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About Brett Bayles

Dr. Bayles is an assistant professor of Global Public Health in the School of Health and Natural Sciences. He has a completed postdoctoral work in spatial epidemiology from the University of California at Riverside and in global environmental change from the University of Minnesota. He holds a doctorate and master’s degree in public health with a focus on biosecurity and emerging infectious diseases.

Since coming to Dominican in 2016, Dr. Bayles has developed curriculum in global public health and has taught a number of courses in the program, including: epidemiology, senior capstone, and global environmental health. In addition, he has developed a planetary health research group aimed at fostering student-faculty research opportunities around emerging infectious disease epidemiology. His current research interests are focused on quantifying the linkages between changes to the environment and hotspots of emerging vector-borne disease.

Positions

Present Assistant Professor, Dominican University of California
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2017 - 2019 Co-Director, Dominican University of California
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2017 Co-Founder, Dominican University of California
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2016 - 2017 Director, Dominican University of California ‐ Health Sciences Program
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2015 - 2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California-Riverside ‐ Department of Entomology
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2015 - 2016 Research Consultant, The Nature Conservancy
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2014 - 2016 Adjunct Faculty, California State University, Northridge ‐ College of Health Sciences
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2014 Adjunct Faculty, Washington University ‐ George Warren Brown School of Social Work
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2012 - 2014 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities ‐ Institute on the Environment
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2010 - 2012 Graduate Research Assistant​, Saint Louis University School of Public Health ‐ Department of Environmental Health
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2010 - 2011 Research Assistant, Washington University ‐ Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research
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2008 - 2009 Program Coordinator, Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program ‐ Military International Health Training Program
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Curriculum Vitae

Disciplines

Research Interests

Grants

2019 Proposal to develop a minor in Planetary Health
School of Health and Natural Sciences, Dominican University of California
Curricular Innovation Grant
$1,000
2019 Spatial analysis of vector-borne disease risk across indigenous lands in Costa Rica
School of Health and Natural Sciences, Dominican University of California
Summer Competitive Research Grant
$4,000
2018 Investigating the role of rainforest loss and vector-borne disease emergence in a biodiversity hotspot
School of Health and Natural Sciences, Dominican University of California
Summer Competitive Research Grant
$5,000
2016 Research Collective faculty development award
Dominican University of California
$500
2016 Research Collective faculty development award
Dominican University of California
$500
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Professional Service and Affiliations

2019 - Present Taskforce Member, Planetary Health Competency Framework Project, Planetary Health Alliance
Present Peer Reviewer, Cambridge Medicine Journal
Present Peer Reviewer, Diversity and Distributions
Present Peer Reviewer, PLoS ONE
Present Peer Reviewer, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
Present Peer Reviewer, Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
2012 - 2014 Member, Healthy People, Healthy Ecosystems. National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
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Courses

  • Applied Linear Modeling
  • Planetary Health Perspectives from Costa Rica
  • Applied Biostatistics
  • Global Environmental Health
  • Global Public Health Capstone
  • Epidemiology
  • Global Health in Film

Education

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2015 - 2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Riverside ‐ Department of Entomology
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2012 - 2014 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities ‐ Institute on the Environment
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2012 PhD, Saint Louis University ‐ Public Health Studies
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2010 MPH, Saint Louis University ‐ Biosecurity
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2007 BA, University of California - San Diego ‐ Biological Anthropology
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Links

Contact Information

Dominican University of California
50 Acacia Ave
San Rafael, CA 94901

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Publications (11)

Presentations (15)