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Meet the Team

Katie M. Clow – DVM, PhD

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph


Cyril Akwo – BASc, MSc

PhD candidate

Areas of expertise: ticks and tick-borne disease, surveillance, epidemiology, One Health, statistical modelling, Lyme disease


Catherine R. Belanger – DVM

PhD candidate

Areas of expertise: infectious diseases, zoonoses, epidemiology, One Health, public health, canine importation


Sydney DeWinter – MSc

PhD candidate

Areas of expertise: vector-borne disease, sand flies, ticks, Leishmaniosis, canine importation, epidemiology, knowledge synthesis, One Health


Valentina Gonzalez – BSc

MSc student

Areas of expertise: canine importation, epidemiology, mixed methods, canine health and welfare, One Health


Sarah Makepeace – BSc

MSc student

Areas of expertise: ticks and tick-borne disease, epidemiology, tick bite prevention, mixed methods


Emily Perry – BScH

MSc candidate

Areas of expertise: mosquitoes and mosquito-borne disease, Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus, epidemiology, entomology, climate change, One Health


Keana Shahin – MSc

PhD candidate

Areas of expertise: mosquitoes and mosquito-borne disease, climate change, Aedes species, risk modelling, public health, knowledge synthesis