EcoHealth Alliance scientists and its program partners continually publish research papers in peer-reviewed journals on varied wildlife, human and ecological health topics. Dive deeper into the science behind our work!

Publications

How Natural Resources Management Sectors Can Contribute To Reducing Emerging Infectious Diseases: The Example of Forest Ecosystems

One Health and planetary health research: leveraging differences to grow together

Orbivirus RNA in a Banana Serotine (Afronycteris nanus) Bat in the Republic of the Congo

Identification of the onchocerciasis vector in the Kakoi-Koda focus of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Behavioral–biological surveillance of emerging infectious diseases among a dynamic cohort in Thailand

Enhanced surveillance of monkeypox in Bas-Uélé, Democratic Republic of Congo: the limitations of symptom-based case definitions

Population dynamics and genetic connectivity in recent chimpanzee history

The Impact of Climate Change on Health: Reducing Risks and Increasing Resilience in the Era of COVID-19

Roads and forest edges facilitate yellow fever virus dispersion

Quantitative estimates of glacial refugia for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) since the Last Interglacial (120,000 BP)

Wild animal and zoonotic disease risk management and regulation in China: Examining gaps and One Health opportunities in scope, mandates, and monitoring systems

Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Regarding Zoonotic Risk in Wildlife Trade, Southern China

EcoHealth Alliance's Hotspots Map of Global Pandemic Risk

The future of zoonotic risk prediction

A strategy to assess spillover risk of bat SARS-related coronaviruses in Southeast Asia

Samples collected from wildlife in Thailand

Sequences of Previously Unknown Rhabdoviruses Detected in Bat Samples from the Republic of the Congo

Citizen science and online data: Opportunities and challenges for snake ecology and action against snakebite

Using MALDI‐TOF mass spectrometry to identify ticks collected on domestic and wild animals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Coronavirus surveillance in wildlife from two Congo basin countries detects RNA of multiple species circulating in bats and rodents

Ranking the risk of animal-to-human spillover for newly discovered viruses

Serum Biochemistry and Select Mineral Parameters of Pre-Release Sunda Pangolins Following Rehabilitation in Vietnam

Pharmacokinetics and Clinical Safety of a Sustained-Release Formulation of Ceftiofur Crystalline Free Acid in Ringneck Doves After a Single Intramuscular Injection

Biodiversity and Global Health: Intersection of Health, Security, and the Environment

Chimpanzees surviving in a fragmented high‐altitude forest landscape of the Congolese Albertine Rift

Recent genetic connectivity and clinal variation in chimpanzees

Will the COVID-19 outbreak be a turning point for China’s wildlife protection: New developments and challenges of wildlife conservation in China

Opportunities for Enhanced Defense, Military, and Security Sector Engagement in Global Health Security

The evolutionary history of manatees told by their mitogenomes

Wildlife Trade, Pandemics and the Law

Decoding the RNA viromes in rodent lungs provides new insight into the origin and evolutionary patterns of rodent-borne pathogens in Mainland Southeast Asia

Infectious Disease Threats: A Rebound To Resilience

The Critical Need for Integrating Natural History Collections in Infectious Disease Studies

Use of a Portable Analyzer for Venous Blood Gas and Biochemistry Analysis in Free-Ranging Indian Flying Foxes (Pteropus giganteus) in Myanmar

Farm-Level Risk Factors of Increased Abortion and Mortality in Domestic Ruminants during the 2010 Rift Valley Fever Outbreak in Central South Africa

Nipah virus dynamics in bats and implications for spillover to humans

The value proposition of the Global Health Security Index

COVID-19 Commission Statement on the Occasion of the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly

Possibility for reverse zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to free-ranging wildlife: A case study of bats

Origin and cross-species transmission of bat coronaviruses in China

Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention

Detection of first gammaherpesvirus sequences in Central African bats

Bat-borne virus diversity, spillover and emergence

Selected wetland soil properties correlate to Rift Valley fever livestock mortalities reported in 2009-10 in central South Africa

Detection of novel coronaviruses in bats in Myanmar

Patterns of Rift Valley fever virus seropositivity in domestic ruminants in central South Africa four years after a large outbreak

Escaping Pandora’s Box — Another Novel Coronavirus

Statement in Support of the Scientists, Public Health Professionals, and Medical Professionals of China Combatting COVID-19

A strategy to prevent future epidemics similar to the 2019-nCoV outbreak

Synergistic China-US Ecological Research Is Essential for Global Emerging Infectious Disease Preparedness

