Emily Acheson
University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
Biography
Emily Acheson is currently a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in spatio-temporal modelling of Cryptococcus gattii, a medically-relevant fungus. For her Master’s at the University of Ottawa, she studied the geographical distributions of mosquitoes and tsetse flies transmitting malaria and sleeping sickness, respectively. Her research uses GIS methods to approach disease vector or pathogen distributions from a macroecological perspective.