I am a Postdoctoral Researcher focusing on disease ecology and have been working in the School of Geography since 2017. I previously completed my PhD also in the School of Geography investigating the niche of the bacteria Yersinia pestis, the bacterial agent of plague, at both micro and macroecological scales. Prior to that I completed a Research Masters at the Durham University in the Department of Earth Sciences, investigating the potential interactions between volcanism and global plague pandemics.
My current research is focused on the persistence and reemergence of plague in Madagascar since it's introduction at the beginning of the 20th Century. I am investigating the interactions that a broad range biotic and abiotic factors my have on the persistence and transmission of Y. pestis both with enzootic hosts and human populations.
FELL, HENRY G., OSBORNE, OWEN G., JONES, MATTHEW D., ATKINSON, STEVE, TARR, SIMON, KEDDIE, SUZANNE H. and ALGAR, ADAM C., 2022. Biotic factors limit the invasion of the plague pathogen (Yersinia pestis) in novel geographical settings GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY. 31(4), 672-684
STENSETH, NILS CHR, TAO, YUXIN, ZHANG, CHUTIAN, BRAMANTI, BARBARA, BUNTGEN, ULF, CONG, XIANBIN, CUI, YUJUN, ZHOU, HU, DAWSON, LORNA A., MOONEY, SACHA J., LI, DONG, FELL, HENRY G., COHN, SAMUEL, SEBBANE, FLORENT, SLAVIN, PHILIP, LIANG, WANNIAN, TONG, HOWELL, YANG, RUIFU and XU, LEI, 2022. No evidence for persistent natural plague reservoirs in historical and modern Europe PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 119(51),
OSBORNE, OWEN G., FELL, HENRY G., ATKINS, HANNAH, VAN TOL, JAN, PHILLIPS, DANIEL, HERRERA-ALSINA, LEONEL, MYNARD, POPPY, BOCEDI, GRETA, GUBRY-RANGIN, CECILE, LANCASTER, LESLEY T., CREER, SIMON, NANGOY, MEIS, FAHRI, FAHRI, LUPIYANINGDYAH, PUNGKI, SUDIANA, I. MADE, JULIANDI, BERRY, TRAVIS, JUSTIN M. J., PAPADOPULOS, ALEXANDER S. T. and ALGAR, ADAM C., 2022. Fauxcurrence: simulating multi-species occurrences for null models in species distribution modelling and biogeography ECOGRAPHY. 2022(7),
FELL, HENRY G., BALDINI, JAMES U. L., DODDS, BEN and SHARPLES, GARY J., 2020. Volcanism and global plague pandemics: Towards an interdisciplinary synthesis JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY. 70, 36-46