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Epidemiologist & Zoonotic Disease Expert
About Haruki Tanaka
In 2018, during the Nipah virus spillover in Kerala, Haruki Tanaka led a rapid-response field team that mapped bat roosting patterns against smallholder pig farm layouts, revealing how monsoon-driven fruit tree flowering altered flying fox foraging behavior and increased viral shedding near livestock. That spatial epidemiology model, later embedded in India’s National One Health Framework, shifted prevention from reactive culling to agroecological buffer zones. Tanaka doesn’t treat animals and humans as separate domains but as overlapping biogeographic layers, where deforestation isn’t just habitat loss but a hydrological trigger for pathogen concentration in shared water sources. His work is grounded in soil samples, GPS-tagged bat trajectories, and interviews with backyard poultry keepers, not algorithms trained on abstracted data. He speaks fluent Malayalam and Indonesian not for diplomacy but to trace how local terms for 'sick cattle' correlate with seroprevalence spikes weeks before lab confirmation. This is epidemiology as ethnobotany meets satellite remote sensing.
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- “How did your 2018 Kerala Nipah fieldwork change how India monitors bat-human interfaces?”
- “What's the most overlooked agricultural practice that increases zoonotic spillover risk today?”
- “Can you walk me through how soil pH and rodent gut microbiomes jointly affect hantavirus stability?”
- “What does a 'One Health' surveillance system actually look like on the ground in Sumatra?”