Postdoctoral Fellow
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States
Dr. Ward is an infectious disease biologist and epidemiologist specializing in emerging pathogens, zoonotic spillover events, and how best to prevent them. He is currently a T32 funded Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Climate Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Ward earned his MSPH and PhD from the Department of Tropical Medicine at Tulane, where his work focused on the emergence of and serologic diagnostics for Zika virus. He then trained as a UJMT NIH Fogarty Global Health Fellow based at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru where he worked on an improved genotyping method to look for associations between T. cruzi genotype, species, and geographical location in the context of an ongoing large longitudinal cohort study of Chagas disease progression. Prior to joining Mount Sinai Dr. Ward was funded by a Pacific Southwest CDC Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases training grant and NASA/USRA to develop high-resolution environmentally informed forecast models for West Nile virus (WNV) in the Coachella Valley of California using remote sensing data. At Mount Sinai Dr. Ward's work focuses on arboviral transmission modeling as well as modeling the effects of the environment on disease progression and pathology.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025
2:39 PM – 2:51 PM AST