Professor John Beier
Editor for Acta Tropica
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (DEPH) at the Miller School of Medicine, Miami and Co-Director of the Center for Global Health Sciences in DEPH
My group specializes in the epidemiology and control of vector-borne diseases in developing countries, and has worked extensively in the Middle East, Africa, and the Latin America-Caribbean region. His research involves field and laboratory studies on malaria, dengue, West Nile Virus, and in the past he has worked on leishmaniasis and filariasis. Current research involves interdisciplinary studies on vector-borne diseases in urban environments, development and field-testing improved methods for malaria vector control, climate-based models for predicting outbreaks of dengue, and impacts of anthropogenic environmental changes on the ecology of pathogen transmission.