The prompt for Writing Assignment 3 is available here. This assignment is due in class on Thursday, March 30.
Author: Dr. Drake
Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia
Supplementary reading
The following is the article, mentioned in class, in which the origin of the 2013-2015 West Africa Ebola epidemic was traced to Meliandou, Guinea. Everyone should read and be prepared to discuss in class.
Writing Assignment 2
The prompt for Writing Assignment 2 is available here. This assignment is due in class on Thursday, February 23.
Writing Assignment 1
The prompt for Writing Assignment 1 is available here. This assignment is due in class on Thursday, January 26.
Supplemental reading: Undiscovered bat hosts of filoviruses
As announced in class, the following article should be read in preparation for class on January 19. This is in addition to Chapter 3.
Mark Wilber: The role of pathogen load, disease transmission, and host resistance and tolerance in disease-induced amphibian extinctions
Visiting scientist Mark Wilber will lecture on “The role of pathogen load, disease transmission, and host resistance and tolerance in disease-induced amphibian extinctions” on January 16 at noon in the Odum School of Ecology. All students in the class are strongly encouraged to attend.
Lunch will be provided if you RSVP here by Thursday, January 12.
Syllabus
The course syllabus is available here.
Welcome to FYOS 1001
This is the course website for FYOS 1001: Ebola
Description. The 2013-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was a public health emergency of international concern. This event highlights the interconnections among clinical medicine, social forces and culture, government, poverty, and ecology that give rise to emerging infectious diseases. This seminar will study this event from multiple points of view. Students will consider how a multi-disciplinary perspective provides a richer understanding of the development of the epidemic. Students will investigate how social, ecological, and geographic conditions both created a context for the Ebola virus to emerge in West Africa and enabled sustained transmission. This event provides a focal point for considering the role of emerging infectious diseases in public health.
Instructor. Dr. Drake is a Professor in the Odum School of Ecology. He received his PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Notre Dame for work on the ecology of aquatic invasive species. Dr. Drake’s research tackles a wide range of questions in ecology and population dynamics, united by a common focus on data-driven analysis, quantitative methods, and computer-assisted modeling. During 2014 and 2015, Dr. Drake led a team of analysts to develop models of the ongoing West Africa Ebola epidemic in an effort to provide real time information that might assist decision-makers, policymakers, and other responders. For more information, see his website at http://daphnia.ecology.uga.edu/drakelab/.
Text
The main text to be used in this class is Ebola’s Message: Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2016), edited by Nicholas Evans, Tara Smith, and Maimuna Majumder. Additional readings will be assigned in class.
It can be purchased from Amazon here.