Refereed journal articles:
Lendino A, Castellanos AC, Pigott DM, Han BA. A review of emerging health threats from zoonotic New World arenaviruses. BMC Microbiology, 24:115.
Dahlin K, O'Regan, Han BA, Schmidt JP, Drake JM. 2024. Impacts of host availability and temperature on mosquito-borne parasite transmission. Ecological Monographs, 94:31603.
Sundaram, M., Dorado, M., Akaribo, B., Filion, A., Han, B.A., Gottdenker, N.L., Schmidt, J.P., Drake, J.M. and Stephens, P.R. 2024. Fruit–frugivore dependencies are important in Ebolavirus outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ecography, Early view.
Han BA, Varshney KR, LaDeau S, Subramaniam A, Weathers KC, Zwart J. 2023. A synergistic future for AI and ecology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220283120
Rosi EJ, Fick JB, Han BA. 2023. Are Animal Disease Reservoirs at Risk of Human Antiviral Exposure? Environmental Science and Technology Letters. doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00201
Faust C, Castellanos AA, Peel A, Eby P, Plowright R, Han BA, Bharti N. 2023. Environmental variation across disparate spatial scales and temporal lags influences Hendra virus spillover. J. Applied Ecology. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14415
Vadmal G, Glidden C, Han BA, Carvalho B, Castellanos A, Mordecai E. 2023. Data-driven predictions of potential Leishmania vectors in Latin America. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010749
Sundaram M, Schmidt JP, Han BA, Drake JM, Stephens PR. 2022. Traits, phylogeny and host cell receptors predict ebolavirus host status among African mammals. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0010993.
Ecke F, Han BA, Hörnfeldt B, Khalil H, Magnusson M, Singh N, and Ostfeld R. 2022. Population fluctuations and synanthropy explain transmission risk in rodent-borne zoonoses. Nature Communications. DOI:10.1038/s41467-022-35273-7
Becker DJ, Albery GF, Sjodin AR, Poisot T, Bergner LM, Chen B, Cohen LE, Dallas TA, Eskew EA, Fagre AC, Farrell MJ, Gush S, Han BA, Simmons NB, Stock M, Teeling EC, Carlson CJ. 2022. Optimising predictive models to prioritise viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs. The Lancet Microbe. DOI:10.1016/S2666-5247(21)00245-7
Espira LM, Brouwer AF, Han BA, Foufopoulos J, Eisenberg JNS. 2021. Dilution of epidemic potential of environmentally transmitted infectious diseases for species with partially overlapping habitats. American Naturalist, E000–E000. doi:10.1086/717413
Celone M, Okech B, Han BA, Forshey BM, Anyamba A, Dunford J, et al. 2021. A systematic review and meta-analysis of the potential non-human animal reservoirs and arthropod vectors of the Mayaro virus. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 15: e0010016. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0010016
Fischhoff IR, Castellanos AA, Rodrigues J, Varsani A, Han BA. 2021. Predicting the zoonotic capacity of mammals to transmit SARS-CoV-2. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1651
Wadhawan K, Das P, Han BA, Fischhoff IR, Castellanos AC, Varsani A, Varshney KR. 2021. Towards interpreting zoonotic potential of betacoronavirus sequences with attention. ICLR 2021 Workshop Machine learning for preventing and combating pandemics. arXiv:2108.08077 [q-bio.QM]
Han BA, Castellanos AA, Schmidt JP, Fischhoff IR, Drake JM. 2021. The ecology of zoonotic parasites in the Carnivora. Trends in Parasitology. DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2021.08.006
Majewska AA, Huang T, Han BA, Drake JM. 2021. Predictors of zoonotic potential in helminths. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 376: 20200356. doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0356
Carlson CJ, Farrell MJ, Grange Z, Han BA, Mollentze N, Phelan AL, et al. 2021. The future of zoonotic risk prediction. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 376: 20200358. doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0358.
