Dr. Andy Tatem
Associate Professor
atatem@ufl.edu or andy.tatem@gmail.com
3128 Turlington Hall, P.O. Box 117315
Gainesville, Florida 32611
Office Phone: (352) 392-0494 Ext. 211
Fax: (352) 392-8855
- Medical Geography
- Malaria risk mapping
- Spatial Demography
- Transport networks and insect-borne disease
spread
- Mapping and modeling human population movements
Educational Background
- Ph.D. Computer Science/Geography, University of Southampton,
UK, 2001
- BSc. Environmental Sciences, University of
Southampton, UK, 1998
Recent Courses
- GEO4938/6938: The Geography of Vector-borne
Diseases
Tatem, A.J., Campiz, N., Gething, P.W., Snow, R.W. and Linard, C., 2011, The effects of spatial population dataset choice on population at risk of disease estimates, Population Health Metrics, in press.
Gray, R., Tatem, A.J., Johnson, J.A., Alexseyenko, A.V., Pybus, O.G., Suchard, M.A. and Salemi, M., 2011, Bayesian phylogenetics of bacterial genomes: Inferring the pandemic spread of Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST239, Molecular Biology and Evolution, in press.
Moonen, B., Cohen, J.M., Tatem, A.J., Cohen, J., Hay, S.I., Sabot, O. and Smith, D.L., 2010, A framework for assessing the feasibility of malaria elimination, Malaria Journal, 9, 322.
Tatem, A.J., Smith, D.L., Gething, P.W., Kabaria, C.W., Snow, R.W. and Hay, S.I., 2010, Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries, The Lancet, 376 (9752), 1579-1591.
Linard, C., Alegana, V.A., Noor, A.M., Snow, R.W. and Tatem, A.J., 2010, A high resolution spatial population database of Somalia for disease risk mapping, International Journal of Health Geographics,9: 45.
Talbi, C., Lemey, P., Suchard, M.A., Abdelatif, E., Elharrak, M., Jalal, N., Faouzi, A., Echevarría, J.E., Morón, S.V., Rambaut, A., Campiz, N., Tatem, A.J., Holmes, E.C. and Bourhy, H., 2010, Phylodynamics and human-mediated dispersal of a zoonotic virus, PLoS Pathogens, 6(10), e1001166.
Tatem, A.J. and Smith, D.L., 2010, International population movements and regional Plasmodium falciparum malaria elimination strategies, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(24), 12222-12227.
Reid, H. Haque, U., Clements, A.C.A., Tatem, A.J., Vallely, A., Ahmed, S.M., Islam, A. and Haque, R., 2010, Mapping malaria risk in Bangladesh using Bayesian geostatistical models, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 83(4), 861-867.
Clements, A.C.A. , Soares Magalhães, R.J., Tatem, A.J., Paterson, D.L., Riley, T., 2010, Clostridium difficile polymerase chain reaction ribotype 027: assessing the risks of further global spread, Lancet Infectious Diseases, 10 (6): 395-404.
Hay, S.I., Okiro, E.A., Gething, P.W., Patil, A.P., Tatem, A.J., Guerra, C.A. and Snow, R.W., 2010, Estimating the global clinical burden of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in 2007, PLoS Medicine, 7 (6): e100029.
Guerra, C.A., Howes, R.E., Patil, A.P., Gething, P.W., Van Boeckel, T.P., Temperley W., Kabaria, C.W.,Tatem, A.J., Manh, B.H., Elyazar, I.R.F., Baird, J.K., Snow, R.W. and Hay, S.I., 2010, The international limits and population at risk of Plasmodium vivax transmission in 2009, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 4 (8): e774.
Bharti, N., Djibo, A., Ferrari, M., Grais, R.F., Tatem, A.J., McCabe, C., Bjornstad, O. and Grenfell, B., 2010, Measles hotspots and epidemiological connectivity in Niger, Epidemiology and Infection, 138: 1308-1316.
Linard, C., Gilbert, M. and Tatem A.J., 2010, Assessing the use of global land cover data for guiding large area population distribution modelling, Geojournal, doi:10.1007/s10708-010-9364-8.
