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Center for Global Health Faculty

Gregory Glass

Professor

Gregory Glass

Academic Degrees

  • PhD

Departmental Affiliation

Departmental Address

615 North Wolfe St, Suite E3632 Baltimore, MD 21205

Contact Information

Phone:
410-955-3708
Fax:
410-955-0105
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SciVal Experts Research Profile

Research and Professional Experience

We study the maintenance and transmision dynamics of infectious agents, especially zoonotic agents. Our work includes both laboratory and field research of animal reservoir and arthropod vector populations, as well as epidemiologic studies of affected human populations. Our goal is to better understand the reasons for the emergence and persistence of infectious diseases. 

From a practical perspective, infectious diseases even globally important ones such as malaria, are limited in time and space. Understanding the environmental drivers of the spatio-temporal patterns and being able to identify them is critical to implementing control strategies.  The world and the human population is too large to simply randomly apply intervention strategies.  To do so invites the evolution of resistance in vectors and pathogens as well as wasting limited resources.

Recent research has focused on rodent-borne viruses (Hantavirus, Coronavirus Dengue virus), bacteria (Leptospira, Borrelia), rickettsiae (Ehrlichia) and malaria. In addition to traditional field and laboratory studies we develop integrated statistical spatial models for disease risk assement in a spatially explicit format using geographic information systems (GIS).

The GIS laboratory coordinates the study of anticipated geographic changes in infectious diseases for the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.

Keywords

GIS, Remote Sensing, Hantavirus, Lyme disease, Malaria, zoonoses, rodent-borne diseases, modeling

Selected Publications

Walsh, AS, TA Louis, & GE Glass. 2007. Detecting multiple levels of effect during survey sampling using a Bayesian approach: Point prevalence estimates of Hantavirus in cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus). Ecol Model 205:29-38.

Glass, GE, T Shields, B Cai, TL Yates & R Parmenter. 2007. Persistently highest risk areas for Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: potential sites for refugia. Ecol Appl 17:129-139.

Eisen, R., GE Glass, L Eisen, J Cheek, R Enscore, P Ettestad, K Gage.2007. A spatial model of shared risk for plague and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the southwestern United States. Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:999-1004.

Walsh, AS, GE Glass, CR Lesser & FC Curriero. 2008. Predicting seasonal abundance of mosquitoes based on off-season meteorological conditions. Environ Ecol Statistics 15:279-291

Johansson, MA, F Dominici, GE Glass. 2009. Local and global effects of climate on dengue transmission in Puerto Rico. PLoS NTD 3(2): e382.

Johansson, MA Cummings, DAT and GE Glass 2009. Multi-year climate variability and Dengue: El Niño Southern Oscillation, weather, and Dengue incidence in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Thailand. PLoS Medicine 6(11): e1000168

Vittor, A. W. Pan, R. Gilman, J.Tielsch, G Glass, T. Shields, W. Sánchez-Lozano, V. Pinedo, E. Salas-Cobos, J. Patz. 2009. Linking deforestation to malaria in the Amazon: characterization of the breeding habitat of the principal malaria vector, Anopheles darlingi Am J Trop Med Hyg 81:5-12.

Gardner-Santana, L.C., Norris, D.E., Fornadel, C.M. Hinson, E.R., Klein, S.L., Glass, GE. 2009. Commensal ecology, urban landscapes, and their influence on the genetic characteristics of city-dwelling Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus). Molecular Ecology 13:2766-2778.

Glass, GE. L. Gardner-Santana , RD Holt , J Chen , T Shields , M Roy , S Schachterle , SL Klein. 2009. Trophic Garnishes: Cat-rat interactions in an urban environment. PLoS ONE 4(6): e5794. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0005794

Brown,HE, Ettestad,P, Reynolds, PJ, Hatton, E., Holmes, JL. Glass, GE, Gage, KL, Eisen, RJ. 2010. Climatic predictors of the intra- and inter-annual distributions of plague cases in New Mexico based on 29 years of animal-based surveillance data along an ecological gradient. Am J Trop Med Hyg 82:95-102.

