Mathieu Pruvot

My research is diverse and generally addresses different interfaces in complex wildlife-livestock-human systems, and is fundamentally multi-disciplinary and collaborative, along the One Health principles. Major themes include pathogen transmission at the wildlife livestock interface, anthropogenic factors of pathogen emergence, global wildlife disease surveillance, and livestock production environmental sustainability. I study pathogen transmission between wildlife and livestock via diverse approaches, including by measuring and characterizing multi-host contact structure, in systems such as the foothills of Alberta or the desert steppe of Mongolia. I will be expanding risk assessment and contact structure characterization across Western Canada in upcoming research. More broadly, at the wildlife-livestock interface, I am interested in identifying management strategies that co-optimize cattle, wildlife, and ecosystem health, specifically by identifying the effect of management on individual resilience. My previous work and on-going collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) include the study of anthropogenic drivers of pathogen emergence, with a focus on the effect of land-use change (deforestation) on rodent pathogen emergence in Cambodia, and on the effect of wild meat trade in Southeast Asia. I am also working with WCS on improving wildlife disease surveillance network globally, with on-going surveillance projects in Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam).

I am recruiting on several Alberta-based projects, so prospective graduate students are encouraged to get in touch.

Additionally, prospective post-doctoral fellows interested in any of the above research area are encouraged to contact me but will be expected to identify potential postdoctoral fellowship opportunity.