Last week an online seminar was held by George Mason University as a part of their family weekend series. The featured speaker was Dr. Amira Roess, a professor of Global Health and Epidemiology at Mason’s College of Health and Human Services in their department of global and community health.

When not teaching at the Mason campus, Dr. Roess oversees several studies to understand emergence and transmission of zoonotic infectious diseases globally. Zoonotic diseases start off in animals and move into human populations and become chronic, which accurately describes the virus that the world has had to endure for the past year known as COVID-19.

To learn more about how models are created for how these diseases spread and implications for the winter months, click here.