When diseases are heavily mediated by the environment, the best medicine might not be medicine at all. Read how De Leo Lab uses predator prawns 🦐 to control the spread of schistosomiasis by hunting the snails that carry the disease - via Stanford Magazine: bit.ly/42wROej

We're #hiring! OHT is seeking a Research Analyst with modeling skills in the US. Tag someone you think should apply or apply yourself if you would be a good fit. Find out more and learn how to apply here: onehealthtrust.org/who-we-are/wor… #researchjobs #research #researchmodeling

📣 We're Hiring! 📣 Looking for a #postdoc in #Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases. Investigate the effects of land use change on vector-borne disease Stanford University using field data from Madre de Dios, Peru. 🌱 FY24 min. $71,650 🌱 Apply: stanford.io/3qoK14n

As areas approach schistosomiasis elimination, cost-effective surveillance techniques are increasingly needed for pinpointing areas of high infection risk at fine geographic scales. In our new publication... doi.org/10.1186/s12942…

1/2 New nature editorial with Ben Arnold on a sustainable way to control the neglected tropical disease, schistosomiasis: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Great to see this solution for #schistosomiasis control out in the wild. Thanks to Nathan Lo, Ben Arnold and Nature News & Views for helping it reach a wider audience!

I spent much of my time at Stanford Woods Institute thinking about win-win solutions for health and the environment and how to achieve them. This is an exciting example demonstrated by Rohr Ecology Lab + colleagues on a disease (#schistosomiasis) in a place (🇸🇳) close to my heart.

Out in nature: an exciting ✨win-win-win✨ intervention to #beatNTDs, control invasive vegetation and reduce agrochemical use in #Senegal 🙌 Kudos to Rohr Ecology Lab for leading this work. Honored to have contributed a small piece (field data from my dissertation Stanford University🌲)

Check out the paper here!

Morris is a small Minnesota town with big climate goals. mprnews.org/story/2023/08/…

Free #Covid tests are back. The goal here: Encourage use AND maintain warm domestic rapid test production capacity. It's been a boom and bust phenomenon for rapid test manufacturers. statnews.com/2023/09/20/fre…

CU Boulder is doing a cluster hire in public health. One of the tenure-track assistant professor positions is in health geography with a focus on global health. See here for more details: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail… #globalhealth #healthgeography CU Boulder 🦬

I'm hiring a postdoc! Come work with me on pesticides, human health, and wildlife interactions in Uganda! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…

Tune in at 10 AM! OEHHA & California Department of Public Health host a webinar on #ClimateChange's impacts on #InfectiousDisease. Featuring Andrea Lund, Gail Sondermeyer Cooksey, and Sarah Rutschmann. Agenda/Registration➡️ bit.ly/3QVcMju Webinar Series➡️bit.ly/4c9aeaB #BridgingScienceAndAction

🏅Announcing the 2024 ESA award recipients!🏅 These remarkable individuals have made outstanding contributions to ecology in research, teaching, sustainability, diversity, and lifelong commitment to the profession. Read the full announcement here: esa.org/blog/2024/05/3…

Over 270K dengue cases were reported to Africa CDC in 2023. Our new Nature Communications paper shows that past dengue lineages were introduced into Africa by multiple recent importations, mainly from Asia/East Asia. Targeting networks of spread may help prevent future outbreaks! #Dengue

In search of a postdoc to work on new canine Chagas disease initiatives funded by NIH and DHS. Here in Texas, there are many naturally-infected dogs creating opportunities for research to improve veterinary and human health. Details: Vetmed.tamu.edu/hamer-lab/oppo… Texas A&M VetMed

Truth is: this is a destructive shitshow that will kill people, weaken US standing in many countries, empower US rivals, brutalize honorable government workers, and wreck well-respected NGOs. All for a bitter vendetta by a few people. That gets harder to defend in the daylight.