Mission Statement: The mission of the Center for Infectious Disease Ecology Research (CIDER) is to promote the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge on the ecology of infectious diseases and its impacts on humans, biodiversity, and the environment through research and the development of interdisciplinary scholars. We define infectious disease ecology as the study of biotic and abiotic factors that affect the abundance, spread, or pathology of pathogens or parasites of exclusively wildlife or of humans if the human pathogen or parasite also has a wild host or vector.
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Goals:
1) To generate, translate, and disseminate knowledge on the ecology of infectious diseases
2) To promote collaborative interdisciplinary research on the ecology of infectious diseases
3) To train undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers with an interdisciplinary perspective on infectious disease ecology work
4) To facilitate communication among USF stakeholders involved in infectious disease ecology research (e.g., College of Medicine, College of Public Health, Integrative Biology, CMMB, Anthropology, College of Marine Science, etc.)
CIDER's current home department is the Department of Integrative Biology within the College of Arts and Sciences, of the University of South Florida (USF), but it's members are from department across the entire USF campus (see Researchers).