Liberal Arts and Sciences
Quantitative Disease Ecology & Conservation Lab (QDEC Lab)
Led by Sadie J. Ryan · Geography
What we study
The lab studies how climate, vectors, and human activity affect diseases like West Nile virus. They use field data, computer models, and collaborations to predict outbreaks and improve public health.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Computational
- Other insects
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 3
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
NSF Center for Analysis and Prediction of Pandemic Expansion (APPEX)
A project to predict and manage pandemic spread using data and modeling.
Wellcome Trust TACTIC: HealTh ImpAct ToolkIt for Climate Change Attribution
Developing tools to assess climate change's role in disease outbreaks.
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NSF CIBR VectorByte: A Global Informatics Platform for studying the Ecology of Vector-Borne Diseases
Contributes to VectorByte, a global data and tools platform for studying the ecology of mosquito-, tick- and other vector-borne diseases.
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Recent papers, explained
- Management Implications of Shifting Culex quinquefasciatus West Nile Virus Transmission Suitability in Florida
2026 · Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
Maps West Nile virus transmission risk in Florida using climate and population data.
- Key Challenges and future research, education, and policy questions in One Health
2026 · BioScience
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- Calling for a GeoHealth Decadal Survey: Accelerating Solution‐Oriented Research and Applications to Address Environmental and Health Problems
2026 · GeoHealth
Proposes a GeoHealth Decadal Survey to guide research and policy for environmental health.
- The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases
2026 · Nature
Examines how social and environmental factors shape outbreak risks of infectious diseases.
- Navigating global health futures under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
2026 · The Lancet Planetary Health
Creates health-focused narratives for future socioeconomic scenarios in the SSPs.
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