Scott Berry
University of Kentucky, KY·Public Health & Epidemiology
New disease-causing microbes can spread widely before anyone notices. Environmental surveillance offers an early warning: instead of testing people one by one, it looks for pathogens in environmental samples such as those collected from shared spaces.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Engineering
Microbiology & Immunology
- Topics
environmental surveillance
pathogen detection
emerging pathogens
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2031
What they work on
- Design portable, easy-to-use environmental surveillance devices that detect pathogens in environmental samples, so that monitoring can be deployed cheaply across many settings.
- Develop new environmental surveillance and genome sequencing methods to discover and monitor emerging pathogens in environmental samples.
- Model disease transmission using environmental surveillance data to improve prediction of pathogen spread.
- Build local surveillance capacity with partners in low-resource communities through participatory science, and communicate surveillance data in ways that support public health action.
More about the research
This grant funds the Pandemic Environmental Surveillance Center for Assessing Pathogen Emergence (Pandemic ESCAPE), whose goal is timely detection of emerging pathogens using surveillance that is cheap and easy to set up across many settings in the United States.
Why it matters
Cheap, simple environmental surveillance could help public health agencies and communities spot emerging pathogens earlier and respond before outbreaks grow. By building tools with low-resource communities and public health partners, the center aims to make pathogen monitoring available to places that currently lack it.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Fuqing Wu
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX·Public Health & Epidemiology
Build models that connect how virus levels change inside one infected person with how the virus passes between people, so that SARS-CoV-2 levels in wastewater can be read as measures of community transmission.
Lauren Gardner
Johns Hopkins University, MD·Public Health & Epidemiology
Develop an integrated mathematical framework that couples mechanistic models of infectious disease transmission with economic models of individual decision-making, so that behavior responds to the epidemic state and to policies.
Amy Wesolowski
Johns Hopkins University, MD·Public Health & Epidemiology
Collect and standardize many human mobility datasets gathered by different methods, and statistically describe how movement varies at individual, household, community and larger scales.
The school
University of Kentucky: 34 labs on PI Pages, $528M a year on research, 319 research doctorates a year.
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