Katarina Ost

  • Profession or Job Title:
    PhD student
  • Institution:
    University of Ottawa
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  • Research Interests
    & Expertise:
    NA
  • Project title:
    Assessing strategies for the prevention and control of emerging tick-borne diseases in urban and peri-urban settings
  • Biography:

    Katarina is a Doctoral Candidate in Epidemiology at the University of Ottawa. Currently her research focuses on strategies to prevent and control Lyme Disease in the Ottawa area . Previously she completed her MPH at the University of Washington, where her thesis focused on the way in which sociodemographic characteristics modify the relationship between climactic variables and malaria in Kanungu, Uganda. She is interested in pursuing research at the nexus of environmental, human, and animal health as they relate to zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, as well as climate change related health adaptation.

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