Precision epidemiology to better prevent and control endemic and emerging diseases in livestock (ID Epi Seminar Series)

This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Beatriz Martinez Lopez, professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2. Register here.

Beatriz Martínez-López, D.V.M, M.P.V.M., Ph.D., is Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the Department of Medicine & Epidemiology, Veterinary School, UC Davis and Director of the Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance (CADMS) since January 2014, a recognized FAO Reference Center for Veterinary Epidemiology. She has more than 130 publications related with the development and implementation of quantitative methods such as epidemiological modeling, risk assessment, geostatistical methods or network analysis to unravel complex epidemiological problems at the wild-domestic-human interface. Currently, she is leading the development, implementation and validation of novel Big Data analytical and visualization tools and their integration into operational, web-based, user-friendly platforms such as the Disease BioPortal to more timely support animal health decisions.

Dr. Martínez-López currently teaches mostly graduate courses such as “Applied Epidemiology Problem solving”, “Concepts and Methods in infectious disease surveillance and control”, “Health and Ecological Risk Analysis” and “Spatial Epidemiology”. Those courses are mainly offered to students in the Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine (MPVM), the Master of Public Health (MPH) and the Graduate Group of Epidemiology (GGE), although other students from other graduate groups are also welcome. She currently mentors more than 16 graduate and undergraduate students and participates in several training and technology transfer activities with veterinary services or public health departments in many different countries annually.