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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


Michele Bergevin, MASc

PhD candidate

Areas of expertise: mosquito-borne disease, Orthobunyaviruses, Cache Valley virus, epidemiology, knowledge synthesis, statistical modelling


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 diseases, 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 diseases, epidemiology, tick bite prevention, mixed methods


Grace Nichol, BSc

PhD candidate

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


Keana Shahin, MSc

PhD candidate

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