United States wildlife and wildlife product imports from 2000–2014

Characterizing and quantifying the wildlife trade network in Sulawesi, Indonesia

Molecular characterization of group A rotavirus from rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) at human–wildlife interfaces in Bangladesh

First evidence of a new simian adenovirus clustering with Human mastadenovirus F viruses

Population genetics of fruit bat reservoir informs the dynamics, distribution and diversity of Nipah virus

Transnational environmental crime threatens sustainable development

IDEEAL Final Report

Pangolins in global camera trap data: Implications for ecological monitoring

Critical Importance of a One Health Approach to Antimicrobial Resistance

Genetic variation of the most abundant forest‐dwelling rodents in Central Africa (Praomys jacksoni complex): Evidence for Pleistocene refugia in both montane and lowland forests

First Report of a Novel Hepatozoon in Giant Pandas

Transmission of Nipah Virus — 14 Years of Investigations in Bangladesh

An Ecological Framework for Modeling the Geography of Disease Transmission

Assessing health systems in Guinea for prevention and control of priority zoonotic diseases: A One Health approach

A viral metagenomic survey identifies known and novel mammalian viruses in bats from Saudi Arabia

Building Resilience to Biothreats

Bat Research Networks and Viral Surveillance: Gaps and Opportunities in Western Asia

Global Disease Outbreaks Associated with the 2015-2016 El Niño Event

Rift Valley fever exposure amongst farmers, farm workers, and veterinary professionals in Central South Africa

An ecosystem risk assessment of temperate and tropical forests of the Americas with an outlook on future conservation strategies

Living Safely with Bats

The Economic Case for a Pandemic Fund

One Health Operational Framework

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Antibodies in Dromedary Camels, Bangladesh, 2015

Pigs in Malaysia

Fatal swine acute diarrhea syndrome caused by an HKU2-related coronavirus of bat origin

Jon Epstein handles a collared bat in Bangladesh

Bat Research Takes Wing

Bats in the Night Sky

Serological Evidence of Bat SARS-Related Coronavirus Infection in Humans

The Global Virome Project

American bullfrog

Gene expression differs in susceptible and resistant amphibians exposed to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

Determinants of Pseudogymnoascus destructans within bat hibernacula: Implications for surveillance and management of white-nose syndrome

Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS Coronavirus

EcoHealth Alliance's Hotspots Map of Global Pandemic Risk

Global hotspots and correlates of emerging zoonotic diseases

Prevent, Prepare, and Respond: Economics of One Health to Confront Disease Threats

Host and viral traits predict zoonotic spillover from mammals

The Role of Environment in One Health and National Health Security

Rio Conventions Pavilion Bulletin

Infectious Disease Emergence and Economics of Altered Landscapes

Hotspots of canine leptospirosis in the United States of America

West Nile Virus in the British Virgin Islands

Global Spatial Analyses of Phylogenetic Conservation Priorities for Aquatic Mammals

EcoHealthNet Research Availability

Wildlife: The Need to Better Understand The Linkages

Avoiding catastrophes: seeking synergies among the public health, environmental protection, and human security sectors

One Health in Action

Review-Mapping Disease Transmission Risk: Enriching Models Using Biogeography and Ecology

Viral Diversity, Prey Preference, and Bartonella Prevalence

Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries

CITES: In Sickness and in Health?

Rift Valley Fever Booklet (English)

Rift Valley Fever Booklet (Afrikaans)

Economic growth, urbanization, globalization, and the risks of emerging infectious diseases in China: a review

Avoiding catastrophes: seeking synergies among the public health, environmental protection, and human security sectors

Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of a Mortality Event among Central African Great Apes

The Emerging Amphibian Fungal Disease, Chytridiomycosis: A Key Example of the Global Phenomenon of Wildlife Emerging Infectious Diseases

Bat Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Like Coronavirus WIV1 Encodes an Extra Accessory Protein

Nipah Virus Transmission from Bats to Humans Associated with Drinking Traditional Liquor Made from Date Palm Sap, Bangladesh

Wildlife Trade and Human Health in Lao PDR: An Assessment of the Zoonotic Disease Risk in Markets

Future Earth and EcoHealth: A New Paradigm Toward Global Sustainability and Health

Optimizing Viral Discovery in Bats

Bat-Hunting and Bat-Human Interactions in Bangladeshi Villages

Drivers for emerging issues in animal and plant health

Increased Morbidity and Mortality in Domestic Animals Eating Dropped and Bitten Fruit in Bangladeshi Villages: Implications for Zoonotic Disease Transmission

