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Professor Kris Murray

Professor
of Environment and Health

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

I trained in Biology as an undergraduate and received a PhD in disease ecology in 2010, working on the pandemic amphibian disease chytridiomycosis. I have since been working at the interface between environmental, wildlife and human health.

Affiliations

MRC - Gambia

Centres

Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health

Research

I have strong interests in global change biology and sustainability science, foucssing on spillover ecology, zoonoses, vector-borne diseases, snakebite, land-use and climate change, nature-based solutions, and biodiversity

I generally work on problems where these key themes are interconnected, broadly falling under the inter-related banners of Planetary Health, EcoHealth and OneHealth.

This includes:

  • human health - climate, environmental and social change impacts on infectious disease burdens and distributions, disease emergence, zoonoses, biosecurity risks, health economics
  • wildlife health - infectious disease burdens and distributions, disease emergence, disease ecology, biosecurity, wildlife trade
  • biodiversity - extinction risks, threats (e.g., trade, diseases, habitat loss, invasive species, climate change), population ecology, behavioural ecology
  • ecosystems - habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation, ecosystem services
  • climate change - influence on ecosystems, biodiversity and human health

I'm particularly interested in problems that characterise the impacts of global change, but that could also be leveraged for mitigating human impacts and promoting better stewardship of the natural world.

Current projects:

  • Snakebite eco-epidemiology
  • Pathogeography: biogeography (and mapping) of human infectious diseases
  • Climate change and infectious diseases
  • Health co-benefits of environmental interventions
  • Ecology and management of amphibian chytridiomycosis
  • Ecology of emerging zoonotic diseases
  • Open-learning: massive open online courses (MOOCs)
Research Area
Climate change
Environment
Globalisation
Environmental Health
Discipline
Epidemiology
GIS/Spatial analysis
Parasitology
Vector biology
Disease and Health Conditions
Cancer
Infectious disease
Emerging Infectious Disease
Vector borne disease
Zoonotic disease
Region
World

Selected Publications

Equity in planetary health education initiatives.
Bonell A; Badjie J; Faal LB; Jammeh S; Ali Z; Hydara M; Davies A; Faal M; Ahmed AN; Hand W
2023
The Lancet. Planetary health
The role of global reanalyses in climate services for health: Insights from the
<i>Lancet</i>
Countdown
Di Napoli C; Romanello M; Minor K; Chambers J; Dasgupta S; Escobar LE; Hang Y; Hänninen R; Liu Y; Lotto Batista M
2023
Meteorological Applications
Climate change maladaptation for health: Agricultural practice against shifting seasonal rainfall affects snakebite risk for farmers in the tropics.
Goldstein E; Erinjery JJ; Martin G; Kasturiratne A; Ediriweera DS; Somaweera R; de Silva HJ; Diggle P; Lalloo DG; Murray KA
2023
iScience
Climate change and communicable diseases in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
Rawson T; Doohan P; Hauck K; Murray KA; Ferguson N
2023
Epidemics
No climate change justice in lieu of global authorship equity - Authors' reply.
Romanello M; Cai W; Costello A; Hartinger S; Murray K; Gordon Stratchan G
2023
Lancet (London, England)
Association between Conflict and Cholera in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Charnley GEC; Jean K; Kelman I; Gaythorpe KAM; Murray KA
2022
Emerging infectious diseases
Cholera past and future in Nigeria: are the Global Task Force on Cholera Control's 2030 targets achievable?
Charnley GEC; Yennan S; Ochu C; Kelman I; Gaythorpe KAM; Murray KA
2022
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Prevalence of bat viruses associated with land-use change in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil.
Loh EH; Nava A; Murray KA; Olival KJ; Guimarães M; Shimabukuro J; Zambrana-Torrelio C; Fonseca FR; de Oliveira DBL; Campos ACDA
2022
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology
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