Andrew P. Dobson

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute — PA

Medicine · Health Sciences

106h-index55.6kcitations431works3.92yr avg
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Research Topics

Zoonotic diseases and public health(78), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions(55), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics(54), Viral Infections and Vectors(50), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(49)

Publications431 total

ALTERNATE EVOLUTIONARY TRAJECTORIES FOLLOWING A PATHOGEN SPILLOVER INTO A NOVEL HOST: THE CASE OF MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM IN HOUSE FINCHES (HAEMORHOUS MEXICANUS)
Journal of Wildlife Diseases·2025
Tourism puts Zanzibari reserve at a crossroads
Science·2025· 1 cited
Reducing the threats of rodent-borne zoonoses requires an understanding and leveraging of three key pillars: disease ecology, synanthropy, and rodentation
The Lancet Planetary Health·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species
Science Advances·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
The Evolution of Virulence: An Ecological Perspective
Annual Review of Virology·2025Open Access
:<i>Infectious Disease Ecology and Conservation</i>
The Quarterly Review of Biology·2025
Viability and desirability of financing conservation in Africa through fire management
Nature Sustainability·2025· 10 cited
Parasites and Pollutants: Allometric Toxicology for Parasitologists
2025Open Access
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2024· 18 cited
Hookworm prevalence in ocelots in Costa Rica is inconsistent with spillover from domestic dogs despite high overlap
Ecosphere·2024Open Access
Stop elephant hunting in Tanzania borderlands
Science·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Accelerating Progress Towards the 2030 Neglected Tropical Diseases Targets: How Can Quantitative Modeling Support Programmatic Decisions?
Clinical Infectious Diseases·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
The Hidden Hand of Asymptomatic Infection Hinders Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Modeling Analysis
Clinical Infectious Diseases·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
A Profile of Priyanga Amarasekare
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America·2023Open Access
Plant communities and food webs
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
The hidden hand of asymptomatic infection hinders control of neglected tropical diseases
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Threat to Tanzanian Park requires compromise
Science·2023Open Access
From serological surveys to disease burden: a modelling pipeline for Chagas disease
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Conservation Biology, Discipline of
Elsevier eBooks·2023
Bridging Traditional and scientific knowledge through a novel predictive approach to understand the role of pathogens in the decline of a key Arctic species
2023Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Peter J. Hudson(9), Kevin D. Lafferty(9), Armand M. Kuris(7), Mercedes Pascual(6), Peter Daszak(5), Bryan T. Grenfell(4), Hamish McCallum(4), C. Drew Harvell(3), Sonia Altizer(3), Robert D. Holt(3), Jon Paul Rodrı́guez(3), Pieter T. J. Johnson(3), Robert Poulin(3), David W. Thieltges(3), Juliet R.C. Pulliam(3), Ryan F. Hechinger(3), Robert W. Howarth(2), William H. Schlesinger(2), Charles E. Mitchell(2), Jessica R. Ward(2)