Kevin M. Bakker
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Why are Infectious Diseases Seasonal?

One of my broad research aims is to understand the seasonality of infectious diseases across the world. The portion of the work focused on US data was presented  at EEID (2014), ESA (2014), the ECSS (2015) and ESA (2015).  The global portion of this work is still in the data generation phase and should be completed this fall (2020)

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Right: Long term state-level population dynamics of childhood diseases (left column), a brief description of the disease (center column) and the peak epidemic timing across space (right column) for each disease.
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Below: Victoria (left) and Clare (right) presenting their findings at the annual UROP symposium in the spring of 2019. Clare examined global seasonality of influenza outbreaks from 1940-1975, while Victoria contrasted historical seasonality of malaria in SE Asia against modern dynamics.  
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Kevin Bakker
5116 School of Public Health II
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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Email: bakkerke (at) umich.edu
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