
Laboratorio de
Innovación en salud

Gabriel
Carrasco-Escobar
Assistant Professor
BIO
Assistant Professor in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and Titular Researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH). Gabriel Carrasco is the director of the Health Innovation Laboratory and a board member of CLIMA, the Center for Latin-American Research on Climate Change and Health, both at UPCH.
At UC San Diego (UCSD), he is currently a joint postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) and the School Of Global Policy And Strategy (GPS). He earned his MS in Epidemiology at UPCH and his PhD in Public Health at 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