Becker DJ and Han BA. 2021. The macroecology and evolution of avian competence for Borrelia burgdorderi. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
Wells HL, Letko M, Ssebide B, Byarugaba D, Navarrete-Macias I, Liang E, Cranfield M, Han BA, Tingley M, Diuk-Wasser M, Goldstein T, Johnson CK, Mazet J, Munster V, Gilardi K, Anthony S. 2021. The evolutionary history of ACE2 usage within the subgenus Sarbecovirus. Virus Evolution.
Sacchetto L, Drumond BP, Han BA, Nogueira ML, Vasilakis, N. 2020. Re-emergence of yellow fever in the neotropics – quo vadis? Emerging Topics Life Sciences. 4 (4): 411–422.
Han BA, O’Regan SM, Schmidt JP, Drake JM. 2020. Integrating data mining and transmission theory for the ecology of infectious diseases. Ecology Letters, 23(8):1178
Fischhoff I, Huang T, Hamilton S, Han BA, Ladeau S, Ostfeld RS, Emma R, Solomon C. 2020. Parasite and pathogen effects on ecosystem processes: a quantitative review. Ecosphere, 11(5): e03057.
Plowright RK, Becker DJ, Crowley DE, Washburne AD, Huang T, Han BA. 2019. Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, India: Identifying reservoirs to prioritize surveillance. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 13(6): e0007393.
Schmidt JP, Maher S, Drake JM, Huang T, Farrell MJ, Han BA. 2019. Ecological indicators of mammal exposure to Ebolavirus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 374:20180337.
Berger KM, Wood JLN, Jenkins B, Olsen J, Morse SS, Gresham L, Root JJ, Rush M, Pigott D, Winkleman T, Gillespie TR, Nuzzo J, Han BA, Olinger P, Karesh WB, Mills JN, Annelli JF, Barnabei J, Lucey D, Hayman DTS. 2019. Policy and science for global health security: shaping the course of international health. Special issue: One Health and Zoonoses, Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases 4(2): 60.
Han BA, Majumdar S, Calmon FD, Horesh R, Kumar A, Perer A, von Marschall EB, Wei D, Mojsilovic A, Varshney K. 2019. Confronting data sparsity to identify potential sources of Zika virus infection among primates. Epidemics, 27:59-65. [PDF]
Han BA, Ostfeld RS. 2019. Topic modeling of major research themes in disease ecology of mammals. Journal of Mammalogy, 100:1008.
Downs C, Schoenle L, Han BA, Harrison J, Martin M. 2019. The scaling of host competence. Trends in Parasitology, 35:182.
Stephens PR, Altizer S, Gittleman JL, Moan E, Han BA, Pappalardo P. 2019. Parasite sharing in wild ungulates and their predators: effects of phylogeny, range overlap, and trophic links. Journal of Animal Ecology, 19:1159. [PDF]
Dallas TA, Han BA, Nunn CL, Park AW, Stephens PR, Drake JM. 2019. Host traits associated with species roles in parasite sharing networks. Oikos 28:23.
Almeida RM, Han BA, Reisinger AJ, Kagemann C, Rosi EJ. 2018. High mortality in aquatic predators of mosquito larvae caused by exposure to insect repellent. Biology Letters 14, 20180526.
Dallas TA, Aguirre AA, Budischak S, Carlson C, Ezenwa V, Han BA, Huang S, Stephens PR. 2018. Gauging support for macroecological patterns in helminth parasites. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27, 1437–1447.
Walker JW, Han BA, Ott IM and Drake JM. 2018. Transmissibility of emerging viral zoonoses. PLoS ONE. 13, e0206926.
Strona G, Carstens CJ, Beck PSA, Han BA. 2018. The intrinsic vulnerability of networks to epidemics. Ecological Modelling 383:91–97. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.05.013
Yang LH, Han BA. 2018. Data-driven predictions and novel hypotheses about zoonotic tick vectors from the genus Ixodes. BMC Ecology, 18:1-7.
Blaustein AR, Urbina J, Snyder PW, Reynolds E, Dang T, Hoverman JT, Han BA, Olson DH, Searle C, Hambalek NH. 2018. The effects of emerging infectious diseases on amphibians: a review of experimental studies. Diversity 10, 81.
