Current position: Associate Professor

Current affiliation: Population Health and Disease Prevention

Research website: Link

Research description: Dr. Daniel M. Parker is trained in anthropology and demography and considers himself a spatial epidemiologist and medical geographer. He works on infectious diseases, human movement and travel patterns, and spatial interventions, particularly in under-resourced and conflict-affected regions. His research integrates geographic information systems (GIS), Earth Observation data, molecular epidemiology, and statistical modeling to examine disease transmission and barriers to healthcare. He has led large-scale geographic reconnaissance efforts for malaria interventions in Eastern Myanmar; worked on vector-borne disease ecology in Asia, East Africa, and the U.S.A.; and conducted research on displaced populations’ access to healthcare. Through collaborations with NGOs, governments, and academic institutions, his work directly informs scalable public health interventions, using geospatial technologies to analyze mobility patterns, model disease distributions across space and time, and improve healthcare delivery in vulnerable populations.