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 200 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.
Apichai Tuanyok, PhD.
Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Melioidosis
- Glanders
- Burkholderia
- Phage
- SARS-CoV-2
- Plant pathology
- Disease management
- Epidemiology
- Microbial ecology
- Plant-microbe interactions
Denis Valle, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Bayesian statistics
- Tropical forests
- Land-use land-cover
- Malaria epidemiology
- Modeling
Ariena Van Bruggen, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Microbial ecology
- Epidemiology
- Organic agriculture
- One health
- Risk modeling
- Arbovirology
- Planetary Health
- Alphaviruses
Heather Walden, MS, PhD
Associate Professor
Comparative, Diagnostic and Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Parasitology
- Zoonotic parasites
- Rat lungworm
- Invasive parasites
- Clostridioides difficile infection
- Fecal microbiota transplant
- HIV drug resistance
- HCV drug resistance
- Gut microbiome
- Ecology & evolution of infectious disease
- Virus evolution
- Global health
- Climate change and infectious disease
Jim Wellehan, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor
Comparative, Diagnostic, and Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Pathogen discovery
- Pathogen ecology and evolution
- Wildlife diseases
Drew Westmoreland, MSPH, PhD
Assistant Professor
Epidemiology, College of Pubic Health and Health Professions; College of Medicine
- HIV/STIs
- Sexual health
- LGBTQIA+ health disparities
- Behavioral epidemiology
- Alcohol and substance use