LaDeau SL, Han BA, Rosi-Marshall EJ, Weathers KC. 2017. The next decade of big data in ecosystem science. Ecosystems. 20:274–83.
Evans, M., Dallas, T.A., Han BA, Murdock, C.C., Drake, J.M. Data-driven identification of potential Zika virus vectors. 2017. eLife. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.22053
Schmidt JP, Park AW, Kramer A, Han BA, Alexander LA, Drake JD. 2017 . Spatiotemporal fluctuations and triggers of Ebola virus spillover. Emerging Infectious Diseases. DOI: 10.3201/eid2303.160101.
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Han BA, Yang, L. 2016. Predicting novel tick vectors of zoonotic disease. Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning. #Data4Good: Machine Learning in Social Good Applications, New York, NY, USA. arXiv:1606.06323v1 [q-bio.PE]
Ilin, R., Han, B.A. Formal Concept Analysis of Rodent Carriers of Zoonotic Disease. 2016. Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning. #Data4Good: Machine Learning in Social Good Applications, New York, NY, USA. arXiv:1608.07241 [stat.ML]
Pigott DM, Millear A, Earl L, Morozoff C, Han BA, Shearer FM, Weiss DJ, Brady OJ, Kraemer MUG, Moyes CL, Bhatt S, Gething PW, Golding N, Hay SI. 2016. Updates to the zoonotic niche map of Ebola virus disease in Africa. eLife, 5:e16412
Han BA, Schmidt JP, Hayman DTS, Alexander LA, Bowden SA, Drake JM. 2016. Undiscovered bat hosts of filoviruses. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(7): e0004815.
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Stephens, P.R., Altizer, S.M., Smith, K.F., Aguirre, A., Brown, J.H., Budischak, S., Byers, J.E., Critchlow, R., Davies, J.T., Drake, J.M., Ezenwa, V., Farrell, M., Gittleman, J.L., Han, B.A., Huang, S., Hutchinson, R.A., Johnson, P.T.J., Nunn, C.L., Onstad, D., Park, A.P., Poulin, R., Vazquez-Prokopec, G.M., Papparlardo, P.,Schmidt, J.P. 2016. The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts. Ecology Letters, 19:1159.
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Han BA, Kramer A, Drake JM. 2016. Global patterns of zoonotic disease in mammals. Trends in Parasitology, 32:565-577
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Han BA, Drake JM. 2016. Future directions in analytics for infectious disease intelligence. EMBO Reports, 2016:e201642534. DOI: 10.15252/embr.201642534
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LaDeau S, Han BA. 2016. The emergence of disease ecology. Japanese Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Management. 21(3)
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Han BA, Schmidt, J.P., Bowden, S.E., Drake, J.M. 2015. Rodent reservoirs of future zoonotic diseases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 112(22):7039-7044. doi:10.1073/pnas.1501598112
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Han BA, Park, A.W., Jolles, A.E., Altizer, S. 2015. Infectious diseases transmission and behavioural allometry in wild mammals. Journal of Animal Ecology, 84(3):637-646. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12336
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Han BA, Kerby JL, Searle CL, Storfer A, Blaustein AR. 2015. Host species composition influences infection severity among amphibians in the absence of spillover transmission. Ecology and Evolution, 5(7):1432-1439. doi:10.1002/ece3.1385
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Kats LB, Bucciarelli G, Schlais DE, Blaustein AR, Han BA. 2012. Ultraviolet radiation influences perch selection by a neotropical poison-dart frog. PLoS ONE, 7:e51364. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051364
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Han BA, Searle, C.L., and Blaustein, A.R. 2011. The effects of an infectious fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, on amphibian predator-prey interactions. PLoS ONE, 6(2): e16675. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016675
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Altizer S, Bartel R, and Han BA. 2011. Animal migrations and infectious disease risk. Science, 331:296-302.
