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.
DCU Number: 40.1650
