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What happens when we pass human diseases to animals?

UF medical geographer Sadie Ryan makes the case that we need to better study human-to-wildlife viral transmission factors to better understand "spillback" events. How do we know when spillback will threaten species conservation — or fuel the next pandemic?

Natural disasters, stress and health

UF mathematician Burton Singer contributed to a conceptual framework that can link physiological factors related to stress with negative health outcomes following natural disasters.

Tracking coronavirus in wastewater

UF researchers track COVID-19 trends in an island community’s wastewater. The approach has broad implications as a public health surveillance tool.