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Background: Veterinary Medicine (University of Sydney), Epidemiology (MS University of California, Davis), PhD candidate in Ecology (University of California Davis)

Research Interests:

  • Infectious diseases - persistence and spatiotemporal dynamics of infectious diseases in wildlife populations
  • Emerging infectious diseases - how anthropogenic change can influence disease dynamics and drive emergence
  • Pathogens in mulithost communities - how epidemiological and ecological factors effect the behavior of pathogens in different hosts
  • Data analysis and modeling - combining these approaches to understand disease systems

PhD dissertation topic: The ecology and epidemiology of Hendra virus in flying foxes. This research involves combining field data collection, data analysis and computational modeling to better understand the ecology and epidemiology of Hendra virus in flying foxes.

Chapters: "The spatiotemporal dynamics and persistence of Hendra virus in flying foxes," "Anthropogenic change and the emergence of Hendra virus," "The epidemiology of Hendra virus in little red flying foxes: a longitudinal field study," "Investigating ecological drivers of emerging infectious diseases."

Links:

Hendra Virus Research

Henipavirus Ecology Collaborative Research Group (HERG)

Consortium for Conservation Medicine

.Email: rkplowright@ucdavis.edu

Cell: (406) 579-5325

Pictures from our Northern Territory field project : a longitudinal study of Hendra virus in little red flying foxes

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