Research A world-class research institute to facilitate interdisciplinary studies
With ongoing research in 30 countries across six continents, the Emerging Pathogens Institute believes in improving the quality and health of all seven billion lives that share our world.
Research purpose
Why Infectious Disease?
New and re-emerging diseases threaten tourism, health and economy, which are particularly vulnerable due to mild climate and diverse agriculture found in certain regions. Weather patterns, commercial plant imports and travel all have the potential to unwittingly carry pathogens from one country or state into another. The Emerging Pathogens Institute fuses key disciplines to develop research, education and outreach capabilities designed to preserve health and economy, and to prevent or contain new and re-emerging diseases.
Research features
Wastewater health signals
University of Florida researchers are refining wastewater surveillance techniques—a public health tool dating to the 1940s—to monitor cities…
The livestock-childhood gut health link
UF students and researchers address the links between intestinal pathogens, livestock, and children’s gut health.
Research day recap
From land to sea, EPI’s Research Day keynote talks featured recent leaps in pathogen research affecting people and the aquatic animal source foods…
research briefs
UF team receives CDC grant to improve modeling of…
New funding will help close gaps in infectious disease outbreak modeling.
City-dwelling mammals no likelier than wild…
UF medical geographer Sadie Ryan contributes to a global consortium’s effort to determine whether city-dwelling or wild mammals carry more viruses…
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…
Research Archive
Gut bacteria blocks and enhances virus
A new study published in Nature Microbiology reveals that bacteria present in different regions of the gastrointestinal tract either enhance or block…
Taking ebola’s measure
New research by EPI’s Burton Singer quantifies how civil disruption and violence has unraveled Ebola control measures in the Democratic Republic of…
Eggplant’s newest pathogenic fungus
A known pathogenic fungus, so far only reported to cause disease in two crops, has ensnared a third victim: eggplants. UF plant pathologists…
