Dr. Houriiyah Tegally Receives Prestigious Grant to Investigate Climate Change’s Impact for CLIMADE
Dr. Houriiyah Tegally from the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University, has been awarded a significant grant by the Global Science Summit Programme of the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
Valued at 6.5 million Danish Krone, the grant will support her project, “Uncovering Climate Change Impacts on Arbovirus Transmission Dynamics at the Intersection of Phylodynamics, Ecological Modelling, and Machine Learning,” set to commence in February 2025.
This project is a CLIMADE collaboration between CERI, the Laboratory for Arboviruses and Hemorrhagic Viruses at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil, and the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford. Alongside Dr. Tegally, Dr. Marta Giovanetti from Fiocruz and Dr. Moritz Kraemer from the University of Oxford will work to investigate the complex relationship between climate change and the transmission of arboviruses, such as dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever.
The research will focus on two primary areas: uncovering the transmission dynamics and dispersal patterns of arboviruses in various outbreak settings, and mapping global transmission risks, including viral movement between endemic and non-endemic regions. By exploring these aspects, the project aims to predict future shifts in arboviral diseases across ecologically distinct regions in Latin America, Africa, and Europe—areas that are becoming increasingly connected through global human mobility.
Funder: Novo Nordisk Foundation
This news piece was published in the gem, February 2025
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News date: 2025-03-05
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