This $196,163 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) is funding a collaborative research project on developing advanced mathematical models to improve understanding and management of schistosomiasis transmission dynamics. The project is a collaboration between the University of Florida, University of Georgia, and University of Massachusetts, and aims to create innovative hybrid...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences, CFDA program 47.049 (Mathematical and Physical Sciences), supports research investigating how the transition from subsistence farming to cash crops impacts infectious disease transmission patterns in rural communities. The $500,000 award to Duke University's Office of Research Administration Division runs from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2028. The key products and services delivered under this...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $500,000 to Carleton College from October 1, 2022 through August 31, 2027 to develop a modeling framework for understanding parasite transmission dynamics. The project aims to link ecology, behavior, immunology and spatial/temporal variation to better predict the spread of helminth parasites through multiple host species, including fish-eating birds, copepods, and threespine stickleback...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $749,786 to the University of Florida to investigate the complex relationships between climate, agriculture, human behavior, and disease outbreaks during historical plague pandemics. The research project aims to reconstruct environmental and social factors that contributed to catastrophic infectious disease events through integrating mathematical models with archaeological and historical...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences, CFDA 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences, provides $265,000 in funding to the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The project aims to enhance mathematical models to investigate the influences of climate change on zoonotic disease transmission, or the transmission of infectious diseases from animals to humans. The research team will use...
This $170,566 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports the development and delivery of an innovative mathematical modeling framework to integrate public health policy, public opinion dynamics, and epidemic outcomes. The project aims to establish a detailed, integrated system that captures the complex feedback among public health policies, dynamic public opinions, and...
The University of Florida was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to study vector-borne disease dynamics in a lizard-malaria system in Puerto Rico. The research project, titled "CAREER: Heterogeneity in Lizard-Malaria Transmission: An Interdisciplinary Research and Educational Approach," integrates mathematical modeling and ecological experiments to understand how factors like individual...
This $130,064 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports collaborative research to develop new statistical algorithms for analyzing spatiotemporal data on vector-borne disease transmission, using dengue virus in Rio de Janeiro as a case study. The project aims to address methodological challenges in modeling complex, nonlinear, and partially-observed spatial-temporal systems, with the goal of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with the CFDA number 47.070, provides $174,544 to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) to develop an integrated geospatial framework using advanced machine learning techniques to map disease transmission risk for mosquito-borne illnesses in Southern Africa. The key products and services to be delivered under this 2-year award include:...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant of $246,620 awarded to The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will fund the development of novel mathematical models for Wolbachia-based strategies to control mosquito-borne diseases like dengue fever, malaria, chikungunya, and Zika. The multi-stage models will account for the complex transmission dynamics, spatial and temporal heterogeneity, and Wolbachia's biological...