Climate, Ticks, and Emerging Public Health Issues

Dr. Needle’s research has focused on the confluence of human, animal, and environmental health as effecting emerging diseases. His research seeks to characterize something new, whether a disease phenotype or new pathogen, with a goal of understanding how it fits into the larger picture. He is currently leading a multi-disciplinary team of researchers under the recently announced $8 million NSF-funded initiative EMBEDDEd-NH.

The project is a statewide research and workforce development investigation that brings together researchers, students, educators, and community partners University of New Hampshire, Keene State University, and Plymouth State University, and students, state agencies, and private industry to collaborate in learning how to better understand the ecology and evolution of ticks in New Hampshire.