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Safe Drinking Water in Bangladesh

Led by A/Prof. Yann Boucher, this project studies how polluted water affects the gut microbiome and health of residents in Mathbaria, Bangladesh.

Microclimate and Mosquitoes

Climate change and human activities are reshaping landscapes worldwide, creating new environments that influence the distribution and behavior of disease vectors.

SENSOR: implications for surveillance and control

SENSOR: Socioecological dynamics of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases in changing landscapes. Landscape changes, such as deforestation, can increase …

Discursive trends in global and environmental health

The team has conducted projects that examine discursive trends in global and environmental health, such as the interplay between health security…

Research Project: Drones

With a strong emphasis on harnessing technology, our team actively explores innovative applications in infectious disease research. Beyond novel approaches such as camera trapping and acoustic monitoring, we integrate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to generate high-resolution spatial data that directly inform our research objectives. As part of the SENSOR project, UAVs are deployed alongside entomological sampling to produce high resolution habitat maps of vector breeding grounds within forested regions in Malaysian Borneo.

Health and Climate Policy (Thailand, HITAP)

Climate change poses significant risks to public health, necessitating the integration of environmental and climate data into health policy and decision-making processes. With HITAP, we will examine how climate and health data are used in cross-cutting policies and draw lessons from previously isolated, sector-specific policies. This approach will help to identify synergies and enhance coordination across health and climate policy frameworks, ultimately supporting more cohesive and effective policy action.

Land cover change and transmission of Ebola Virus and other zoonotic pathogens in Macenta, Guinea: integrating spatial and serological data to detect spillover risks

Climate change and human activities are reshaping landscapes worldwide, creating new environments that influence the distribution and behavior of disease vectors. Mosquito-borne diseases, transmitted by ectothermic animals, are adapting and evolving in response to these environmental changes…
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Links between climate, environment, and the human microbiome

The transmission of water-and-food-borne pathogens is often strongly influenced by climatic conditions. For example, there is seasonal variation in the incidence of water-and-food-borne gastrointestinal illnesses, with cases increasing as temperatures increase. However, many aspects of infectious disease…
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Marine environment biological monitoring using drone-based sampling.

In collaboration with the Singapore Marine Environment Sensing Network (MESN) aeronautics drone engineer Henrik Hesse (University of Glasgow in Singapore), and St John’s Island National Marine Laboratory Director Dr. Jani Tanzil, we are sampling buoys near St John’s Island and Chek Jawa with waterproof drones to monitor seasonal and climate-related population changes in aquatic bacterial pathogens…
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Planetary health biosignatures: algal blooms and the milky seas phenomena

The milky seas phenomena is a major mystery in microbiology. It occurs when vibrio bacteria patches of densities reaching 10⁸ bacteria per ml emit bioluminescence in huge patches (up to the size of Greenland) that can be seen from space for weeks on end…
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Effects of climate change on the etiology and incidence of vibriosis

Many aspects of infectious disease transmission are not well understood, especially for those which have environmental reservoirs. These pathogens and their transmission are often strongly influenced by climatic conditions, especially those that are waterborne and foodborne…
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