Pranav Sudhir Pandit

Pranav Sudhir Pandit

Assistant Agronomist and Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor in Residence

Population Health & Reproduction


Education
2010, BVSAH, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Science University, India
2012, MPVM, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, California, United States
2015, PhD, École Nationale Vétérinaire, Agroalimentaire et de l'Alimentation, Nantes, France
2021, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, California, United States
Active Research Grants
Assistant Researcher, EpiCenter for Emerging Infectious Disease Intelligence , Christine K. Johnson (Principal Investigator), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Emerging Disease Research Centers Grant
Other, Impacts of rapid landscape change and biodiversity on virus host specificity, Christine K. Johnson (Principal Investigator), National Science Foundation
Co-Investigator, eMB: Enhancing Mathematical Models to Investigate the Influences of Climate Change on Zoonotic Spillover, Majid Bani-Yaghoub (Principal Investigator), National Science Foundation
Co-Investigator, Midwest Virtual Laboratory Of Pathogen Transmission In Healthcare Settings (Mvl-Paths), Majid Yaghoub Bani (Principal Investigator), CDC
Principal Investigator, Preparing for the next variant of concern: Modeling SARS-CoV2 dynamics in public institutions and effects of institutional policies on community transmission., (Principal Investigator), CRAFT: 2.0, UC Davis
Principal Investigator, Climate-driven models to predict future risk of arenavirus spillover, (Principal Investigator), Wellcome Trust, UK
Principal Investigator, Scaling the Wildlife Morbidity and Mortality Event Alert System to enhance early detection of wildlife morbidity and mortality events in Florida, (Principal Investigator), Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission
Co-Principal Investigator, Prevention and mitigation of high consequence pathogen spillover in Southeast Asian live animal markets and supply chains, Amanda Fine (Principal Investigator), U.S. Department of State
Co-Investigator, Arizona, expanding zoonotic disease surveillance and response in Arizona through interagency coordination and resource development, Terra Kelly (Principal Investigator), American Rescue Plan Act Zoonotic Disease Grant Program
Co-Investigator, Creating the California Wildlife Health Cooperative (CWHC) to meet the Golden State's increasing need for wildlife health and zoonotic disease surveillance, management and response capacity, Deana Clifford (Principal Investigator), American Rescue Plan Act Zoonotic Disease Grant Program
Honors and Awards
2015 Scotland’s Rural College Award
2011 Narotam Sekhsaria Fellowship
2010 Ravi Shankaran Fellowship by Inlaks Foundation, India
2007-2010 Kishor Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellow
Most Recent Five Book Chapters
2012 Mahabal A, Pande S, Pandit P, Ponkshe A: State Fauna Series, Kolkata ZSI, (ed), Zoological Survey of India, . 147-188.
Research Focus
  • Ecological drivers of zoonotic pathogens
  • Effects of management practices on disease distribution in livestock populations
  • Human animal interfaces and spillover
Specialty Focus
One Health
Ten Recent Publications

2023
Scalco R, de Oliveira GN, da Rosa Curcio B, Wooten M, Magdesian KG, Hidai ST, Pandit P, Aleman M
Red blood cell distribution width to platelet ratio in neonatal foals with sepsis

2023
Zimmerman DM, Hardgrove E, Sullivan S, Mitchell S, Kambale E, Nziza J, Ssebide B, Shalukoma C, Cranfield M, Pandit PS, Troth SP, Callicrate T, Miller P, Gilardi K, Lacy RC
Projecting the impact of an ebola virus outbreak on endangered mountain gorillas

2022
Galvin AN, Pandit PS, English SG, Quock RC, Bandivadekar RR, Colwell RR, Robinson BW, Ernest HB, Brown MH, Sehgal RNM, Tell LA
Evaluation of Minimally Invasive Sampling Methods for Detecting Avipoxvirus: Hummingbirds as a Case Example

2022
Pandit PS, Anthony SJ, Goldstein T, Olival KJ, Doyle MM, Gardner NR, Bird B, Smith WA, Wolking D, Gilardi K, Monagin C, Kelly T, Uhart M, Epstein JH, Machalaba C, Rostal MK, Dawson P, Hagan E, Sullivan A, Li H, Chmura AA, Latinne A, Lange C, O'Rourke T, Olson SH, Keatts L, Mendoza AP, Perez A, de Paula CD, Zimmerman D, Valitutto M, LeBreton M, McIver D, Islam A, Duong V, Mouiche M, Shi Z, Mulembakani P, Kumakamba C, Ali M, Kebede N, Tamoufe U, Bel-Nono S, Camara A, Pamungkas J, Coulibaly K, Abu-Basha E, Kamau J, Silithammavong S, Desmond J, Hughes T, Shiilegdamba E, Aung O, Karmacharya D, Nziza J, Ndiaye D, Gbakima A, Sijali Z, Wacharapluesadee S, Robles EA, Ssebide B, Suzán G, Aguirre LF, Solorio MR, Dhole TN, Nga NTT, Hitchens PL, Joly DO, Saylors K, Fine A, Murray S, Karesh W, Daszak P, Mazet JAK, PREDICT Consortium, Johnson CK
Predicting the potential for zoonotic transmission and host associations for novel viruses

2022
Sanchez JN, Munk BA, Colby J, Torres SG, Gonzales BJ, DeForge JR, Byard AJ, Konde L, Shirkey NJ, Pandit PS, Botta RA, Roug A, Ziccardi MH, Johnson CK
Pathogen surveillance and epidemiology in endangered peninsular bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni)

2021
Grange ZL, Goldstein T, Johnson CK, Anthony S, Gilardi K, Daszak P, Olival KJ, O'Rourke T, Murray S, Olson SH, Togami E, Vidal G; Expert Panel; PREDICT Consortium; Mazet JAK; University of Edinburgh Epigroup members those who wish to remain anonymous
Ranking the risk of animal-to-human spillover for newly discovered viruses

2021
Saylors K, Wolking DJ, Hagan E, Martinez S, Francisco L, Euren J, Olson SH, Miller M, Fine AE, Thanh NNT, Tran Minh P, Kalengkongan JD; PREDICT Consortium; Kusumaningrum T, Latinne A, Pamungkas J, Safari D, Saputro S, Bamba D, Coulibaly KJ, Dosso M, Laudisoit A, N'guettia Jean KM, Dutta S, Islam A, Shano S, Mwanzalila MI, Trupin IP, Gbakima A, Bangura J, Yondah ST, Karmacharya D, Shrestha RD, Kamta MAM, Mouiche MMM, Ndolo HM, Niama FR, Onikrotin D, Daszak P, Johnson CK, Mazet JAK
Socializing One Health: an innovative strategy to investigate social and behavioral risks of emerging viral threats

2021
Kelly TR, Pandit PS^, Carion N, Dombrowski DF, Rogers KH, McMillin SC, Clifford DL, Riberi A, Ziccardi MH, Donnelly-Greenan EL, Johnson CK
Early detection of wildlife morbidity and mortality through an event-based surveillance system

2021
Pandit PS, Bandivadekar RR, Johnson CK, Mikoni N, Mah M, Purdin G, Ibarra E, Tom D, Daugherty A, Lipman MW, Woo K, Tell LA
Retrospective study on admission trends of Californian hummingbirds found in urban habitats (1991-2016)

2021
Pandit PS, Williams DR, Rossitto P, Adaska JM, Pereira R, Lehenbauer TW, Byrne BA, Li X, Atwill ER, Aly SS
Dairy management practices associated with multi-drug resistant fecal commensals and Salmonella in cull cows: a machine learning approach