(FOA)-Ecology
and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID); November 20,
2019
Agency
National
Science Foundation
National
Institutes of Health
National
Institute of Food and Agriculture
United
Kingdom Research and Innovation
U.K.
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Natural
Environment Research Council
U.K.
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 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
19-592
Closing
Date:
November
20, 2019
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19592/nsf19592.htm
Contact
Information
Katharina
Dittmar
(703)
292-7799