Summary
***I have now moved to the MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where I am Professor of Environmental Change and Health, and co-Director of the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health***
Please see https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/murray.kris
email: kris.murray@lshtm.ac.uk
My research interests:
Global Change, Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Health
I am an ecologist with interests in global change, conservation and health. I generally work on problems where these key themes are interconnected, broadly falling under the inter-related banners of Planetary Health, EcoHealth and OneHealth.
This includes:
human health - climate, environmental and social change impacts on infectious disease burdens and distributions, disease emergence, zoonoses, biosecurity risks, health economics
wildlife health - infectious disease burdens and distributions, disease emergence, disease ecology, biosecurity, wildlife trade
biodiversity - extinction risks, threats (e.g., trade, diseases, habitat loss, invasive species, climate change), population ecology, behavioural ecology
ecosystems - habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation, ecosystem services
climate change - influence on ecosystems, biodiversity and human health
I'm particularly interested in problems that characterise the impacts of global change, but that could also be leveraged for mitigating human impacts and promoting better stewardship of the natural world.
Current projects:
Snakebite eco-epidemiology
Pathogeography: biogeography (and mapping) of human infectious diseases
Climate change and infectious diseases
Health co-benefits of environmental interventions
Ecology and management of amphibian chytridiomycosis
Ecology of emerging zoonotic diseases
Open-learning: massive open online courses (MOOCs) on climate change and health
Where to from here:
Visit the Murray Lab - Ecological Health Research Group webpage
Publications: Google Scholar
Link up on: LinkedIn
Visit the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health
Visit the MRC Unit The Gambia
Check out the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis (MRC GIDA)
Or the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Or at the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment
Twitter: @earthfluenza
Healthy People Healthy Planet @IChealthyplanet
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Murray KA, Olivero J, Roche B, et al. , 2018, Pathogeography: leveraging the biogeography of human infectious diseases for global health management, Ecography, Vol:41, ISSN:0906-7590, Pages:1411-1427
Fisher M, Murray K, 2018, Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines, Science, Vol:360, ISSN:0036-8075, Pages:621-627
Watson JEM, Evans T, Venter O, et al. , 2018, The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Vol:2, ISSN:2397-334X, Pages:599-610
Watts N, Amann M, Ayeb-Karlsson S, et al. , 2017, The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health, The Lancet, Vol:391, ISSN:0140-6736, Pages:581-630
Allen T, Murray KA, Zambrana-Torrelio C, et al. , 2017, Global hotspots and correlates of emerging zoonotic diseases, Nature Communications, Vol:8, ISSN:2041-1723
Watts N, Adger WN, Ayeb-Karlsson S, et al. , 2016, The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change, The Lancet, Vol:389, ISSN:0140-6736, Pages:1151-1164
Murray KA, Preston N, Allen T, et al. , 2015, Global biogeography of human infectious diseases, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol:112, ISSN:1091-6490, Pages:12746-12751