Her primary research interests include environmental and ecological drivers of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases as well as spatio-temporal predictions of risk. Among specified areas of risk, Dr. Diuk-Wasser focuses on environmental drivers of pathogen transmission dynamics. Her research includes generating a spatial risk map of Lyme disease in the United States, modeling West Nile virus (WNV) transmission in Connecticut and studying how climate, landscape and host diversity affect vector host-feeding behavior. Her disease study systems are WNV, Lyme disease, malaria and dengue fever. Other interests include landscape ecology and genetics, animal and human behavior and conservation biology.