William Pan, DrPH, Elizabeth Brooks Reid and Whitelaw Reid Professor of Population Studies and Global Environmental Health, joined the faculty at Duke in 2011. He holds a joint appointment at DGHI and the Nicholas School of Environment, and is Adjunct Professor in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a biostatistician with expertise in spatial analysis, demography land use science, infectious disease epidemiology and environmental health.  He has over 20-years of experience leading large, multi-institutional and interdisciplinary research teams to study the impact of human-environment dynamics influencing human health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).  His work is primarily focused in Latin America, particularly the Amazon region.  His current research focuses on: (1) studying the health effects of mercury and other chemical exposures from artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM); (2) developing tools for forecasting vector-borne disease risk, focusing particularly on the integration and modeling of climate, land use, population and malaria surveillance data; (3) studying the role of migration and social network connectivity influencing infectious disease transmission; (4) understanding the risk of lead exposure among hunters and their families, and to identify solutions to mitigate that risk; and (5) evaluating multi-faceted benefits of nature-based solutions related to agroforestry, climate resilience, livelihoods, and disease mitigation.

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Recent Publications

  • Weinhouse, C; Perez, L; Ryde, I; Goodrich, JM; Miranda, JJ; Hsu-Kim, H; Murphy, SK; Meyer, JN; Pan, WK
    BMC genomic data 26, no. 1 ( ): 68
  • Gonzales-Gustavson, E; Pizzitutti, F; Bonnet, G; Muro, M; Elizalde, M; Muro, C; Gamboa, R; Arroyo, G; Gabri毛l, S; Pan, WK; Garcia, HH; O'Neal, S
    Parasites & vectors 18, no. 1 ( ): 375
  • Gonzales-Gustavson, E; Pizzitutti, F; Bonnet, G; Muro, C; Gamboa, R; Bustos, JA; Gabri毛l, S; Pan, WK; Garcia, HH; O'Neal, S; CWGP
    International journal for parasitology ( ): S0020-7519(25)00156-0
  • Gonzales-Gustavson, E; Pizzitutti, F; Bonnet, G; Muro, C; Gamboa, R; Bustos, JA; Gabri毛l, S; Pan, WK; Garcia, HH; 脫Neal, S
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