
Gabriel
Carrasco-Escobar
Associate Professor
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.
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