Expertise

Expertise: Agent-based modeling, Disease modeling, Epidemiology, Human-wildlife conflict, One Health, Wildlife immobilization and restraint.
Teaching Responsibilities: Disease Ecology
Research Interests: Belsare is interested in disease systems that have conservation or public health implications, specifically emerging and novel pathogens e.g., chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids, amphibian chytridiomycosis; zoonoses e.g., West Nile virus, baylisascariasis (raccoon roundworms), leptospirosis, rabies; and pathogen spillover at the human-domestic-wildlife interface e.g.,  Kyasanur Forest Disease, SARS-CoV-2, bighorn sheep pneumonia, canine distemper. His approach combines ecologic, epidemiologic, and model-based investigations to understand how pathogens spread through, persist in, and impact host populations.

Subject areas:

  • Natural Resources Management
  • Wildlife Sciences.

Aniruddha Belsare is a disease ecologist with a background in veterinary medicine, pathogen modeling, and conservation research.

Projects:

  • Chronic Wasting Disease Modeling Framework
  • One Health Modeling Framework
  • Big horn sheep pneumonia Modeling Project
  • Raccoon Roundworm Management
  • Multihost, multistrain Leptospira Dynamics
  • Free-roaming dogs and canine rabies in India.

I’m interested in Disease ecology, Agent-based Modeling, OneHealth.

Interests:

  • Wildlife Disease Ecology
  • One Health
  • Disease Modeling
  • Agent-based models
  • Rabies.
Past Affiliations

Research Scientist, Biology, Emory University (past)

Research Associate, Fisheries and Wildife, Michigan State University (past)

Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Science, University of Idaho (past)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, School of Natural Resources, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia (past)

Communities
Wildlife and Wetlands Science, Forestry
Degrees
PhD, University of Missouri Columbia, Wildlife Science- Disease Ecology, 2013
BVSc, Bombay Veterinary College, Veterinary Medicine, 1996