We study how pathogens move among people, animals, and the environment — and how environmental surveillance can help us detect, understand, and prevent infectious disease.
Our work combines environmental microbiology, epidemiology, molecular methods, genomics, and quantitative modeling to understand pathogen circulation across human, animal, and environmental systems.
We develop and apply environmental sampling approaches to detect pathogens in wastewater, air, water, and other complex matrices.
We study how pathogens move among humans, animals, and shared environments, with a focus on zoonotic and emerging infections.
We combine environmental measurements with epidemiologic and genomic data to understand transmission, exposure, and population-level risk.
Environmental surveillance can reveal pathogen circulation that traditional clinical surveillance may miss. Our work asks not only whether pathogens can be detected in the environment, but what those measurements tell us about transmission, exposure, and public health action.