FOA-Ecology
and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID); November 18,
2020
Agencies
National
Science Foundation
National
Institutes of Health
National
Institutes of Food and Agriculture
United
Kingdom Research and Innovation
U.K.
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Natural
Environment Research Council
UK
Economic and Social Research Council
UK
Engineering and Physical Science Research Council
United
States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
National
Natural Science Foundation of China
Description
The
multi-agency Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program supports
research on the ecological, evolutionary, and social drivers that influence the
transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The central theme of submitted
projects must be the quantitative or computational understanding of pathogen
transmission dynamics. The intent is discovery of principles of infectious
disease transmission and testing mathematical or computational models that
elucidate infectious disease systems. Projects should be broad,
interdisciplinary efforts that go beyond the scope of typical studies. They
should focus on the determinants and interactions of transmission among any
host species, including but not limited to humans, non-human animals, and/or
plants. This includes, for example, the spread of pathogens; the influence of
environmental factors such as climate; the population dynamics and genetics of
reservoir species or hosts; the feedback between ecological transmission and
evolutionary dynamics; and the cultural, social, behavioral, and economic
dimensions of pathogen transmission. Research may be on zoonotic,
environmentally-borne, vector-borne, or enteric pathogens of either
terrestrial or aquatic systems and organisms, including diseases of
animals and plants, at any scale from specific pathogens to inclusive
environmental systems. Proposals for research on disease systems of public
health concern to developing countries are strongly encouraged, as are disease
systems of concern in agricultural systems. Investigators are encouraged to
develop the appropriate multidisciplinary team, including for example,
anthropologists, modelers, ecologists, bioinformaticians, genomics researchers, social
scientists, economists, oceanographers, mathematical scientists,
epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, entomologists, parasitologists, microbiologists, bacteriologists,
virologists, pathologists or veterinarians, with the goal of integrating
knowledge across disciplines to enhance our ability to predict and control
infectious diseases.
Announcement
Number:
NSF
20-585
Closing
Date:
November
18, 2020,
Third
Wednesday in November, Annually Thereafter
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20585/nsf20585.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Contact
Information
Katharina
Dittmar,
Program
Director, NSF/BIO
703)
292-7799