Nita Bharti

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Titles and Affiliations
Associate Professor And Lloyd Huck Early Career Professor, Biology

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Recent Publications

Multiple environmental conditions precede Ebola spillovers in Central Africa

Baranowski, K. & Bharti, N., Jan 28 2026, In: Biology Letters. 22, 1, 20250654.

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Links between infrastructure for human movement and early Ebola outbreak trajectories

Gonzalez, A., Nikparvar, B., Matson, M. J., Baranowski, K., Seifert, S. N., Ross, H. D., Munster, V. & Bharti, N., Dec 2026, In: Scientific reports. 16, 1, 3920.

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Latent class analysis identifies risk groups to model the expected benefits of SARS-CoV-2 interventions among university students

Arnold, C. R. K., Bharti, N., Exten, C., Small, M., Srinivasan, S., Kuchipudi, S. V., Kapur, V. & Ferrari, M. J., Dec 2025, In: Scientific reports. 15, 1, 11199.

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Impact of a multi-pronged cholera intervention in an endemic setting

Blake, A., Walder, A., Hanks, E. M., Welo, P. O., Luquero, F., Bompangue, D. & Bharti, N., Feb 2025, In: PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 19, 2, e0012867.

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Behavioral interventions and respiratory virus incidence in a two-cohort study

Nikparvar, B., Exten, C. & Bharti, N., Dec 2025, In: Scientific reports. 15, 1, 31595.

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Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats

Pei, S., Yu, P., Raghwani, J., Wang, Y., Liu, Z., Li, Y., Cheng, Y., Lin, Q., Song, C., Dharmarajan, G., Faust, C. L., Tian, Y., Xu, Y., Liang, Y., Qu, J., Wei, J., Li, S., Zhang, T., Ma, C. & Bharti, N. & 6 others, Cazelles, B., Yang, R., Pybus, O. G., Dobson, A. P., Stenseth, N. C. & Tian, H., Jan 2025, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 9, 1, p. 99-110 12 p., e2023540118.

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Native and non-native winter foraging resources do not explain Pteropus alecto winter roost occupancy in Queensland, Australia

Baranowski, K. & Bharti, N., 2024, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 12, 1483865.

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College students’ COVID-19 vaccine beliefs and intentions: Implications for interventions

Small, M. L., Lennon, R. P., Dziak, J. J., Smith, R. A., Sommerville, G. & Bharti, N., 2024, In: Journal of American College Health. 72, 4, p. 989-994 6 p.

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Habitat loss for black flying foxes and implications for Hendra virus

Baranowski, K. & Bharti, N., Jun 2023, In: Landscape Ecology. 38, 6, p. 1605-1618 14 p.

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Disparities in mobile phone ownership reflect inequities in access to healthcare

Blake, A., Hazel, A., Jakurama, J., Matundu, J. & Bharti, N., Jul 2023, In: PLOS Digital Health. 2, 7, e0000270.

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Environmental variation across multiple spatial scales and temporal lags influences Hendra virus spillover

Faust, C. L., Castellanos, A. A., Peel, A. J., Eby, P., Plowright, R. K., Han, B. A. & Bharti, N., Jul 2023, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 60, 7, p. 1457-1467 11 p.

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COVID-19 Mitigation Among College Students: Social Influences, Behavioral Spillover, and Antibody Results

Smith, R. A., Small, M. L., Bharti, N., DeMatte, S. J., Lennon, R. P. & Ferrari, M. J., 2023, In: Health Communication. 38, 10, p. 2002-2011 10 p.

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A longitudinal study of the impact of university student return to campus on the SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among the community members

Arnold, C. R. K., Srinivasan, S., Rodriguez, S., Rydzak, N., Herzog, C. M., Gontu, A., Bharti, N., Small, M., Rogers, C. J., Schade, M. M., Kuchipudi, S. V., Kapur, V., Read, A. F. & Ferrari, M. J., Dec 2022, In: Scientific reports. 12, 1, 8586.

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Large university with high COVID-19 incidence is not associated with excess cases in non-student population

Bharti, N., Lambert, B., Exten, C., Faust, C., Ferrari, M. & Robinson, A., Dec 2022, In: Scientific reports. 12, 1, 3313.

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Author Correction: Ecology, evolution and spillover of coronaviruses from bats (Nature Reviews Microbiology, (2022), 20, 5, (299-314), 10.1038/s41579-021-00652-2)

Ruiz-Aravena, M., McKee, C., Gamble, A., Lunn, T., Morris, A., Snedden, C. E., Yinda, C. K., Port, J. R., Buchholz, D. W., Yeo, Y. Y., Faust, C., Jax, E., Dee, L., Jones, D. N., Kessler, M. K., Falvo, C., Crowley, D., Bharti, N., Brook, C. E. & Aguilar, H. C. & 9 others, Peel, A. J., Restif, O., Schountz, T., Parrish, C. R., Gurley, E. S., Lloyd-Smith, J. O., Hudson, P. J., Munster, V. J. & Plowright, R. K., May 2022, In: Nature Reviews Microbiology. 20, 5, p. 315 1 p.

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