Alan Hubbard, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, and John Taylor, Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, and colleagues published a study on the effect of drought on emerging infectious diseases in California. The researchers analyzed the relationship between Coccidioidomycosis, an infectious disease affecting Californians, and recent droughts. They looked through more than 81,000 coccidioidomycosis surveillance records and used statistical models to study the relationship between temperature, precipitation, and coccidioidomycosis.
Read more about the study here.