To Cull, or Not To Cull, Bat is the Question

Surveillance for Ebola Virus in Wildlife, Thailand

Joint Call for Employing a Transdisciplinary Approach to Emerging Infectious Diseases

Ebola Economics: The Case for an Upstream Approach to Disease Emergence

Molecular evidence of Ebola Reston virus infection in Philippine bats

Targeting Transmission Pathways for Emerging Zoonotic Disease Surveillance and Control

Connecting Global Priorities: Biodiversity and Human Health

Diversity of coronavirus in bats from Eastern Thailand

Macacine Herpesvirus 1 in Long-Tailed Macaques, Malaysia, 2009–2011

Spillover and pandemic properties of zoonotic viruses with high host plasticity

A National Blueprint for Biodefense: Leadership and Major Reform Needed to Optimize Efforts

Non-random patterns in viral diversity

Are bats really “special” as viral reservoirs? What we know and need to know

Global biogeography of human infectious diseases

Two Tickets to Paradise: Multiple Dispersal Events in the Founding of Hoary Bat Populations in Hawai’i

How resilient is the United States’ food system to pandemics?

Valuing a pandemic: Exploring trade-offs in rational risk-reduction

Climate Change and Health: Transcending Silos to Find Solutions

Bartonella spp. in a Puerto Rican Bat Community

Integrating invasion and disease in the risk assessment of live bird trade

Haematology and Plasma Biochemistry of Wild Black Flying Foxes in Queensland, Australia

Global Avian Influenza Surveillance in Wild Birds: A Strategy to Capture Viral Diversity

Envisioning a World without Emerging Disease Outbreaks

Climate Change and Health: Transcending Silos to Find Solutions

Global parasite and Rattus rodent invasions: The consequences for rodent-borne diseases

Influence of past and future climate changes on the distribution of three Southeast Asian murine rodents

Exposure-Based Screening for Nipah Virus Encephalitis, Bangladesh

Nycteria parasites of Afrotropical insectivorous bats

Reservoir Host Immune Responses to Emerging Zoonotic Viruses

Metacommunity and phylogenetic structure determine wildlife and zoonotic infectious disease patterns in time and space

One Health approach to use of veterinary pharmaceuticals

Evidence for henipavirus spillover into human populations in Africa

Economic optimization of a global strategy to address the pandemic threat

Serological Evidence of Henipavirus Exposure in Cattle, Goats and Pigs in Bangladesh

Pathogens, Pests, and Economics: Drivers of Honey Bee Colony Declines and Losses

Is One Health delivering results?

Dengue Virus in Bats from Southeastern Mexico

A New Approach for Monitoring Ebolavirus in Wild Great Apes

The Role of Landscape Composition and Configuration on Pteropus giganteus Roosting Ecology and Nipah Virus Spillover Risk in Bangladesh

Eight Critical Questions for Pandemic Prediction

Stability of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Milk

Parasite and viral species richness of Southeast Asian bats: Fragmentation of area distribution matters

Evidence for Retrovirus and Paramyxovirus Infection of Multiple Bat Species in China

MERS Coronavirus Quasispecies That Include Homologues of Human Isolates Revealed through Whole-Genome Analysis and Virus Cultured from Dromedary Camels in Saudi Arabia

Bird migration and avian influenza: A comparison of hydrogen stable isotopes and satellite tracking methods

Contrasting Patterns in Mammal-Bacteria Coevolution: Bartonella and Leptospira in Bats and Rodents

First Evidence of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus and Ranavirus in Hong Kong Amphibian Trade

Coccidian parasites of red squirrels and grey squirrels in England

Filoviruses in Bats: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

Ecological dynamics of emerging bat virus spillover

Isolation and characterization of a bat SARS-like coronavirus that uses the ACE2 receptor

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Bats, Saudi Arabia

A Strategy To Estimate Unknown Viral Diversity in Mammals

Diversity and endemism of Murinae rodents in Thai limestone karsts

Ebola Virus Antibodies in Fruit Bats, Bangladesh

Ecology of zoonoses: natural and unnatural histories

Prediction and prevention of the next pandemic zoonosis

Combined Mitochondrial and Nuclear Markers Revealed a Deep Vicariant History for Leopoldamys neilli, a Cave-Dwelling Rodent of Thailand

ID of a novel GB-like flavivirus from bats in Bangladesh

Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife – Threats to Biodiversity and Human Health

Henipavirus in fruit bats in India

Global trends in emerging infectious diseases

Bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses

The Human-Animal Link – Foreign Affairs