Parviez Hosseini
Parviez Hosseini is an ecologist who uses his mathematical modeling skills to study the transmission dynamics of vector-borne pathogens. As Senior Research Fellow at EcoHealth Alliance (formerly Wildlife Trust), Parviez’s research focuses on emerging infectious diseases, like Chikungunya and Rift Valley fever, and their transmission paths.
Parviez’s work involves liaising with EcoHealth Alliance collaborators in Europe and the Indian Ocean region to obtain Chikungunya outbreak data, collating data on other vector borne disease, and modeling the risk of future spread of this and other vector-borne diseases. This data collection and modeling will allow EcoHealth Alliance to develop other aspects of the project, like modeling the economic cost of these diseases; assessing future trends due to climate change; and testing hypotheses on how seasonality, demography, vectorial capacity and herd immunity might affect disease incidences.
Parviez earned his B.S. in Applied Math - Biology from Brown University and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of California Santa Barbara. He conducted his postdoctoral research at the Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University, and at Princeton University.
Parviez’s research has been published in various prestigious journals such as American Naturalist, Ecology, Nature, and Ecological Modeling. He is the recipient of several fellowships including the NSF RTG/GRT Fellowship in Spatial Ecology at UCSB and a fellowship at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. He has served as a reviewer for American Naturalist, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Journal of Animal Ecology, PLoS Medicine, Population Ecology, and Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Publications include:
- Predators indirectly control vector-borne disease: linking predator-prey and host-pathogen models - Journal of the Royal Society
- Diversity and Composition of Viral Communities: Coinfection of Barley and Cereal Yellow Dwarf Viruses in California Grasslands - American Naturalist
- Pathogen-induced reversal of native dominance in a grassland community - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Seasonality and the dynamics of infectious diseases - Ecology Letters
- Seasonality and wildlife disease: How seasonal birth, aggregation and variation in immunity affect the dynamics of Mycoplasma gallisepticum in House Finches - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences
- Spatial Spread of an Emerging Infectious Disease: Conjunctivitis in House Finches - Seasonal Rates and Geographic Barriers - Ecology