membership directory WORKING TOGETHER TO FIGHT INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The Emerging Pathogens Institutes has members that span among 11 different colleges and units at the University of Florida. With more than 250 distinguished faculty members, EPI supports the best minds. Biologists, epidemiologists, geographers, biostatisticians, mathematicians, physicians, veterinarians and other scientists create the strong collaborative spirit of EPI.
- Arboviruses
- Cholera
- COVID
- Foodborne diseases
- Respiratory viruses
- Genetics and human evolution
- Epigenetics
- Microbiome
- Psychosocial stress
- Complex disease
Calistus Ngonghala, PhD
Assistant Professor of Mathematical Biology
Mathematics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Ecology of poverty and disease
- Infectious disease modeling
- Nonlinear dynamical systems and chaos
- Pharmaceutical regulation
- Food safety controls
- Legal issues in public health
Michael Norris, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medical Geography in Global Health
Geography, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Bacterial infectious diseases
- Viral infectious diseases
- Molecular biology
- Next-generation sequencing
- Bacterial genetics
Chamteut Oh, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, College of Engineering
- Environmental engineering
- Genomic surveillance
- Disinfection
- Diagnostic assay
- Portable device
Robert Ossiboff, DVM, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor
Comparative, Diagnostic and Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Wildlife virology
- Aquatic virology
- Wildlife infectious disease
- Wildlife pathology
- Reptile and amphibian pathology
- HIV prevention
- Proteomics
- Systems biology
- Epigenetics
- Trained immunity
David Pascual, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean of Research & Graduate Studies
Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Brucellosis
- ETEC
- Neisseria
- Immunity
- Vaccines
Charles Peloquin, PharmD
Professor and Division Head
Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research, College of Pharmacy
- Tuberculosis
- Nontuberculous mycobacterial infections
- Pharmacokinetics
- Therapeutic drug monitoring