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Research Interests

Sarah is an Animal Population Ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Her research focuses on understanding how environmental change including climate and human-induced landscape change, is altering the transmission dynamics of zoonotic diseases and leading to human spillover. She co-leads workpackages investigating seasonal changes in disease-vector and wildlife and livestock hosts, focusing on three zoonotic infections: leptospirosis, scrub typhus and Kyasanur Forest Disease in India.

https://www.ceh.ac.uk/staff/sarah-burthe