- Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
- Chair, Department of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Field:
Expertise:
Emerging infections, urban slum and health, Zika virus and congenital Zika syndrome, leptospirosis, vaccine preventable diseases
Description:
My research centers on the health problems that have emerged as a consequence of rapid urbanization and social inequity. I coordinate a research program on urban slum health in Brazil and investigates infectious disease threats such as rat-borne leptospirosis, which is as a paradigm for an infectious disease that has emerged due to the interaction of climate, urban ecology and social marginalization. Since December 2016, my program and I have mobilized our efforts to investigate the Zika pandemic and epidemic of microcephaly and birth defects in Brazil.