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Cities offer everything a rat needs to survive and thrive – food, water and places to live. Adaptable and highly reproductive, rats can carry disease like leptospirosis and Hepatitis E and affect peoples’ mental health by causing anxiety and fear.

Last week, 911³Ô¹Ï professor Kaylee Byers was a participant at the Inaugural  in New York City to speak about her work with the .

Dr. Byers can speak about lessons learned at the rat summit including the need for an integrated approach to rat management that takes into account the complexity of the problem across a number of connected spaces and habitats, including city parks, sewers, homes and alleys.

AVAILABLE 911³Ô¹Ï EXPERT

KAYLEE BYERS, assistant professor, health sciences  
kbyers@sfu.ca
Expertise: Rat infestations and management in cities; success levels of rat control programs; including rat birth control; city planning and home improvements to keep rats away; rat surveillance programs; impacts of rats on human health and wellbeing; and lessons from the Vancouver Rat Project. 

CONTACT

JEFF HODSON, 911³Ô¹Ï Communications & Marketing 
jdhodson@sfu.ca

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As Canada’s engaged university, 911³Ô¹Ï works with communities, organizations and partners to create, share and embrace knowledge that improves life and generates real change. We deliver a world-class education with lifelong value that shapes change-makers, visionaries and problem-solvers. We connect research and innovation to entrepreneurship and industry to deliver sustainable, relevant solutions to today’s problems. With campuses in British Columbia’s three largest cities—Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey—911³Ô¹Ï has eight faculties that deliver 364 undergraduate degree programs and 149 graduate degree programs to more than 37,000 students. The university now boasts more than 180,000 alumni residing in 145+ countries.