• Senior Fellow, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy. Washington, DC (Jul 2007 - present)
• Professor, Department of Biology & Associate Director for Disease Ecology, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida (Jul 2007 - Oct 2011)
• Staff Scientist, Fogarty International Center, NIH (Nov 2003 - Jul 2007)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine (Nov 1999 - Nov 2003)
• Postdoctoral scientist. The Biology of Small Populations. University of Maryland, College Park (Aug 1998 - Nov 1999)
• PhD Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University (1998)

Projects & Collaborators

• The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP)
• Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, & Policy (CDDEP)
• The Human Mobility Mapping Project (THuMMP)
• Malaria Elimination Group
• Clinton Health Access Initiative, Malaria
• Extending the Cure

Malaria epidemiology

(Full list on Google Scholar)

New / Noteworthy

• The stability of malaria elimination. Science. [PDF] 
• A systematic review of mathematical models of mosquito-borne pathogen transmission: 1970–2010. J Roy Soc Interface.
• Global mapping of infectious disease Phil Trans Roy Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 
• Quantifying the impact of human mobility on malaria. Science.

Malaria Atlas Project (MAP)

• A long neglected world malaria map: Plasmodium vivax endemicity in 2010. PLoS NTD.
• A new world malaria map: Plasmodium falciparum endemicity in 2010. Malaria Journal.
• Climate change and the global malaria recession. Nature. 

Malaria: Transmission Dynamics & Control

• Hitting Hotspots: Spatial Targeting of Malaria for Control and Elimination. PLoS Medicine. [PDF]
• Ross, Macdonald and a theory for the dynamics and control of mosquito-transmitted pathogens. PLoS Pathogens. [PDF]
• Wind direction and proximity to larval habitats determines malaria risk in Kiliffi, Kenya. Nature Communications. [PDF]
• Modelling the global constraints of temperature on transmission of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax at high temporal and spatial resolution. Parasites & Vectors. [PDF]
• A quantitative analysis of transmission efficiency versus intensity for malaria. Nature Communications. [PDF]
• Predicting changing malaria risk following expanded insecticide treated net coverage in Africa. Trends in Parasitology. [PDF]
• Measuring malaria endemicity from intense to interrupted transmission. The Lancet, Infectious Diseases. [PDF]
• Revisiting the basic reproductive number for malaria and its implications for malaria control. PLoS Biology. [PDF]
• The entomological inoculation rate and Plasmodium falciparum infection in African children. Nature. [PDF]

Malaria: Elimination (Malaria Elimination Group, MEG)

• Resurgent malaria:a systematic review and assessment of its causes. Malaria Journal. [PDF]
• Solving the Sisyphean problem of malaria in Zanzibar. Science. [PDF, fulltext] (Note: free access to the article from here).
• A research agenda for malaria eradication: modeling. PLoS Medicine. [PDF, MalERA]
• Ranking of elimination feasibility in malaria endemic countries. The Lancet. [PDF]
• Operational strategies to achieve and maintain malaria elimination. The Lancet. [PDF]

Malaria: Movement & Spatial Dynamics (THuMMP)

• The use of census migration data to approximate human movement patterns across temporal scales. PLoS One.
• Human movement data for malaria control and elimination strategic planning. Malaria J.
• International population movements and regional Plasmodium falciparum malaria elimination strategies. Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA. [PDF]
• Travel risk, malaria importation, and malaria transmission in Zanzibar. Scientific Reports. [PDF]

Malaria: Evolution of Antimalarial Drug Resistance

• Superinfection and the evolution of resistance to antimalarial drugs. Proc Roy Soc Lond B Biol Sci.
• Prospective strategies to delay the evolution of antimalarial drug resistance: Weighing the uncertainty. Malaria Journal. [PDF]
• Benefits of using multiple first-line therapies against malaria. Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA. [PDF]
• Will a Global Subsidy of New Antimalarials Delay the Emergence of Resistance and Save Lives? Health Affairs. [PDF]

Flu

• The Potential for Respiratory Droplet–Transmissible A/H5N1 Influenza Virus to Evolve in a Mammalian Host. Science. 
• Synchrony, waves, and spatial hierarchies in the spread of influenza. Science. [PDF]

Antibiotic Resistance

• "One-size-fits-all?" Optimizing treatment duration for bacterial infections. PLoS One. [PDF]
• In-roads to the spread of antibiotic resistance: Regional patterns of microbial transmission in northern coastal Ecuador. J Roy Soc Interface. [PDF]
• Extending the Cure. [Website, PDF, Chapter 2]
• Strategic interactions in multi-institutional epidemics of antibiotic resistance. Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA. [PDF]
• Persistent colonization and the spread of antibiotic resistance in nosocomial pathogens: resistance is a regional problem. Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA. [PDF]
• Agricultural antibiotics and human health: Does antibiotic use in agriculture have a greater impact than hospital use? PLoS Medicine. [PDF]
• Animal antibiotic use has an early but important impact on the emergence of antibiotic resistance in human commensal bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA. [PDF]

Cholera Dynamics

• Estimating the reproductive numbers for the 2008-2009 cholera outbreaks in Zimbabwe. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. [PDF]
• "Hyperinfectious" cholera: A critical element in the ability of V. cholerae to cause epidemic disease. PLoS Medicine. [PDF]

Rabies Dynamics

• Host and viral ecology determine bat rabies seasonality and persistence. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. [PDF]
• A priori prediction of disease invasion dynamics in a novel environment. Proc Roy Soc Lond, B, Biol Sci. [PDF]
• Assessing the role of long-distance translocation and spatial heterogeneity in the raccoon rabies epidemic in Connecticut. Prev Vet Med. [PDF]
• Predicting the spatial dynamics of rabies epidemics on heterogeneous landscapes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. [PDF]

Staphylococcus aureus & MRSA

• Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in outpatients, United States, 1999-2006. Emerging Infectious Diseases. [PDF]
• Hospitalizations and deaths caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, United States, 1999-2005. Emerging Infectious Diseases. [PDF]

Ecology of Infectious Diseases

• Co-evolutionary hot and cold spots of selective pressure move in space and time. Journal of Ecology.