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White, Lauren

AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at USAID Office of HIV/AIDS, Systems and Program Sustainability Division

whit1951@umn.edu

Lauren White finished her Ph.D. in July of 2018 at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Ecology, Evolution  & Behavior where she  worked in the Craft and Forester lab groups. She completed her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and B.A. in Spanish in 2012 at the University of Virginia.

She is broadly interested in One Health—the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health—and its implications for the spread of disease. The goal of hrt dissertation research was to characterize how three different types of heterogeneity can alter individual infectiousness in domestic animal and wildlife populations: (1) host heterogeneity: variation in host behavior and susceptibility, (2) contact heterogeneity: sociality that affects community structure within populations, and (3) spatial heterogeneity: patchiness in resource and host density across a landscape.

Cohort: 2018

CV: 

cv_l._white_2018_08_29.pdf

Associated Projects: 

Pathogen spatial spread

Resources
Changing elemental cycles, stoichiometric mismatches, and consequences for pathogens of primary producers	Apr 23, 2021 Article published in OIKOS.
Bioaccumulation of Pathogen Exposure in Top Predators	Feb 04, 2021 Article published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
Lessons from movement ecology for the return to work: Modeling contacts and the spread of COVID-19	Jan 22, 2021 Article published in PLOS ONE.
Using host traits to predict reservoir host species of rabies virus	Dec 08, 2020 Article published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Genotype and sex-based host variation in behaviour and susceptibility drives population disease dynamics	Nov 11, 2020 Article published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Elements of disease in a changing world: modelling feedbacks between infectious disease and ecosystems	Oct 12, 2020 Article published in Ecology Letters.
Disease-mediated ecosystem services: Pathogens, plants, and people	Jun 15, 2020 Article published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
A mechanistic, stigmergy model of territory formation in solitary animals: Territorial behavior can dampen disease prevalence but increase persistence	Jun 11, 2020 Article published in PLOS Computational Biology.
Modeling the Justinianic Plague: Comparing hypothesized transmission routes	Apr 30, 2020 Article published in PLOS One.
Trade-Offs with Telemetry-Derived Contact Networks for Infectious Disease Studies in Wildlife	Jan 23, 2020 Article published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Links: 

Website

Twitter (@LAWhite_Ecology)

Research Interest: 

Disease ecology