Roles
Professor
Division Director of Environment and Public Health
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Biography
John C. Beier, Sc.D., is a professor and director of the Division of Environmental Health Sciences in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His research focuses on the ecology and control of vector-borne diseases, including malaria, dengue, Zika, other arboviruses, and leishmaniasis.
He collaborates with international partners and University of Miami faculty and students across multiple departments and centers on interdisciplinary research related to mosquito vectors, pathogen transmission dynamics, determinants of human risk, novel vector control methods, and integrated vector management strategies.
Beier has authored more than 340 publications. His current research is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Science Foundation, and the Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control Division.
He teaches courses on the ecology and control of vector-borne diseases and climate and health. In 2013, he received a best teacher award. He has been ranked No. 1 for Anopheles mosquitoes and No. 2 for disease vectors by BiomedExperts.
Beier serves as an editor for Acta Tropica. He is a former member of the World Health Organization Vector Control Advisory Group and previously chaired review committees for the Department of Defense Military Infectious Disease Research Program (Vector Biology) and a National Institutes of Health study section on vector biology. -
Publications
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