Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar

MS, PhD(c)

Infectious Diseases and Global Health researcher

Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar

Assistant Professor

Institute of Tropical Medicine "Alexander vo Humboldt", Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

UC San Diego

BIO

Assistant Professor in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and Associate Researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH). Gabriel Carrasco is currently the director of the Health Innovation Lab and a board member of CLIMA, the Center for Latin-American Research on Climate Change and Health, both at UPCH. He earned his MS in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, UPCH and is currently a PhD candidate in Public Health at the University of California, San Diego (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.