Principal Investigator

Jason Rohr, Associate Professor
University of South Florida
Education: Binghamton University
Degree: PhD
Born in: Rochester, NY

My Qualifications

I have considerable experience conducting disease ecology. I’ve published 60 papers since 2001 in prestigious journals, such as Nature, PNAS, PLoS Medicine, Environmental Health Perspectives, Tren ...
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Awards

University of South Florida Outstanding Research Achievement Award 2009; Featured articles in Nature (top-ranked general science journal), Trends in Ecology and Evolution (number one ranked journal i ...
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Links

· http://shell.cas.usf.edu/rohr ...
· http://biology.usf.edu/IB/fac ...

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Passion/Philosophy

My passion is to find solutions to some of the major human health and ecological problems of our time. I study interactions among disease, climate change, and pollution in general.

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Transformational Reductions in Human Schistosomiasis by Modifying Agricultural Practices



Why? Schistosomiasis, a snail-transmitted trematode (parasitic flatworm) infection of humans, is one of the most socioeconomically devastating diseases on the planet and has catastrophic effects on children in particular. Indeed, human schistosomes infect more than 207 million people worldwide, more than 700 million are at risk, and approximately 20 million suffer severe consequences annually, most o ...
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Ultimate Goal Our ultimate goal is to identify simple changes to agricultural management that could vastly improve human health by simultaneously enhancing nutrition and decreasing human disease risk (intellectual merit). To address this goal, we will quantify the effects of agrochemicals on transmission of the schistosome parasite to the snails and identify agrochemicals that can improve crop yields without ...
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