Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Staff Member


Dr. Riley O Mummah

Post Doc
Email: rmummah@usgs.gov

Education

  • Ph D University of California, Los Angeles 2021
  • MS University of California, Los Angeles 2020
  • MS The Pennsylvania State University 2016
  • BS The Pennsylvania State University 2016
  • BS The Pennsylvania State University 2016
  • BS The Pennsylvania State University 2016
Research Publications Publication Date
Sura, S. A., Smith, L. L., Ambrose, M. R., Amorim, C. E. G., Beichman, A. C., Gomez, A. C. R., Juhn, M., Kandlikar, G. S., Miller, J. S., Mooney, J., Mummah, R. O., Lohmueller, K. E., & Lloyd-Smith, J. O. (2019). Ten simple rules for giving an effective academic job talk. PLOS Computational Biology, 15(7), e1007163. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007163 July 2019
Mummah, R. O., Hoff, N. A., Rimoin, A. W., & Lloyd-Smith, J. O. (2020). Controlling emerging zoonoses at the animal-human interface. One Health Outlook, 2(1), 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42522-020-00024-5 September 2020
Li, S.-L., Bjørnstad, O. N., Ferrari, M. J., Mummah, R., Runge, M. C., Fonnesbeck, C. J., Tildesley, M. J., Probert, W. J. M., & Shea, K. (2017). Essential information: Uncertainty and optimal control of Ebola outbreaks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(22), 5659–5664. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1617482114 May 2017
Helman, S. K., Mummah, R. O., Gostic, K. M., Buhnerkempe, M. G., Prager, K. C., & Lloyd‐Smith, J. O. (2020). Estimating prevalence and test accuracy in disease ecology: How Bayesian latent class analysis can boost or bias imperfect test results. Ecology and Evolution, 10(14), 7221–7232. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6448 March 2020
Griffin, C., Mummah, R., & deForest, R. (2021). A finite population destroys a traveling wave in spatial replicator dynamics. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 146, 110847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2021.110847 May 2021
Gostic, K., Gomez, A. C., Mummah, R. O., Kucharski, A. J., & Lloyd-Smith, J. O. (2020). Estimated effectiveness of symptom and risk screening to prevent the spread of COVID-19. ELife, 9, e55570. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55570 February 2020