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Zoonotic diseases and public health

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Jamie M. Kass
Tohoku University
2
Zoë Grange
Public Health Scotland
3
Marta Cimatti
Sapienza University of Rome
4
Abigail Bartlett
University of Exeter
5
Alaina C. Pfenning‐Butterworth
University of British Columbia
6
Elisabeth Mahase
BMJ Group (United Kingdom)
7
Marcos Antônio Bezerra‐Santos
University of Bari Aldo Moro
8
Alexis Pengfei Zhao
Stanford Medicine
9
Michael B. Mahon
Environmental Protection Agency
10
Severino Jefferson Ribeiro da Silva
3M (United States)

Rising Stars Papers

1
Interconnecting global threats: climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases
The Lancet Planetary Health|2024
155 cit.
2
AI for science: Predicting infectious diseases
Journal of Safety Science and Resilience|2024
154 cit.
3
A meta-analysis on global change drivers and the risk of infectious disease
Nature|2024
139 cit.
4
Smelly interactions: host-borne volatile organic compounds triggering behavioural responses in mosquitoes, sand flies, and ticks
Parasites & Vectors|2024
27 cit.
5
AI for science: Covert cyberattacks on energy storage systems
Journal of Energy Storage|2024
23 cit.
6
Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software
Ecography|2024
15 cit.
7
Development and field validation of a reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay (RT-LAMP) for the rapid detection of chikungunya virus in patient and mosquito samples
Clinical Microbiology and Infection|2024
13 cit.
8
The Accelerating Exposure of European Protected Areas to Climate Change
Global Change Biology|2025
9 cit.
9
Diverging fish biodiversity trends in cold and warm rivers and streams
Nature|2025
7 cit.
10
Endometriosis: Lack of care pathway and poor symptom recognition are hindering care, report warns
BMJ|2024
5 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Jinjun Ran
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2
Salihu S. Musa
University of Maryland, College Park
3
Guangpu Yang
Chinese University of Hong Kong
4
Qianyin Lin
University of Michigan
5
Prasenjit Maity
Sanskriti Samvardhan Mandal
6
Daniel Cadarette
Oldham Council
7
Anne Cori
Public Health England
8
Qijun Jiang
Wageningen University & Research
9
Verity Hill
Rega Institute for Medical Research
10
John T. McCrone
Infectious Disease Research Institute

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The origins and molecular evolution of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in the UK
Virus Evolution|2022
166 cit.
2
Context-specific emergence and growth of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant
Nature|2022
143 cit.
3
Excess cardiovascular mortality across multiple COVID-19 waves in the United States from March 2020 to March 2022
Nature Cardiovascular Research|2023
74 cit.
4
Prevalence of neurodevelopmental disorders among US children and adolescents in 2019 and 2020
Frontiers in Psychology|2022
70 cit.
5
A new lineage nomenclature to aid genomic surveillance of dengue virus
PLoS Biology|2024
70 cit.
6
Real-time estimation of the epidemic reproduction number: Scoping review of the applications and challenges
PLOS Digital Health|2022
58 cit.
7
Quantifying the effect of delaying the second COVID-19 vaccine dose in England: a mathematical modelling study
The Lancet Public Health|2023
28 cit.
8
Urban heat island impacts on mental health in middle-aged and older adults
Environment International|2025
28 cit.
9
The Heterogeneous Severity of COVID-19 in African Countries: A Modeling Approach
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology|2022
27 cit.
10
Infection fatality rate and infection attack rate of COVID-19 in South American countries
Infectious Diseases of Poverty|2022
26 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Peter Daszak
The Nature Conservancy
2
Todd M. Palmer
University of Florida
3
Mark Woolhouse
University of Edinburgh
4
Andrew A. Cunningham
Zoological Society of London
5
David M. Morens
National Institutes of Health
6
Andrew Rambaut
University of Edinburgh
7
Jonna A. K. Mazet
University of California, Davis
8
Yoshihiro Kawaoka
University of Wisconsin–Madison
9
Simon I Hay
University of Washington
10
Daihai He
Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees
BMC Evolutionary Biology|2007
13.1k cit.
2
Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7
Systematic Biology|2018
11.3k cit.
3
Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2012
10.4k cit.
4
The global distribution and burden of dengue
Nature|2013
10.2k cit.
5
Global trends in emerging infectious diseases
Nature|2008
8.3k cit.
6
Relaxed Phylogenetics and Dating with Confidence
PLoS Biology|2006
6.6k cit.
7
Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction
Science Advances|2015
4.1k cit.
8
Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic data integration using BEAST 1.10
Virus Evolution|2018
4.1k cit.
9
A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology
Nature Microbiology|2020
3k cit.
10
Risk factors for human disease emergence
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences|2001
2.8k cit.

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