Gabriel
Carrasco-Escobar
Associate Professor
BIO
Associate Professor in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and Director of the Health Innovation Laboratory at the Institute of Tropical Medicine “Alexander von Humboldt”, both at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH). He serves as a board member of CLIMA, the Center for Latin-American Research on Climate Change and Health. He holds an MS in Epidemiology from UPCH and a PhD in Public Health from UCSD.
His research lies at the interface of infectious diseases epidemiology, human mobility, environmental determinants, climate change, and urban development. He uses a wide range of methods such as causal inference, spatio-temporal analysis, and remote sensing to forward our understanding of infectious disease dynamics in complex environmental settings.
Interests
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Infectious diseases and global health research
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Causal Inference
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Health Data Science
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Climate Change
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Urban Health
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Geospatial modeling & viz
Education
PhD in Public Health, 2023
UC San Diego
MS in Epidemiology, 2016
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
BS in Biology, 2014
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia