Maria Ana Diuk-Wasser, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Departments & Organizations
Global Health Initiative: Infectious Diseases | Environmental Influences
School of Public Health: Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases: Diuk-Wasser Lab | Global Health
Research Interests
Environmental and ecological drivers of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases; Landscape epidemiology; Generation of spatio-temporal predictions of risk more...
Education
- Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, 2003
Selected Publications
- Diuk-Wasser, MA, Vourc’h, G, Cislo, P, Hoen, AG, Melton, F, Rowland, M, Cortinas, R, Hickling, GJ, Tsao, JI, Barbour, AG, Kitron, U, Piesman, J, and D Fish. Field and climate based model for predicting the density of host-seeking nymphal Ixodes scapularis, an important vector of tick-borne disease agents in the eastern United States. Global Ecol Biogeogr 19:504-514.
- Diuk-Wasser, MA, Molaei, G, Simpson, JE, Folsom-O’Keefe, CM, Armstrong, PM, and TG Andreadis. Avian communal roost as amplification foci for West Nile virus in urban areas in northeastern United States. Am J Trop Med Hyg, Feb 2010; 82: 337 - 343.
- Brinkerhoff, RJ, CM Folsom-O’Keefe, K Tsao, and MA Diuk-Wasser. 2009. Do birds affect Lyme disease risk? Range expansion of the vector-borne pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, doi:10.1890/090062
