He is also the Deputy Director of the CDC-funded New England Center of Excellence in Vector-borne Disease. This regional consortium (based at UMass) comprises a wide range of academic and public health partners from across New England. Further information: https://www.newvec.org/
His research over the past ten years has been directed towards the design, implementation, and analysis of epidemiological studies and subsequent policies that address where slippages in both community- and individual-level public health programming occur, and ways to address these gaps through improved programing or novel interventions.
SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19. The Lover Lab is currently supporting global efforts to mitigate the impacts of this pandemic. This work includes a faculty role in UMass campus response; syndromic surveillance and modeling studies; and implementation of a large-scale serological survey (“antibody test”) across Massachusetts.
Tick-borne infections. The Lover Lab has received funding from the NIH for tick-borne studies in Western Massachusetts. These novel spatial case-control studies will aim to identify areas with highest human-tick overlaps, to help optimize public health tick surveillance programs in New England and beyond.
His lab currently consists of four PhD students (Estee Cramer, Johanna Ravenhurst, Mahfuj Alam, and Augustine Dada). Their main research studies involve a combination of qualitative and quantitative field data collection, quantitative analysis, and modeling to directly inform public health policy.
Main Research Interests
- Infectious disease surveillance (pathogens, serology & vectors)
- Vector-borne disease
- Interventional trials
- Global health
- Research Fellow (2015-2018)
University of California, San Francisco - PhD, Epidemiology (2015)
National University of Singapore - MPH, Epidemiology and Global Health (2011)
National University of Singapore - MS, Organic Chemistry (2003)
University of California, Santa Barbara - BA, Chemistry (1997)
Earlham College
Most Recent Publications
Forsad Al Hossain, M Tanjid Hasan Tonmoy, Sri Nuvvula, Brittany P Chapman, Rajesh K Gupta, Andrew A Lover, Rhoel R Dinglasan, Stephanie Carreiro, Tauhidur Rahman
Frontiers in Public Health, vol. 12, Frontiers Media SA, 2024, p. 1279392
Ryan Baker, Rebecca Lawlor, Maeve Smith, Jessica Price, Ashley Eaton, Andrew Lover, Dominique Alfandari, Peter Reinhart, Kathleen Arcaro, Barbara A Osborne
Frontiers in Immunology, vol. 15, Frontiers, 2024, p. 1401209
Estee Y Cramer, Xuan Quang Nguyen, Jeffrey C Hertz, Do Van Nguyen, Huynh Hong Quang, Ian H Mendenhall, Andrew A Lover
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, vol. 18, Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA, 2024, pp. e0012014
Thomas McAndrew, Maimuna S Majumder, Andrew A Lover, Srini Venkatramanan, Paolo Bocchini, Tamay Besiroglu, Allison Codi, Gaia Dempsey, Sam Abbott, Sylvain Chevalier, others
arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14686, 2024
Veronica Ormea, Roberto Evaristo, Salomon Durand, Andrew A Lover, Simon R Ruegg
CABI One Health, vol. 2(1), 2023, pp. ohcs20230006
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Contact
Andrew Lover
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
alover@umass.edu
(+1) 413-545-7426
Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences
409 Arnold House
715 N Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003-9304
