James Hassell
jameshassell.bsky.social
James Hassell
@jameshassell.bsky.social
Wildlife veterinarian, disease ecologist, musician @Smithsonian @yalesph.bsky.social. Currently setting up https://www.ecosystemsfinancehealth.org/. Mostly to be found in 🇰🇪
📣 We’re hiring! 2-yr postdoc at Smithsonian’s NZCBI on an NSF-funded project with partners incl. Glasgow, RVC, Uganda MOH, Cary Institute. Focus: land use change, rodent movement, human-rodent contact, modeling disease risk, w/ plenty of fieldwork in Uganda. Details: tinyurl.com/SINSFR
April 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Reposted by James Hassell
Output of a collaborative project led by the Smithsonian and funded by @tidescommunity.bsky.social

A framework for ecologically and socially informed risk reduction before and after outbreaks of wildlife-borne zoonoses

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@ilri.org @livuni-ives.bsky.social
A framework for ecologically and socially informed risk reduction before and after outbreaks of wildlife-borne zoonoses
Despite increasing emphasis being placed on the inclusion of upstream ecological and social perspectives for zoonotic disease control, few guidelines …
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January 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Reposted by James Hassell
Just out: A framework for managing infectious diseases in rural areas in low- and middle-income countries in the face of climate change—East Africa as a case study

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@ilri.org @livuni-ives.bsky.social @jameshassell.bsky.social @pasteur.fr and others
January 31, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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NEW! 🌍🌡️ A really cool collaboration led by Katie Worsley-Tonks exploring how to manage shifting infectious disease risks in low-resource settings, with a focus on east Africa (because yes, we still have to do research on climate change and health... imagine that) 🧪😷 journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
January 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
3 postdoc positions @Yale with Ecosystems, Finance & Health to examine:

🦠 integrated solutions for diseases driven by climate/environmental change,
🏔️ conditions under which solutions can be scaled,
🏛️ impacts on financial decision-making for sustainable development.

More details tinyurl.com/efhh1
Hutchinson Fellow Applications | EFH
www.ecosystemsfinancehealth.org
January 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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❗3 year postdoc - deadline Feb 9th. Please get in touch with any questions
Please share widely!

We are recruiting a 3-year postdoc at the RVC to develop new methodology to infer epidemic dynamics from wild animal viromes sampled across changeable environments.

Further details: jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Feel free to reach out with any questions. Deadline Feb 9th
January 14, 2025 at 6:16 AM