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Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar

MS, PhD

Infectious Diseases and Climate Change Epidemiologist

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Gabriel
Carrasco-Escobar

Associate Professor

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BIO

Associate Professor in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH). He serves as a board member of the Institute of Tropical Medicine “Alexander von Humboldt”, where he is also the Director of the Health Innovation Laboratory (InnovaLab). He holds an MS in Epidemiology from UPCH and a PhD in Public Health from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

In 2024, he was recognized as one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 in Latin America.​ His research lies at the interface of infectious diseases epidemiology, climate change, human mobility, and urban environment. He leverages a diverse set of methods such as causal inference, spatio-temporal analysis, machine learning and AI, and remote sensing to advance our understanding of infectious disease dynamics in complex environmental settings. In 2026, he was recognized as a Rockefeller Foundation fellow and selected for the Bellagio Center Residency, where he advances a Precision Surveillance framework to enable early detection and responses to climate-sensitive infectious diseases.

Interests

  • Infectious diseases and Global Health

  • Climate Change

  • Causal Inference

  • Health Data Science

  • Urban Health

  • Geospatial modeling & viz

  • Innovation & AI

Education

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PhD in Public Health, 2023

UC San Diego

 

MS in Epidemiology, 2016

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

 

BS in Biology, 2014

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

PUBLICATIONS

Total Publications

98

Publications in 2026

7

34

CONTÁCTANOS

imtavh.innovalab@oficinas-upch.pe

LID 408 - Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia,

Av. Honorio Delgado 430, Urb Ingeniería, Lima - Perú 

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