Gething, P.W., Smith, D.L., Patil, A.P., Tatem, A.J., Snow, R.W., Hay, S.I., 2010. Climate change and the global malaria recession. Nature, 465(7296): 342-345.
Reid, H., Vallely, A., Taleo, G., Tatem, A.J., Kelly, G., Riley, I., Harris, I., Henri, I., Iamaher, S. and Clements, A.C.A., 2010, Baseline spatial distribution of malaria prior to an elimination programme in Vanuatu, Malaria Journal, 9, 150.
Snow RW, Alegana VA, Okiro EA, Gething PW, Patil P, Tatem A.J., Linard C, Moloney G, Borle M, Yusuf FE, Amran J, Noor AM (2010). Estimating the Plasmodium falciparum morbidity and mortality burden 2005 and 2009 in Somalia: Combining models of population distribution, time-space changes in malaria infection risk and the epidemiology of malaria disease burden. Report prepared for UNICEF-Somalia, March 2010.
Dellicour, S., Tatem, A.J., Guerra, C.A., Snow, R.W. and ter Kuile, F., 2010, Quantifying the Number of Pregnancies at Risk of Malaria in 2007: A Demographic Study. PLoS Medicine 7(1): e1000221. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000221
Tatem, A.J., Qiu, Y., Smith, D.L., Sabot, O., Ali, A.S. and Moonen, B., 2009, The use of mobile phone data for the estimation of the travel patterns and imported P. falciparum rates among Zanzibar residents,Malaria Journal, 8, 287.
Smith, D.L. and Tatem, A.J., 2009, Bioeconomics of malaria
eradication, Resources, 173, 10-12.
Tatem, A.J., Goetz, S.J. and Hay, S.I., 2009, Un demi-siècle d'imagerie spatial, Pour la Science, 383.
Gray, R.R., Tatem, A.J., Lamers, S., Hou, W. , Laeyendecker, O., Serwadda, D., Serwankambo, N., Gray, R.H., Wawer, M., Quinn, T.C., Goodenow, M.M., Salemi, M., 2009, Spatial phylodynamics of HIV-1 epidemic emergence in East Africa, AIDS, 23(14):F9-F17.
Hay, S.I., Guerra, C.A., Gething, P.W., Patil, A.P., Tatem, A.J., Noor, A.M., Kabaria, C.W., Manh, B.H., Elyazar, I.R.F., Brooker, S., Smith, D.L., Moyeed, R.A. and Snow, R.W. (2009). A world malaria map: Plasmodium falciparum endemicity in 2007. Public Library of Science Medicine, 6(3): e48.
Tatem, A.J., 2009, The worldwide airline network and the dispersal of exotic species: 2007-2010,Ecography, 32, 94-102.
Tatem, A.J., Goetz, S.J. and Hay, S.I., 2008, Fifty years of Earth-observation satellites, American Scientist, 96, 390-398.
Noor, A.M., Mutheu, J.J., Tatem, A.J., Hay, S.I. and Snow, R.W., 2008, Mapping the progress of insecticide treated net coverage in Africa 2000-2007, Lancet, 373, 58-67.
Tatem, A.J., Guerra, C.A., Kabaria, C.W., Noor, A.M. and Hay, S.I., 2008, Human population, urban settlement patterns and their impact on Plasmodium falciparum malaria endemicity, Malaria Journal, 7: 218.
Noor, A.M., Alegana, V.A., Gething, P.W., Tatem, A.J. and Snow, R.W., 2008, Using remotely sensed night-time light as a proxy for poverty in Africa, Population Health Metrics, 6: 5.
Guerra, C.A., Gikandi, P.W., Tatem, A.J., Noor, A.M., Smith, D.L., Hay, S.I. and Snow, R.W, 2008, The limits and intensity of Plasmodium falciparum transmission: implications for malaria control and elimination worldwide, PLoS Medicine, 5(2): e38.
Scharlemann, J.P.W, Benz, D, Hay, S.I., Purse, B.V., Tatem, A.J., Wint, G.R.W. and Rogers, D.J., 2008, Global data for ecology and epidemiology: a novel algorithm for temporal Fourier processing MODIS data, PLoS ONE, 3(1): e1408.
Tatem, A.J., 2008, Measuring urbanization in low income countries for public health interventions, In:Focus on Urbanization Trends, Nova Science.
