Event

The UB community is invited to join us on Monday, March 24th at 4:00pm for a GEM Work-in-Progress science talk presented by Kelly Baker, PhD, Associate Professor & Director of the Center for Climate Change and Health Equity in the UB Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health.

Title: Application of Patho-microbial community patterns at the One health interface for prioritization of community-based infectious disease prevention interventions.

Description:
Young children experience over 2 billion cases of diarrheal disease and enteric fever each year globally, contributing to hundreds of thousands of cases of severe malnutrition and death. The PAthogen Transmission and Health Outcome Models of Enteric Disease (PATHOME) Study is exploring how improvements in urban household and community living conditions influences the transmission of diarrheal and febrile enteric pathogens between infants, domestic animals, and their household and neighborhood environments. Our team integrates demographic, climate, behavioral, economic, built environment, spatial, zoonotic, and family health data into Bayesian and agent-based models that identify which interventions, alone or in combination, could best prevent infection by enteric viruses, bacteria, and parasites. This talk will discuss historical and contemporary global contributions to the control of enteric disease, introduce the PATHOME study design, and share several focused examples of how microbial community approaches can highlight global development and health systems priorities to improve child health.

To foster cross-disciplinary conversations about ongoing GEM-related research, the GEM Community hosts monthly Work-in-Progress talks during the fall & spring semesters. These informal science talks take place at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, located on UB's Downtown Campus. The speaker schedule for spring 2025 is available on the GEM website: www.buffalo.edu/gem.

We are actively seeking UB faculty, post-doc and student speakers for our GEM Work-In-Progress series! If you would like to present your work at a GEM Work-in-Progress session, please contact Sara Thomas at msthomas@buffalo.edu.

Sara Thomas
Email: msthomas@buffalo.edu