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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
What’s below the surface
For this core group of PHHP researchers, who are also members of UF’s Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology, Water Institute and Emerging…
Research day recap: responding to COVID in South…
The Emerging Pathogens Institute’s annual Research Day event celebrates pathogens research and the people who work in this critical academic space…
Wastewater health signals
University of Florida researchers are refining wastewater surveillance techniques—a public health tool dating to the 1940s—to monitor cities…
research briefs
Wastewater surveillance researchers identify…
For their study, the investigators, who are also members of UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute, evaluated population normalization factors, which…
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…
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…
