December 15, 2023
CEZID/CBID Seminar Series presents Tony Goldberg
Submitted by Christine Huncovsky
The COBRE Center on Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, or CEZID, is hosting Tony Goldberg in the next presentation in the CEZID Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15, in T201 on the second floor of Trotter Hall. The seminar will also be available via Zoom.
Goldberg will present "Mixed Methods Research for Preventing Disease Emergence: Virology meets Anthropology."
Goldberg is a professor of epidemiology and John D. MacArthur Research Chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his bachelor's degree in biology and English from Amherst College in 1990, his doctorate in biological anthropology from Harvard University in 1996, and his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and master's degree in epidemiology in 2000 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Goldberg studies the ecology and evolution of emerging pathogens. His research combines epidemiological study designs with laboratory-based methods in metagenomics to "hunt" for the causes of diseases of unknown etiology. He uses methods in the social sciences to link the resulting findings to root drivers of pathogen emergence, many of which hinge on human activities. Goldberg focuses on diseases that threaten wildlife and imperil ecosystem services, whether those diseases are zoonotic. His overarching goal is to improve the health and well-being of animals and people while helping to conserve the rapidly changing ecosystems we share.
The CEZID seminar series is organized within the diagnostic medicine and pathobiology department in the College of Veterinary Medicine and is hosted by Juergen Richt, CEZID director.