Experts Guide

Roberts is a microbiologist and an expert in food safety, food-borne illness, bacteriology, emerging diseases, bioterrorism and molecular epidemiology.

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.

Kim is director of the Division of Infectious Disease & Internal Medicine and can discuss virology, infectious diseases, global health, malaria and parasitic diseases.

Miley researches vector-borne and respiratory pathogens that are biosafety level 3 select agents such as Eastern equine encephalitis and highly pathogenic avian influenza. She works with mosquito-borne illnesses including EEE, West Nile and dengue viruses, along with the vector-borne parasitic disease onchocerciasis, commonly known as "river blindness," which is transmitted through black fly bites and is prevalent in Africa and Latin America.