Broader Impacts
Bridging data gaps about wild deer ecology for informing: 1) risk assessment and preparedness for foreign animal diseases that could involve wild cervids (e.g., Foot-and-mouth disease virus) or, 2) management of endemic cervid pathogens such as blue tongue virus, chronic wasting disease, epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus, and bovine tuberculosis.
Strengthening collaborative networks among researchers and state and federal agency partners to efficiently combat future disease emergence events.
Capacity building and infrastructure development for early detection.
Protecting agriculture, public health, and wildlife health through an evidence-based understanding wild deer movement, human-deer interactions, and the impact of these processes on pathogen transmission and evolution.