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Mallory’s work on the impact of Cyclone Yaku on Peru’s 2023 dengue outbreak makes the news.

Mallory talks with Stanford Global Health about the role of perceived experts in spreading COVID-19 vaccine misinformation online.

Erin spoke in the Ifakara MasterClass on climate change and malaria transmission.

Eloise talks with Science magazine about the unprecedented 2022 outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in Australia.

Mallory’s class—-Pathogens and Populations: Representing Infectious Disease (co-developed with Alex Sherman)—-was profiled in the Stanford Report.

Mallory appeared on Michael Lewis’s podcast Against the Rules about the role of perceived ‘experts’ in spreading pandemic misinformation. About Mallory’s work to hold those knowingly spreading misinformation accountable, Michael says: “this is what bravery sounds like.”

Marta was interviewed on NPR’s Science Friday about why climate change may bring more West Nile virus to the US.

Erin and lab members Jamie Caldwell, Nicole Nova, and Devin Kirk presented in the Broad Institute’s Models, Inference, and Algorithms seminar on Impacts of Climate Change on Dengue Transmission.

7th grader Camille Chu interviewed Mordecai lab PhD student Mallory Harris for an incredible video she made on the threats climate change poses to human health.

More coverage of our research on climate change and vector-borne disease in Forbes, Down to Earth, and The Hill.

We followed up on our New York Times editorial essay with an op-ed in the Guardian on whether we will ever reach herd immunity.

Elle was interviewed on the podcast This Week in Virology (around minute 56) about her new paper in eLife, with Morgan Kain, on assessing physiological and ecological competence of hosts and vectors for Ross River virus.

Erin appeared on NowThis / Discovery+ Earth Day special Action Planet: Meeting the Climate Challenge, discussing the threat of climate change for human disease. The show featured Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland, former Vice President Al Gore, White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Mallory and Erin hosted a panel on The Science of Herd Immunity, sponsored by the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences and School of Medicine, with panelists Drs. Lauren Ancel Meyers, Marc Lipsitch, Julie Parsonnet, and Rustom Antia, which 888 people attended! View the video on the Stanford H&S YouTube channel here. We published a New York Times editorial essay on the science of herd immunity following up on this event.

Mallory collaborated with Profs. Joshua Weitz and Clio Andris at Georgia Tech to create the COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment tool, which shows the current COVID-19 infection risk level across the U.S. for an event of any given size. This tool was covered in Scientific American and WSOC-TV9.

Undergraduate Tejas Athni and other students in Erin’s Bio 2N class (Spring 2019) published a paper on how vector-borne diseases have shaped the course of human history, which was highlighted in Stanford News.

Erin was part of the Democracy Matters panel on September 22, 2020 discussing the impact of social distancing on COVID-19. This highlighted our new paper on Chopping the tail: How preventing superspreading can help to maintain COVID-19 control.

Erin gave the MIDAS Network COVID-19 Modeling Webinar on May 1, 2020 about the lab’s work: preprint, summary, and code.

Erin did a series of interviews for the Harvard edX course on The Health Effects of Climate Change with Ari Bernstein.

Erin’s undergraduate class made a short documentary video about writing a paper on the environmental and social drivers and consequences of Zika in the Americas. This undergraduate research experience was covered in Stanford News, Scope, and Reddit Ask Me Anything: Zika. Check out the published article in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases too.

Press and blogs covered our research on climate change and mosquito-borne disease: Stanford News, The Scientist, The Bio Report Podcast, NBC News Bay Area, National Public Radio.

Marta recorded a podcast about effects of climate change on Ross River virus in Australia, based on her published article in eLife.

And let’s not forget Lisa’s fabulous rendition of Kendrick Lamar’s DNA (Borrelia style).

High school summer researcher Sandhya Kalavacherla interviewed Erin for an article about the bright spots and barriers for women in science, technology, engineering, and math.