Global Change and Emerging Infectious Disease (EARTHSYS 114, EARTHSYS 214, EBS 213)

3 credits · Undergraduate

The changing epidemiological environment. How human-induced environmental changes, such as global warming, deforestation and land-use conversion, urbanization, international commerce, and human migration, are altering the ecology of infectious disease transmission, and promoting their re-emergence as a global public health threat. Case studies of malaria, cholera, hantavirus, plague, and HIV.