Mills, JN, BR Amman, & GE Glass. 2010. Hantavirus host ecology in North America. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis DOI: 10.1089=vbz.2009.0018

Haque U, Magalhães RJS, Reid HL, Clements ACA, Ahmed SM, Islam A, Yamamoto T, Haque R, Glass GE 2010. Spatial prediction of malaria prevalence in an endemic area of Bangladesh. Malaria Journal. 9:120

Haque U, M Hashizume, T Sunahara, S Hossain, SM Ahmed, R Haque, T Yamamoto, GE Glass. 2010. Progress and challenges to control malaria in a remote area of Chittagong hill tracts, Bangladesh. Malaria Journal 9:156

Clennon,  JA, A Kamanga, M Musapa, C Shiff, GE Glass. 2010. Identifying malaria vector breeding habitats with remote sensing data and terrain-based landscape indices in Zambia. Int J Hlth Geogr 9:58

Haque, U, M. Hashizume, GE. Glass, AM Dewan, HJ. Overgaard, T Yamamoto. 2010. The role of climate variability in the spread of malaria in Bangladeshi highlands. PLoS One e14341.

Klein, SL, MA Marks, W Li, GE Glass, LQ Fang, JQ Ma, WC Cao. 2011. Sex differences in the incidence and case fatality rates from hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in China 2004-2008. Clin Infect Dis 52: 1414-1421.

Wei, L, Q Qian, ZQ Wang, GE Glass, SX Song, WY Zhang, XJ Li, H Yang, XJ Wang, LQ Fang, WC Cao. 2011. Using geographic information system-based ecologic niche models to forecast the risk of hantavirus infection in Shangdong Province, China. Am J Trop Med Hyg.84: 497-503.

Khan WA, DA Sack, S Ahmed, CS Prue, MS Alam, R Haque, J Khyang, M Ram, J Akter, MM Nyunt, D Norris, G Glass, T Shields, MZ Haq, A Cravioto, DJ Sullivan. 2011. Mapping hypoendemic, seasonal malaria in rural Bandarban, Bangladesh: a prospective surveillance. Malaria J May 14;10:124  

Moss WJ, H Hamapumbu, T Kobayashi, T Shields, A Kamanga, J Clennon, S Mharakurwa, PE Thuma, G Glass. 2011. Use of remote sensing to identify spatial risk factors for malaria in a region of declining transmission: a cross-sectional and longitudinal community survey. Malaria J Jun 10;10:163

Klimentidis, YC, TM Beasley, H-Y Lin, G Murati, GE Glass, M Guyton, W Newton, M Jorgensen, SB. Heymsfield, J Kemnitz, L Fairbanks,  DB Allison. 2011. Canaries in the coal mine: A cross-species analysis of the plurality of obesity epidemics. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 278: 1626-1632.

LaDeau, SL, GE Glass, NT Hobbs, A Latimer, RS Ostfeld. 2011. Data-model fusion to better understand emerging pathogens and improve infectious disease forecasting Ecol Applications 21:1443-1460

Andreo, V, G Glass, T Shields, C Provensal, J Polop. 2011. Modeling potential distribution of Oligoryzomys longicaudatus, the Andes virus (Genus: Hantavirus) reservoir, in Argentina. EcoHealth DOI 10.1007/s10393-011-0719-

Flanagan ML, CR Parrish, S Cobey, GE Glass, RM Bush, TJ Leighton. 2011. Anticipating the species jump: Surveillance for emerging viral threats. Zoonoses Public Health. Sep 14. doi: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2011.01439.x.

Khlyap L, G Glass, & M Kosoy. 2011. Rodents in urban ecosystems of Russia and the USA. Chapter 1, in Rodents: Habitat Pathology and Environmental Impact. Nova Science Publishers, Inc ISBN: 978-1-61470-833-9 (in press)

Projects

  • Information Predicting dengue epidemics with entomological and virological surveillance by xenomonitoring

      
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