Linking epidemiologic and economic models for risk and consequence assessment — National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense

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Bruce McCarl (Texas A&M) and Tim Carpenter (UC Davis), FAZD Center principal investigators

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The Investigators: Dr. Bruce McCarl, Texas A&M University, Regents Professor of Agricultural Economics and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association. Research focus is on the economics of strategies directed toward Biosecurity event prevention, detection, response and recovery. Nobel Prize, 2007

Dr. Tim Carpenter, Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Davis and Co-Director of the Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance (CADMS) His main field is epidemiology with an emphasis on problem solving. Research interests are foot and mouth disease modeling, temporal and spatial cluster statistics, and risk assessment of disease importation and eradication.