Urban Disease Ecology
Anna C. Peterson
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In the News:

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Talking about New Orleans rats with NSF Radio360: ​​Weather or Not!

The CNH p​roject featured in The Atlantic CityLab:
What Post-Katrina New Orleans taught us about urban rats

NSF Discovery: Where do rats move after disasters? We find out!

The BBC discusses the spread of the amphibian chytrid pathogen: The race to stop a global killer

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PicturePhoto credit: B. Ghersi, Tulane University
I recently received my PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I am particularly interested in working at the intersection of ecological and human communities. Many of us are aware how human actions can influence the natural environment around us, though less often do we think about how ecological communities feedback to influence our own well-being. I find pathogens, many of which can be transmitted between humans and non-human species, a particularly compelling piece of that puzzle.

My PhD research was focused in New Orleans where, a
long with a large team of multi-disciplinary researchers, I worked to understand how a relatively novel form of landscape change (urban abandonment) may influence rodent communities. I also sought to understand how human actions to manage urban abandonment may influence the risk of rodent-borne pathogens. 



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