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Marcia C. Castro is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has a significant body of research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions, Modeling and Simulation, and Epidemiology.

The primary topics covered in Marcia C. Castro's research encompass mosquito-borne diseases and control, malaria research and control, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, global maternal and child health, healthcare systems and reforms, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and the impact of COVID-19 on reproduction.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Marcia C. Castro include:

  • Resurgence of COVID-19 in Manaus, Brazil, despite high seroprevalence (2021, The Lancet)
  • Three-quarters attack rate of SARS-CoV-2 in the Brazilian Amazon during a largely unmitigated epidemic (2021, Science)
  • Effect of socioeconomic inequalities and vulnerabilities on health-system preparedness and response to COVID-19 in Brazil: a comprehensive analysis (2021, The Lancet Global Health)
  • Spatiotemporal pattern of COVID-19 spread in Brazil (2021, Science)
  • Spatial analysis of COVID-19 clusters and contextual factors in New York City (2020, Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology)

Frequent co-authors include Marly Augusto Cardoso, Márcia Maria Tavares Machado, Marcelo U. Ferreira, Nicolas A. Menzies, and Mauro Niskier Sanchez. These collaborations highlight a sustained network within Marcia C. Castro's areas of research focus.

Marcia C. Castro has published extensively in several notable scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Nature Medicine
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Research Square (Research Square)

The research conducted by Marcia C. Castro integrates epidemiological data, modeling approaches, and public health perspectives. Their work on COVID-19 has included analyzing infection rates, socio-economic factors affecting health system response, and geographic spread patterns. Earlier research contributions also involve vector-borne diseases such as malaria, consistent with their focus on global and environmental health issues.

Best Publications

  • Brazil's unified health system: the first 30 years and prospects for the future.

    Marcia C Castro;Adriano Massuda;Adriano Massuda;Gisele Almeida;Naercio Aquino Menezes-Filho;Naercio Aquino Menezes-Filho

  • The Brazilian health system at crossroads: progress, crisis and resilience.

    Adriano Massuda;Thomas Hone;Fernando Antonio Gomes Leles;Marcia C de Castro

  • Three-quarters attack rate of SARS-CoV-2 in the Brazilian Amazon during a largely unmitigated epidemic.

    Lewis F Buss;Carlos A Prete;Claudia M M Abrahim;Alfredo Mendrone

  • URBANIZATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND IMPLICATION FOR MALARIA CONTROL

    Jennifer Keiser;Jürg Utzinger;Marcia Caldas De Castro;Thomas A. Smith

  • EFFECT OF IRRIGATION AND LARGE DAMS ON THE BURDEN OF MALARIA ON A GLOBAL AND REGIONAL SCALE

    Jennifer Keiser;Marcia Caldas De Castro;Michael F. Maltese;Robert Bos

  • Effect of socioeconomic inequalities and vulnerabilities on health-system preparedness and response to COVID-19 in Brazil: a comprehensive analysis.

    Rudi Rocha;Rifat Atun;Adriano Massuda;Beatriz Rache

  • Preparing for Resettlement Associated with Climate Change

    A. de Sherbinin;M. Castro;F. Gemenne;M. M. Cernea

  • Controlling the False Discovery Rate: A New Application to Account for Multiple and Dependent Tests in Local Statistics of Spatial Association

    Marcia Caldas de Castro;Burton H. Singer

  • Spatiotemporal pattern of COVID-19 spread in Brazil.

    Marcia C. Castro;Sun Kim;Lorena Barberia;Ana Freitas Ribeiro

  • Malaria risk on the Amazon frontier

    Marcia Caldas de Castro;Roberto L. Monte-Mór;Diana O. Sawyer;Burton H. Singer

  • Crowding and the shape of COVID-19 epidemics.

    Benjamin Rader;Benjamin Rader;Samuel V. Scarpino;Samuel V. Scarpino;Anjalika Nande;Alison L. Hill;Alison L. Hill

  • Spatial analysis of COVID-19 clusters and contextual factors in New York City.

    Jack Cordes;Marcia C. Castro

  • Microbial Larvicide Application by a Large-Scale, Community-Based Program Reduces Malaria Infection Prevalence in Urban Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

    Yvonne Geissbühler;Yvonne Geissbühler;Khadija Kannady;Prosper Pius Chaki;Prosper Pius Chaki;Basiliana Emidi

  • Challenges for malaria elimination in Brazil

    Marcelo U. Ferreira;Marcia C. Castro

  • Integrated Urban Malaria Control: A Case Study in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

    Marcia Caldas De Castro;Yoichi Yamagata;Deo Mtasiwa;Marcel Tanner

  • Disease and economic burdens of dengue

    Marcia C Castro;Mary E Wilson;Mary E Wilson;David E Bloom

  • Interdependence of domestic malaria prevention measures and mosquito-human interactions in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

    Yvonne Geissbuhler;Prosper Pius Chaki;Basiliana Emidi;Nicodemus J Govella

  • Informal Urban Settlements and Cholera Risk in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Katherine Penrose;Marcia Caldas de Castro;Japhet Werema;Edward T. Ryan

  • A spatial analysis of social and economic determinants of tuberculosis in Brazil

    Guy Harling;Marcia C. Castro

  • Mapping populations at risk: improving spatial demographic data for infectious disease modeling and metric derivation

    Andrew Tatem;Andrew Tatem;Susana Beatriz Adamo;Nita Bharti;Clara R. Burgert

  • Implementation of 5S management method for lean healthcare at a health center in Senegal: a qualitative study of staff perception

    Shogo Kanamori;Seydou Sow;Marcia C. Castro;Rui Matsuno

Frequent Co-Authors

Burton H. Singer
Burton H. Singer University of Florida
Marcelo U. Ferreira
Marcelo U. Ferreira Universidade de São Paulo
Joseph M. Vinetz
Joseph M. Vinetz Yale University
Moritz U G Kraemer
Moritz U G Kraemer University of Oxford
Nuno Rodrigues Faria
Nuno Rodrigues Faria Imperial College London
Oliver G. Pybus
Oliver G. Pybus University of Oxford
Dustin T. Duncan
Dustin T. Duncan Columbia University
Andrew J. Tatem
Andrew J. Tatem University of Southampton
Rifat Atun
Rifat Atun Harvard University
Ester C. Sabino
Ester C. Sabino Universidade de São Paulo

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