
Directorate for Geosciences
Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences

NIH Awards

Project Period	Project	PI Name	Institution	Title
Fogarty International Center
2007-2012	TW008067	Charles Harding King and Uriel D. Kitron	Case Western Reserve University	Eco-Epidemiology of Schistosomiasis, Malaria and Polyparasitism in Coastal Kenya (Summary)
2007-2010	TW008066	Alexander Frans Van Geen	Columbia University New York Morningside	Does arsenic mitigation in Bangladesh raise exposure to bacterial and viral pathogens (Summary)
2006-2011	TW007872	Peter A. Zimmerman	Case Western Reserve University	Changing Dynamics of Anopheline Transmission of Malaria and Filariasis in Papua New Guinea (Summary)
2006-2010	TW007869	Xiangming Xiao	University of New Hampshire	Economy-Based Risk Assessment and Early Warning for HPAI in Asia (Summary)
2005-2010	TW007550	Richard W. Merritt	Michigan State University	Ecological Relationships of Mycobacterium infection (Summary)
2004-2008	TW006986	Colleen B. Jonsson	Southern Research Institute	Impact of Land Cover Change on Hantavirus Ecology (Summary)
2002-2009	TW005836	Uriel D. Kitron	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Ecoepidemiology of Chagas Disease in Northwest Argentina (Summary)
2002-2007	TW005869	Peter Daszak	Wildlife Trust	Anthropogenic Change & Emerging Zoonotic Paramyxoviruses (Summary)
2002-2008	TW005860	Joseph M. Vinetz	University of California San Diego	Leptospirosis Transmission in the Peruvian Amazon (Summary)
2000-2008	TW001565	Philip Simon Craig	University of Salford	Ecosystem Disturbance and Multiscale Transmission of a Zoonotic Wildlife Pathogen (Summary)
2000-2006	TW001543	Charles Harding King	Case Western Reserve University	Human Population Growth Impact on S. Haematobium (Summary)
2000-2006	TW001582	Stephen T. McGarvey	Brown University	Ecology and Transmission of S. Japonicum: Philippines (Summary)
2000-2004	TW001565	Philip Simon Craig	University of Salford	Parasitic Zoonosis (Echinococcosis) Transmission in China (Summary)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
2006-2010	AI074059	Thomas B. Smith	University of California, Los Angeles	EID - Effects of Avian Migration & Anthropogenic Change on the Distribution...(Summary)
2000-2007	AI049726	Eliska Rejmankova	University of California, Davis	Environmental Determinants of Malaria in Belize (Summary)
2000-2007	AI049725	Scott C. Weaver	University of Texas Medical Br., Galveston	Effect of Neotropical Deforestation on Arbovirus Ecology (Summary)
2000-2005	AI049724	Thomas R. Unnasch	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Ecology of Encephalitis Virus in the Southeastern USA (Summary)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
2002-2008	ES012067	Cheryl J. Briggs	University of California, Berkeley	Amphibian Disease Dynamics in a Fragmented Landscape (Summary)
2000-2005	ES011067	Joseph Kiesecker	Pennsylvania State University	Wetland Urbanization Gradients and Vector Borne Disease (Summary)

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