Postdoctoral Research Scientist Eco-social dynamics of tick-borne pathogens along urbanization gradients Columbia University Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology (E3B) The Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology (E3B) at Columbia University invites applications a Postdoctoral Research Scientist position to contribute to transdisciplinary research on OneHealth and
tick-borne diseases in the United States. The successful candidates will join the Eco-Epidemiology lab led by Dr. Maria Diuk-Wasser (https://ecoepidemiologylab.e3b.columbia.edu) to support a newly-funded NSF Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease program award. The position will focus on basic and applied eco-epidemiological questions about the role of landscape, wildlife communities and human behavior in
predicting risk and exposure to Lyme disease and other tick-borne pathogens across urban-to-rural human populations. The candidate will harness existing data and collaborate with the research team to design model-fieldwork and lead efforts to collect ecological (e.g., wildlife, ticks, pathogens), environmental (land use, landscape structure, weather), and human (e.g. human knowledge, attitudes, behavior and
movement) data . The position is highly collaborative, including a network of vector biology and control experts, public health, social and behavioral scientists, economists, and infectious disease modelers in the US and UK. The research will address longstanding ecological questions as well as enhance response capacity for vector-borne disease management. The candidate(s) will also interact with active
projects on emerging zoonotic pathogens including various projects focusing on urban wildlife health, sociobehavioral studies and tick-borne disease surveillance and control and will harness existing datasets from projects supported by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
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