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100 Chapman Hall
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
Tel: 1-760-703-1671
Email: brett.r.bayles@gmail.com
E D U C A T I O N a n d T R A I N I N G
2015- Postdoctoral Fellowship , Department of Entomology, University of California-Riverside
2012-14 Postdoctoral Fellowship , Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
2012 Ph.D. in Public Health Studies, Saint Louis University School of Public Health
2010
2007
M.P.H.
in Biosecurity, Saint Louis University School of Public Health
B.A.
in Biological Anthropology, University of California-San Diego
R E S E A R C H I N T E R E S T S
Disease Ecology ▪ Emerging Infectious Diseases ▪ Global Environmental Change ▪ Spatial Epidemiology
E X P E R I E N C E
2015Postdoctoral Research Fellow , School of Entomology
University of California-Riverside
2015- Part-time Faculty , Department of Health Sciences
California State University-Northridge
2014Biostatistics Consultant , “Conservation impacts on human well-being”
The Nature Conservancy
2014Part-time Faculty , College of Health Sciences
Trident University International
2014-15 Research Associate , School of Integrative Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2014 Instructor , George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Washington University in St. Louis
2012-14 Postdoctoral Research Fellow , Institute on the Environment
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
2010-12 Graduate Research Fellow , Department of Environmental Health
Saint Louis University School of Public Health
2010-11 Epidemiology Intern , Division of Infectious Diseases
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
2009-10 Research Assistant , Institute for Biosecurity
Saint Louis University School of Public Health
2008-09 Program Coordinator , Military International Health Training Program
Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program

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P U B L I C A T I O N S
2014
2013
2012
Bayles BR, Allan BF. Social-ecological factors determine spatial variation in human incidence of tick-borne ehrlichiosis. Epidemiology and Infection , 142:1911-24
Bayles BR, Evans G, Allan BF. Knowledge and prevention of tick-borne diseases vary across an urban-to-rural human land-use gradient. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases , 4:352-8.
Schwartz RD, Bayles BR. US university response to H1N1: a study of access to online preparedness and response information. American Journal of Infection Control , 40:170-4.
Bayles BR, Brauman KA, Adkins JN, Allan BF, Ellis AM, Goldberg TL, Golden CD, Grigsby-Toussaint DS,
Myers SS, Osofsky SA, Ricketts TH, Ristaino J. Ecosystem services connect environmental change to human health outcomes.
Bayles BR, Brauman KA, Allan BF. The eco-epidemiological cascade of anthropogenic landscape change for human incidence of ehrlichiosis.
Bayles BR, Brauman KA. Ecosystem services at the nexus of environmental change and the global burden of disease: a scoping review.
DeClue R, Bayles BR. Geographic distribution of Lyme disease, Wisconsin.
Bayles BR, Lawrence SJ. Risk factors for mechanical ventilator use during periods of variable influenza activity.
P R E S E N T A T I O N S
Bayles BR, Brauman KA. Healthy ecosystems, healthy people: Using ecosystem services to link ecosystem processes to human health impacts. Ecological Society of America, 2013. Minneapolis, MN.
Bayles BR, Lawrence SJ. SOFA score variability by influenza season and ICU type. Infectious Disease Society of America, 2011. Boston, MA.
T E A C H I N G
Instructor , College of Health and Human Development, California State University-Northridge
 HSCI 488: Introduction to Epidemiology (2015)
Instructor , College of Health Sciences, Trident University International
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GHS 512: Bioterrorism and Human Security (2015)
RES 500: Research Methods for the Health Sciences (2015)
GHS 502: Fundamentals of Global Health (2014-15)
MPH 504: Introduction to Epidemiology (2014-15)
 MHS 506: Introduction to Biostatistics (2014-15)
Instructor , George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
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MPH 5003: Introduction to Biostatistics (2014)
MPH 5230: Applied Linear Modeling (2014)
Teaching Assistant , School of Public Health, Saint Louis University
 BST 510: General Linear Modeling (2012)

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S K I L L S a n d P R O F E S S I O N A L A C T I V I T I E S
Software Skills:
ArcGIS ▪ Epi Info ▪ GeoDa ▪ InVEST ▪ Microsoft Office Suite ▪ R ▪ SAS ▪ SaTScan ▪ SPSS
Courses and Workshops:
2015 Enhancing Risk Index-Driven Decision Tools for Managing Insect Transmitted Pathogens.
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). Pacific Grove, CA
2013
2008
Healthy Ecosystems and Healthy People: Bridging Disciplines to Understand Health Impacts of
Environmental Change. National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI). Nassau, Bahamas
International Health Summer Session, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Journal Reviewer: PLoS ONE
Memberships: Ecological Society of America
Awards and Honors:
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Saint Louis University Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2010-2012
Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council Travel Scholarship, 2010
John Muir College Provost’s Honors List, University of California-San Diego, 2006-2007