Government subsidies could be key to containing hospital-born infections
April 3, 2019 ・ Morgan KellyHealth care-associated infections — illnesses that people contract while being treated in a hospital or other health care facility — sicken millions of people each year and cost billions of dollars in additional treatment. While there has been some improvement…
Urban Population, Transportation Patterns Affect How Flu Epidemics Play Out
October 8, 2018 ・ Morgan KellyThe more people a city has and the more organized its residents’ movement patterns, the longer its flu season is apt to last, new research co-authored by Princeton University researchers shows. Published in the journal Science, the findings are an important step toward predicting…
Undergrads exhibit semester research for “Disease Ecology, Economics and Policy”
December 19, 2017Students in the course “Disease Ecology, Economics and Policy” gathered in the Guyot Atrium Dec. 14 to present their semester research projects on the emergence and spread of disease.
PEI Faculty Seminar Series Video: Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Childhood Infectious Disease
November 17, 2015 ・ Igor Heifetz“Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Childhood Infectious Disease: Predictability and the Impact of Vaccination” by Bryan Grenfell, Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School. Violent epidemics of childhood infections such as measles…
Dolphin-Disease Outbreak Shows How to Account for the Unknown When Tracking Epidemics
December 4, 2015 ・ Morgan Kelly, Office of CommunicationsStopping the outbreak of a disease hinges on a wealth of data such as what makes a suitable host and how a pathogen spreads. But gathering these data can be difficult for diseases in remote areas of the world, or…
Ebola Outbreak of 2014 May Have Laid Tracks for Deadly Measles Epidemic in Africa
March 13, 2015 ・ Morgan Kelly, Office of CommunicationsThe Ebola outbreak that has swept West Africa since 2014 may have cleared the way for a more familiar killer that could claim thousands of more lives — measles.
FACULTY HONOR: Grenfell Named to Board of Governors of the Wellcome Trust
July 14, 2014 ・ Igor HeifetzBryan Grenfell, the Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, has joined the Board of Governors of the Wellcome Trust, effective September. The Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation focused on improving human…
Study Shows Significant Increase in Antibiotic Use Across the World
July 10, 2014 ・ Wendy Plump for the Princeton Environmental InstituteGlobal use of antibiotics is surging according to Princeton University researchers who have conducted a broad assessment of antibiotic consumption around the world. The study, “Global Trends in Antibiotic Consumption, 2000-2010,” found that worldwide antibiotic use has risen a staggering…
Class Snapshot: ‘Disease Ecology, Economics and Policy’
January 12, 2012 ・ Carol PetersThe course “Disease Ecology, Economics and Policy” focuses on global health, combining insights from epidemiology, biology and economics to explore how these influence policy. Ramanan Laxminarayan (above left), a research scholar in the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) and a lecturer…
