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Ramírez-González is a biologist who researches tropical and vector-borne diseases, including Chagas, Dengue and West Nile virus, and foodborne parasitic diseases such as Cyclospora, Giardia and Cryptosporidium. He is studying the presence of Chagas disease in Florida, where infected kissing bugs have been discovered in more than 20 counties and are carriers of an underrecognized disease that can lead to chronic heart damage if left undiagnosed. He is available for English- and Spanish-language interviews.

Carney's research focuses on epidemiology, functional morphology, mosquito-borne diseases and paleontology. His epidemiology research primarily focuses on the surveillance and control of mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, West Nile virus and Zika. Through NSF- and NIH-funded global research collaborations with NASA and the CDC, he leads a team that identifies disease-spreading and invasive mosquitoes using artificial intelligence, along with citizen science data from three partner apps.