Tatem, A.J., Noor, A.M., von Hagen, C., di Gregorio, A. and Hay, S.I., 2007, High resolution population maps for low income nations: combining land cover and census in East Africa, PLoS ONE, 2(12): e1298.
Tatem, A.J., 2007, Effect of poor census data on population maps, Science, 318 (5847), 43.
Tatem, A.J. and Hay, S.I., 2007, Climatic similarity and biological exchange in the worldwide airline transportation network, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274, 1489-1496.
Pybus, O.G., Markov, P.V., Wu, A. and Tatem, A.J., 2007, Investigating the endemic transmission of the hepatitis C virus, International Journal for Parasitology, 37, 839-849.
Guerra, C.A., Hay, S.I., Lucioparades, L.S., Gikandi, P.W., Tatem, A.J., Noor, A.M. and Snow, R.W., 2007, Assembling a global database of malaria parasite prevalence for the Malaria Atlas Project, Malaria Journal, 6, 17.
Wint, W and Tatem, A.J., 2007, Spatial analysis of animal disease distribution in the Philippines: step two report prepared by Environmental Research Group Oxford Limited for the Environmental Animal Health Initiative, FAO, Manila, Philippines.
Wint, W and Tatem, A.J., 2007, Remote sensing options and image processing requirements for spatial analysis of animal disease distribution in the Philippines: step one report prepared by Environmental Research Group Oxford Limited for the Environmental Animal Health Initiative, FAO, Manila, Philippines.
Tatem, A.J., Hay, S.I. and Rogers, D.J., 2006, Global traffic and disease vector dispersal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 6242-6247.
Tatem, A.J., Snow, R.W. and Hay, S.I., 2006, Mapping the environmental coverage of the INDEPTH Demographic Surveillance System (DSS) network in rural Africa, Tropical Medicine and International Health, 11, 1318-1326.
Tatem, A.J., Nayar, A. and Hay, S.I.. 2006, Scene selection and the use of NASA’s global orthorectified Landsat dataset for land cover and land use change monitoring, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27, 3073-3078.
Tatem, A.J., Rogers, D.J. and Hay, S.I., 2006, Estimating the malaria risk of African mosquito movement by air travel, Malaria Journal, 5, 57.
Tatem, A.J., Rogers, D.J and Hay, S.I., 2006, Global transport networks and infectious disease spread,Advances in Parasitology, 62, 293-343.
Hay, S.I., Tatem, A.J., Goetz, S.J. and Rogers, D.J, 2006, Global environmental data for mapping infectious disease distribution, Advances in Parasitology, 62, 37-77.
Brooker, S., Clements, A.C.A., Hotez, P.J., Hay, S.I., Tatem, A.J., Bundy, D.A.P. and Snow, R.W., 2006, The co-distribution of hookworm and Plasmodium falciparum among African schoolchildren, Malaria Journal, 5, 99.
Tatem, A.J., Rogers, D.J. and Hay, S.I., 2006, Foresight on traffic in disease vectors: 2005, 2015 and 2030. Scenario review paper prepared for the Detection and Identification of Infectious Diseases Project (DIID), Foresight Project, Office of Science and Innovation, London, UK. Pg. 42.
Hay, S.I., Tatem, A.J., Guerra, C.A. and Snow, R.W., 2005,. Foresight on population at malaria risk in Africa: 2005, 2015 and 2030. Scenario review paper prepared for the Detection and Identification of Infectious Diseases Project (DIID), Foresight Project, Office of Science and Innovation, London, UK. Pg. 40.
Tatem, A.J., Noor, A.M. and Hay, S.I., 2005, Assessing the accuracy of satellite derived global and national urban maps in Kenya, Remote Sensing of Environment, 96, 87-97.
Hay, S.I., Guerra, C.A., Tatem, A.J., Atkinson, P.M. and Snow, R.W., 2005, Urbanization, malaria transmission and disease burden in Africa, Nature Reviews Microbiology, 3 (1), 81-90.
Hay, S.I. and Tatem, A.J., 2005, Remote sensing of malaria in urban areas: two scales, two problems,American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 72 (6), 655-657.
