Dawn Nekorchuk

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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Bio

Dawn Nekorchuk is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Oklahoma. Her educational background includes a master’s degree in public health and a doctoral degree in medical geography. Her research and work since has been on geospatial modeling and forecasting of malaria. She is the lead developer of the epidemiar R package and associated code base of the EPIDEMIA forecasting system.

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Research/Topics of Interest

Apply models to public health
Climate/environmental drivers
Forecasting
Geospatial models
Public health application of models
Public health policy/interventions
Spatial transmission patterns
Surveillance/case detection
Time-series models
early warning
early detection

Pathogens/Diseases of Main Interest/Expertise

Malaria
Vector-borne diseases
Anthrax

Countries of Work/Collaboration

United States
Ethiopia

Projects

Papers

Wimberly MC, Nekorchuk DM, Kankanala RR. (2022). Cloud-based applications for accessing satellite Earth observations to support malaria early warning. Scientific data, 9(1)

Nekorchuk DM, Gebrehiwot T, Lake M, Awoke W, Mihretie A, Wimberly MC. (2021). Comparing malaria early detection methods in a declining transmission setting in northwestern Ethiopia. BMC public health, 21(1)

Nekorchuk DM, Morris LR, Asher V, Hunter DL, Ryan SJ, Blackburn JK. (2019). Potential Bacillus anthracis risk zones for male bison in southwestern Montana. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 55(1)

Davis JK, Gebrehiwot T, Worku M, Awoke W, Mihretie A, Nekorchuk D, Wimberly MC. (2019). A genetic algorithm for identifying spatially-varying environmental drivers in a malaria time series model. Environmental modelling & software : with environment data news, (119)

Gomez JP, Nekorchuk DM, Mao L, Ryan SJ, Ponciano JM, Blackburn JK. (2018). Decoupling environmental effects and host population dynamics for anthrax, a classic reservoir-driven disease. PlOS One, 13(12)

Katz AR, Nekorchuk DM, Holck PS, Hendrickson LA, Imrie AA, Effler PV. (2011). Hawaii Veterinarians' Bioterrorism Preparedness Needs Assessment Survey. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 33(4)

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