contact information

Daniel J. Becker
PhD Candidate
Odum School of Ecology
University of Georgia

physical address
Odum School of Ecology
140 E. Green Street
Athens, GA 30602-2202

email
dbecker@uga.edu

about me

I am a PhD student at the University of Georgia, where I am advised by Drs. Sonia Altizer and Daniel Streicker in the Odum School of Ecology. I received my BA from Bard College, where I studied anthropology and social dimensions of infectious diseases. I retain this perspective in my doctoral research on how supplemental feeding of wildlife alters host–pathogen interactions, how human-driven resource shifts of vampire bats influence rabies spread, and on merging social epidemiology and disease ecology frameworks. My general interests revolve around integrating field studies with mathematical models to understand and predict how human activities influence the dynamics of pathogen transmission and human risk. 
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