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Section Symposium

Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology

One Health Approaches to Vector-borne Disease Surveillance and Control

Integrated tick-borne disease management and prevention across urban gradients

Tuesday, November 12, 2024
3:24 PM – 3:47 PM MST
Location: Phoenix Convention Center, 221 B, PCC
Oral Presentation
Tick-borne diseases continue to emerge in the United States and no single preventative method is available to curb the epidemic. Reducing tick-borne disease burden requires multiple integrated preventative and control methods that differentially target populations at risk across landscape and eco-social contexts. We hypothesized that people’s risk, knowledge, attitudes, perceptions (KAP) and willingness to engage in protective behaviors vary across urban/suburban gradients. This talk will summarize results from multiple studies conducted in the New York City metropolitan area where we assessed how urban/suburban landscapes shape (1) tick-borne disease hazard, mediated by the distribution of tick and tick-borne pathogen hosts; (2) the nature and patterns of human exposure to tick-borne disease hazard and (3) people’s risk perceptions and willingness to engage in prevention. We utilized multiple complementary socio-ecological research methods, including ecological assessments by tick and host sampling, social surveys and a smartphone application. Finally, we propose a framework for integrated targeted risk prevention and control to reduce tick-borne disease burden in these diverse populations.