(FOA)
NSF - Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID); November 21, 2018
Agency
National
Science Foundation (NSF)
Description
The
multi-agency Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program supports
research on the ecological, evolutionary, and social principles and processes
that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The central
theme of submitted projects must be 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 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 freshwater 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, modelers, ecologists, bioinformaticians, genomics researchers, social
scientists, economists, 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
18-581
Closing
Date:
November
21, 2018
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18581/nsf18581.htm
Contact
Information
Katharina
Dittmar
(703)
292-7799