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Research Interests
Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Genomic Epidemiology, Disease Ecology, Dynamic & Predictive Disease Modeling, Molecular Evolution, Geospatial Science, Pathogen Genomics, One Health.
Awards and Honors
Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award - 2026
Recent Publications
Bajwa, H. U. R., S. Bhowmick, and C. Varga. 2026. Mapping High-Rate Clusters of Animal Contact-Related Human Salmonella enterica Single-State Outbreaks in the United States, 2009–2022: A Spatial Epidemiological Approach to Inform Public Health Surveillance. Zoonoses and Public Health 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.70071.
Bajwa HUR, Bhowmick S, Varga C (2026). Multistate animal-contact-related nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica outbreaks in the United States, 2009–2022: Network and machine learning analyses of exposure sources, settings, and serovars. PLoS One 21(6): e0344889. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0344889
Bajwa HUR, Bhowmick S and Varga C (2026). Animal contact-related nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica outbreaks in humans in the U.S. (2009–2022): serovar-specific temporal trends and associations with exposure sources and settings. Front. Public Health 14:1755882. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1755882