PhD, MPH

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Veterinary Pathobiology

Education

• BSc, Mahatma Phule Agricultural University, Pune, India
• PG Diploma, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
• MS, MPH, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA
• PhD , Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA

Research

I am broadly interested in spatially-enabled computational epidemiology of vector-borne and infectious diseases and applications of geospatial approaches for enhancing animal/public health. I extensively use Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote-sensing concepts in my research alongside geo-statistical, correlative modeling, and Bayesian approaches for understanding spatio-temporal dynamics of non-stationary epidemiological processes. Our current and prior research has identified important spatio-temporal patterns and spatial determinants for vector/water-borne zoonotic diseases from climatic, environmental, and socio-economic themes. Increasingly, my research strives to identify consistencies in complex meteorological variable associations with vector-borne diseases through the utilization of high-resolution ground-based and NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) datasets.

Research topics

Infectious disease; Computational Epidemiology; Bayesian Spatiotemporal Modeling; Climate Change; Geographic Information Science (GIS)

Teaching

• P_HLTH 3650 Introduction to Epidemiology
• P_HLTH 8420 Principles of Epidemiology
• V_PBIO 5558/8458 Veterinary Public Health
• V_PBIO 3650 Public Health Microbiology

Research and scholarly activity

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