Achievements

Working with public health officials in Dominica to try to understand what happened, after efforts to contain the virus by isolating febrile patients from mosquitoes with bed nets so they could not infect mosquitoes, and also treating houses with insecticide to kill any mosquitoes that the patient may have already infected failed, and the epidemic moves through the Caribbean and onto the mainland.

Program aims to establish the first world-wide research and training program in Evolutionary Medicine and to set the agenda for this rapidly developing field.