About Prof. Marcia Caldas de Castro
Prof. Marcia Caldas de Castro is the Andelot Professor of Demography and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director of the Brazil Studies Program :contentReference. A pioneering Brazilian epidemiologist, she is renowned for her multidisciplinary research on malaria and other vector-borne diseases, urbanization, spatial modeling, and the environmental impacts of Amazonian development.
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She is a trailblazer—the first Brazilian woman professor at Harvard—and leads efforts in demography, GIS-based spatial analysis, environmental remote sensing, and vector-control interventions across the Brazilian Amazon, Tanzania, and Ghana.
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Vector‑borne Disease Dynamics
Modeling malaria transmission and risk factors across ecological and urban settings to inform control strategies.
Environmental & Spatial Epidemiology
Using GIS, remote sensing, and spatial statistics to map disease risk and assess environmental interventions.
Population & Development
Investigating the health and social impacts of Amazon frontier expansion, urbanization, and infrastructure projects.
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