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Blaustein, A.R., Han, B.A., Relyea, R., Johnson, P.T.J., Buck, J., Gervasi, S. and Kats, L.B. 2011. The complexity of amphibian population declines: understanding the role of cofactors in driving amphibian losses. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology (Eds. Ostfeld, R.S. and Schlesinger, W.H.), 1223:108-119. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05909.x
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Bancroft, B.A., Han, B.A., Searle, C.L., Biga, L.M., Olson, D.H., Kats, L.B., Lawler, J.J., and Blaustein, A.R. 2011. Species-level correlates of susceptibility to the pathogenic amphibian fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in the United States. Biodiversity and Conservation, 20:1911-1920. doi: 10.1007/s10531-011-0066-4
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Romansic, J.R., Johnson, P.T.J., Searle, C.L., Johnson, J.E., Tunstall, T., Han, B.A., Rohr, J.R., and Blaustein, A.R. 2011. Individual and combined effects of multiple pathogens on Pacific treefrogs. Oecologia, 166(4):1029-1041. doi: 10.1007/s00442-011-1932-1
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Searle, C.L., Belden, L.K., Bancroft, B.A., Han, B.A., Biga, L.F., and Blaustein, A.R. 2010. Experimental examination of the effects of ultraviolet-B radiation in combination with other stressors in frog larvae. Oecologia, 162:237-245.
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Han, B.A., Bradley, P.W., and Blaustein, A.R. 2008. Ancient behaviors of larval amphibians in response to an emerging fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63:241-250.
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Lampo, M., Sánchez, D., Nicolás, A., Márquez, M., Nava-González, F., Garcia, C.Z., Rinaldi, M., Rodríguez-Contreras, A., León, Fabiola, Han, B.A., Chacón-Ortiz, A. 2008. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Venezuela. Herpetological Review, 39:449-454.
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Sánchez, D.A., Chacón-Ortiz, A., León, R., Han, B.A., and Lampo, M. 2008. Widespread occurrence of an emerging pathogen in amphibian communities of the Venezuelan Andes. Biological Conservation, 141:2898-2905.
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Han, B.A., Kats, L.B., Pommerening, R.C., Ferrer, R.P., Murry-Ewers, M. and Blaustein A.R. 2007. Behavioral avoidance of ultraviolet-B radiation by two species of neotropical poison-dart frogs. Biotropica, 39:433-435.
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Lampo, M., Barrio-Amoros, C.L., and Han, B.A. 2006. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection in the recently rediscovered Atelopus mucubajiensis (Anura, Bufonidae) in the Venezuelan Andes. EcoHealth, 3:299-302.
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Johnson, P.T.J., Preu, E. R., Sutherland, D. R., Romansic, J., Han, B.A., and Blaustein, A.R. 2006. Adding infection to injury: Synergistic effects of predation and parasitism on salamander limb malformations. Ecology, 87:2227–2235.
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Blaustein, A. R., Romansic, J. M., Scheessele, E. A., Han, B.A., Pessier, A.P., and Longcore, J.E. 2005. Interspecific variation in susceptibility of frog tadpoles to the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Conservation Biology, 19:1460-1468.
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Blaustein, A.R., Han, B., Fasy, B., Romansic, J., Scheessele, E.A., Anthony, R.G., Marco, A., Chivers, D.P., Belden, L.K., Kiesecker, J.M., Garcia, T.S., Lizana, M. and Kats, L.B. 2004. Variable breeding phenology affects the exposure of amphibian embryos to ultraviolet radiation and Optical characteristics of natural waters protect amphibians from UV-B in the U.S. Pacific Northwest: Comment. Ecology, 85:1747-1754.
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Other publications:
Pandit P, Han BA. Rise of the Machines in Disease Ecology: The Arising and Established Researcher. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, January 2020.
Han BA. The Algorithm That's Hunting Ebola. Invited feature article, IEEE Spectrum Magazine, 24 September 2015.
Han BA and Altizer S. 2013. Invited chapter, Conservation and Diseases in The Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (2nd edition). Levin, S. (Ed.) Academic Press. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-384719-5.00273-2
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Han BA, Rushmore J, Fritzsche A, Satterfield D, and Winternitz J. 2012. Preempting pandemics. Science, 337:647-648. (Book Review: The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe). doi:10.1126/science.1225462
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