Dr. Alhelí Flores Ferrer has just arrived in Valdivia from Mexico to join the EPIWild team as a postdoc. The researcher, a mathematician by training and a PhD in biology, is a specialist in disease ecology with a focus on One Health. "My working tool is mathematics, and I have implemented SIR, R0 and spatial models. I am interested in understanding host-parasite relationships, in pathogen transmission risk assessment and in proposing and evaluating pathogen circulation mitigation strategies," she said.
The director of EPIwild, Dr. Gerardo Acosta, indicated that Dr. Flores will arrive to "collect spatial information of all the places where the bats and rodents were captured, characterizing the landscape to make distribution maps of both the species and the pathogens that are present with the objective of elaborating predictive maps that will help us understand the places with the highest risk of transmission of pathogens that may be of interest to public health.