Wake Forest University

Infectious Disease Ecology, Evolution & Epidemiology

Studying how infectious disease emerges, spreads, and shapes living systems — across ecology, evolution, mathematics, and epidemiology.

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ProgramsThe concentration, its goals, and the curriculum ResearchThemes, labs, and opportunities for students PeopleFaculty, instructors, and collaborators Quantitative MethodsCalculus, probability, and statistics for disease dynamics Programming & ComputingReproducible scientific computing in R, Python, and Julia Epidemiology & MethodsIntervals, delays, diagnostics, and surveillance

About the program

The IDEEEP concentration brings together ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology to study how infectious diseases emerge, spread, and shape living systems. Students combine coursework in mathematical biology, disease ecology, and quantitative research methods with hands-on field and laboratory experience to understand pathogens across scales — from molecules to populations to ecosystems.

The mission of the program is to provide the next generation of biologists, physicians, vetrinarians, basic scientists, public health practicioners, and other researchers the tools needed to be effective and drive forward.

“Successful organisms attract parasites.” — Dickson Despommier

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