- Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension||Urban Agriculture & Food Safety
- Department of Population Health and Reproduction
4209 Vet Med 3B
Bio
Dr. Pires’ research focuses on developing and applying epidemiological tools to monitor food safety hazards and identify mitigation strategies to reduce the dissemination of foodborne pathogens in pre-harvest and the spread of infectious diseases in agricultural systems (including integrated crop-livestock, diversified, organic farms, small-scale and backyard farms).