Rate My Professor David Redding

Dr David Redding is Research Leader in Biodiversity and Health at The Natural History Museum. He holds a PhD from Simon Fraser University in Canada on the identification, conservation and characterization of evolutionarily isolated species, an MSc in Applied Ecology and Conservation from the University of East Anglia, and a BSc in Biology from Imperial College London. His career includes positions as Post-Doctoral Research Associate and MRC UKRI/Rutherford Fellow at University College London, Researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the Zoological Society of London, prior to his current role which began in 2023. He also serves as Honorary Research Fellow at University College London.

Dr Redding’s research examines how environmental change influences relationships between people, animals and pathogens, with a focus on the ecological, social and climatic drivers of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases. He employs Bayesian statistics, spatial modelling and machine learning methods to study land-use transformation, climate change and biodiversity patterns in relation to disease risk. Current projects include DTRA-NK on tick-borne diseases in Kenya, WARMR for mapping infectious disease risk under climate change, Rodentpop on Lassa fever ecology in West Africa, SENZOR for zoonotic disease early-warning systems, and SCAPES on land-use and biodiversity impacts on pathogen emergence. His work aims to develop decision-support tools integrating ecological knowledge with public health and conservation applications.

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