{"id":7643,"date":"2026-08-07T13:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/?page_id=7643"},"modified":"2026-08-07T15:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:10:29","slug":"robbins-ecodess","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/robbins-ecodess\/","title":{"rendered":"Framework to predict dengue transmission across urban and rural areas in northwestern Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-6044 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/profile\/charlotte-robbins\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\">\n\t\t\t<img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2024\/09\/2024_Charlotte-Robbins-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Charlotte Robins headshot\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2024\/09\/2024_Charlotte-Robbins-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2024\/09\/2024_Charlotte-Robbins-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2024\/09\/2024_Charlotte-Robbins.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\t\t<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Charlotte Robbins<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Environmental Health<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Partner:<\/strong> Ecologia, Desarrollo, Salud, y Sociedad and <a href=\"https:\/\/sph.umich.edu\/faculty-profiles\/eisenberg-joseph.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Michigan<\/a>, Summer 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Summary: <\/strong>Dengue fever is a disease transmitted by mosquitoes that impacts millions of people every year. Researchers and policymakers generally consider dengue to be an urban disease because of high population density in most cities; however, there is evidence that dengue cases are increasing outside of urban areas. Dengue transmission is complex, depending on a range of environmental factors (i.e., precipitation), infrastructure (i.e., presence of reliable piped water), social factors (i.e., human movement), and biological factors (i.e., mosquito type). As a result,\u00a0researchers and policymakers need a better framework to predict transmission across all environments.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte partnered with Ecolog\u00eda, Desarrollo, Salud, y Sociedad (EcoDESS, or Ecology, Development, Health, and Society), a research group that works to understand infectious disease transmission and support community health in Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador. She helped develop a framework to predict dengue transmission in northwest Ecuador by combining environmental, social, and biological factors that determine mosquito abundance and human vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte created a one-page document that describes the framework for public health professionals in Ecuador and Latin America. She also contributed to a manuscript about the framework written for researchers. The new framework can help professionals prevent and monitor dengue outbreaks by better predicting where transmission will occur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deliverables:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One-page document describing the new framework for policymakers in Ecuador and Latin America.<\/li>\n<li>Forthcoming peer-reviewed manuscript describing framework.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch Charlotte&#8217;s URBAN internship lightning talk <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PC6b2lR0cl4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Partner: Ecologia, Desarrollo, Salud, y Sociedad and University of Michigan, Summer 2026 Project Summary: Dengue fever is a disease transmitted by mosquitoes that impacts millions of people every year. Researchers and policymakers generally consider dengue to be an urban disease because of high population density in most cities; however, there is evidence that dengue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24039,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7679,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7643\/revisions\/7679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}