Daniel Streicker
Wildlife Ecologist | Combating Emerging Infectious Diseases
About
Daniel Streicker is a wildlife ecologist and epidemiologist whose research focuses on zoonotic diseases - illnesses that spread between animals and humans. As a Fellow at the Odum School of Ecology, he combines field studies and computational modeling to understand how factors like climate change, habitat loss, and wildlife trade influence disease transmission.
Streicker's work has been published in leading scientific journals and featured in outlets like The New York Times and National Geographic. His keynotes provide audiences with science-backed strategies for mitigating the growing threat of pandemics.
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What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics
Could we anticipate the next big disease outbreak, stopping a virus like Ebola before it ever strikes? In this talk about frontline scientific research, ecologist Daniel Streicker takes us to the Amazon rainforest in Peru where he tracks the movement of vampire bats in order to forecast and prevent rabies outbreaks. By studying these disease patterns, Streicker shows how we could learn to cut off the next pandemic at its source.
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