Investigators

Dr. Andrew Park is a professor jointly appointed with the Odum School of Ecology and the Department of Infectious Diseases at the College of Veterinary Medicine, the University of Georgia. Dr. Park’s research includes predicting emerging infectious diseases, the ecology and evolution of host-parasite systems, and the mathematical and computer modeling of natural systems. His research is primarily motivated by field and laboratory data, which has led to inter-disciplinary research with veterinarians, virologists, geneticists, and ecologists. Dr. Park’s main research focus is on understanding how processes combine to shape patterns of disease at scales from amino acids to global populations. This has led to identifying optimal vaccination strategies, calibrating viral immune escape, and quantifying transmission potential using equine influenza and the use of avian influenza as a model system to study when zoonoses are more likely to establish via multiple cross-species transmission rather than direct adaptation.