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Texas State research addresses diverse impacts of the environment on health One Health paradigm and research at Texas State Recognizing that human health, animal health, and ecosystem health are inextricably linked, One Health seeks to promote, improve, and defend the health and well-being of all species by enhancing cooperation and collaboration between physicians, veterinarians, other scientific health and environmental professionals and by promoting strengths in leadership and management to achieve these goals. By its own nature this concept requires interdisciplinary research across several fields. Three examples of Texas State University laboratories that embody this paradigm are presented here. Research topics at Dr. Rohde’s laboratory include: Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs), especially MRSA; Rabies; Public health and clinical microbiology; Diabetes; Hematology; Immunohematology (blood bank); Clinical Chemistry; and, Medical Laboratory diagnostics, including education. Sample publications • Pérez, E., Uyan, B., Rohde, R.E., Wehbe-Janek, H., Hochhalter, A.K., & Fenton, S.H. Assessing Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections Prevention Interventions in Intensive Care Units: A Discrete Event Simulation Study (MDM-15-226). IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 2017 (In Press) • Rohde, R.E., Felker, M., Regan, J. et al. Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI): The Perfect Storm has Arrived! Invited Focus Series. Clin Lab Sci Winter 2016;29(1):28-31. • Griffith, James T. and Rohde, R.E. Ebola: Implications for the Clinical Laboratory. December 2014; Clin Lab Sci :1-6. • Bonny Mayes, MA; Pamela J. Wilson, MEd; Ernest H. Oertli, DVM, PhD, DACVPM; Patrick R. Hunt, BS; Rodney E. Rohde, PhD, MS. Epidemiology of rabies in bats in Texas, 20012010. J Am Vet Med Assoc 2013;243:1129–1137. Dr. Rodney Rohde Sample grants 2015 – 2016, Co-PI, R.E. Rohde (CLS), Texas State MIRG, Examination of Upper Threshold Events on the Necrobiome associated with Human Decomposition in a Sub tropic Ecosystem, PI Dr. Danny Wescott, FARF and Co-PI Dr. Ken Mix, Agriculture. Amount: $25,000.00 Dr. F. Benjamin Zhan Dr. Benjamin Zhan’s group employs a geospatial data science approach to: (1) examine how adverse environmental conditions may impact human health, and (2) develop spatially informed strategy to reduce environmental health disparities. Sample publications • Brender, JD; Shinde, MU; Zhan, FB; Gong, X; Langlois, PH. 2014. Maternal Residential Proximity to Chlorinated Solvent Emissions and Birth Defects in Offspring: A CaseControl Study. Environmental Health 13: 96 • Zhang, C; Yang, J; Zhan, FB; Gong, X; Brender, JD; Langlois, PH; Barlowe, S; Zhao, Y. 2016. A Visual Analytics Approach to Identifying Risk Factors for Birth Defects in High Dimensional Environmental Health Data. In Proceedings of IEEE PacificVis 2016, Taipei, Taiwan, April 19–22, 2016 Grants •Air Pollution-Exposure-Health Effect Indicators: Mining Massive Geographically-Referenced Environmental Health Data to Identify Risk Factors for Birth Defects (2011-2015), Funded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Program (PI: F. Benjamin Zhan; Co-PIs: Jean D. Brender, Jing Yang, and Peter H. Langlois) http://onehealth.grforum.org/about/about-one-health/ Funding sources for current and past projects at Texas State The research at the Disease Ecology laboratory concentrates on the ecological interactions of the host pathogen interface and mechanistics of zoonotic disease transmission. Currently, my team is addressing the ecology of hantaviruses, tripanosomes, Borrelia spp. and Leptospira. Dr. Ivan Castro-Arellano Sample publications • Aleman A., et al. 2017. Prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi, the Causal Agent of Chagas Disease, in Texas Rodent Populations. EcoHealth. doi: 10.1007/s10393-017-1205-5 • Feria-Arroyo, T. P., et al. 2014. Implications of climate change on the distribution of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis and risk for Lyme disease in the Texas-Mexico transboundary region. Parasites and Vectors 7:199. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-7-199 • Suzán, G., et al. 2015. Metacommunity and phylogenetic structure determine wildlife and zoonotic infectious disease patterns in time and space. Ecology and Evolution, 5:865873. Grants • 2015-2017 ($386,463) NIH R21 (PA13-303). Population genetic structure of Ixodes scapularis and disease transmission. • 2014-2015 ($101,793) USDA-ARS. Sub award project: Possible role of invasive Herpestes javanicus in sustaining cattle fever tick populations in Puerto Rico.