PERI

Plague Ecosystem Resilience to Intervention (2016-2018).

PERI was a collaboration between Oslo and Minnesota, with Susan Jones and Marlene Zuk. We investigated the ecosystem-scale plague interventions of the former USSR, using archival works, interviews with Soviet plague researchers, and Russian sources. 

Susan and Marlene were great to work with, and the topic of the paper is highly relevant - as society, our initial response seems to be that we want to eradicate diseases, while control seems to be a far more effective avenue.

A figure showing a horizontal timeline from 1930 to 1980, with text boxes describing events
A timeline for the perspective shift from eradicating the plague to controlling it.
Jones, S.D. et al. (2019). Living with plague: Lessons from the Soviet Union’s antiplague system, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(19), pp. 9155–9163.
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My background is in theoretical biology, and I have specialized in the analysis and modelling of the evolution, epidemiology and ecology of infectious diseases. At Wageningen University, I work on diseases that move between wildlife, livestock and humans.