Disease ecologist Juliana Hoyos says it takes expertise in veterinary epidemiology, community ecology, population genetics and other disciplines to understand diseases like Chagas disease and leishmaniasis and the ways in which they are affected by environmental changes such as deforestation. Collaboration is essential to understanding the effects of change at the human-wildlife interface, Hoyos says, and the implications are global: “Small disturbances in a tropical forest may impact communities in the other corner of the world.”
