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.