Omumbo, J.A., Hay, S.I., Snow, R.W., Tatem, A.J. and Rogers, D.J., 2005, Modelling malaria risk in East Africa at high spatial resolution, Tropical Medicine and International Health, 10 (6), 557-566.
Hay, S.I., Noor, A.M., Nelson, A. and Tatem, A.J., 2005, The accuracy of human population maps for public health application, Tropical Medicine and International Health, 10 (10), 1-11.
Tatem, A.J., 2005, Global climate matching: satellite imagery as a tool for mapping vineyard suitability,Journal of Wine Research, 16 (1), 19-32.
Tatem, A.J., Noor, A.M. and Hay, S.I., 2004, Defining approaches to settlement mapping for public health management in Kenya using medium spatial resolution satellite imagery, Remote Sensing of Environment, 93, 42-52.
Tatem, A.J. and Hay, S.I., 2004, Measuring urbanization pattern and extent for malaria research: a review of remote sensing approaches, Journal of Urban Health, 81, 363-376.
Purse, B.V., Baylis, M., Tatem, A.J., Rogers, D.J., Mellor, P.S., Van Ham, M. and Braverman, Y., 2004, Prediction of the risk of bluetongue through time using climate-driven models of the temporal distribution of outbreaks in Israel. Revue Scientifique et technique de l'office international des epizooties, 23 (3), 761-775.
Tatem, A.J., Goetz, S.J. and Hay, S.I., 2004, Terra and Aqua: new data for epidemiology and public health, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 6 (1), 33-46.
Hay, S.I., Guerra, C.A., Tatem, A.J., Noor, A.M., Snow, R.W., 2004, The global distribution and population at risk of malaria: past, present and future, Lancet Infectious Diseases, 4, 327-336
Tatem, A.J., Guerra, C.A., Atkinson, P.M. and Hay, S.I., 2004, Momentous sprint at the 2156 Olympics?,Nature, 431, 525.
Purse, B.V., Tatem, A.J., Caracappa, S., Rogers, D.J., Mellor, P.S., Baylis, M., Torina, A., 2004, Modelling the distributions of Culicoides bluetongue virus vectors in Sicily in relation to satellite-derived climate variables, Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 18, (2), 90-101.
Tatem, A.J., Lewis, H.G., Atkinson, P.M. and Nixon, M.S., 2003, Increasing the Spatial Resolution of Landsat TM Imagery for Land Cover Mapping in Agricultural Areas, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 17, 647-672.
Tatem, A.J., Baylis, M., Mellor, P.S., Purse, B.V., Capela, R., Pena, I. and Rogers, D.J., 2003, Prediction of bluetongue vector distribution in Europe and north Africa using satellite imagery, Veterinary Microbiology, 97, 13-29.
Tatem, A.J., Lewis, H.G., Atkinson, P.M. and Nixon, M.S., 2002, Land Cover Mapping at the Sub-pixel Scale using a Hopfield Neural Network, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 3, pp 184-190.
Tatem, A.J., Lewis, H.G., Atkinson, P.M. and Nixon, M.S., 2002, Super-Resolution Land Cover Pattern Prediction Using a Hopfield Neural Network, Remote Sensing of Environment, 79, pp 1-14.
Tatem, A.J., Lewis, H.G., Atkinson, P.M. and Nixon, M.S., 2002, Dealing with Uncertainty in Super-Resolution Land Cover Mapping, in G.M. Foody and P.M. Atkinson (eds.), Uncertainty in Remote Sensing and GIS, Wiley: Chichester, pp. 77-98.
Tatem, A.J., Lewis, H.G., Atkinson, P.M. and Nixon, M.S., 2001, Super-Resolution Target Identification from Remotely Sensed Images using a Hopfield Neural Network, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 39, pp 781-796.
Graduate Students Currently Supervised
- Anna Szyniszewska Ph.D. (Spring 2009)
- Zhuojie Huang Ph.D. (Spring 2010)
- Qiuyin Qi Ph.D. (Fall 2010)
- Andres Garcia Ph.D. (Fall 2010)
- Deepa Pindolia Ph.D. (Spring 2011)
In my own words
My work is focused on the application of population and urbanization mapping for malaria burden estimation, the dispersal of diseases and their vectors through global transport networks and quantifying population movements in relation to local malaria elimination planning.
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