PhD, Demography, Princeton University, 2002
MA, Demography, Cedeplar/UFMG, Brazil, 1997
BS, Statistics, UERJ, Brazil

Fillinger U, Kannady K, William G, Vanek MJ, Dongus S, Nyika D, Geissbuhler Y, Chaki P, Govella N, Mathenge EM, Singer BH, Mshinda H, Lindsay SW, Tanner M, Mtasiwa D, Castro MC, Killeen GF. 2008. “A tool box for operational mosquito larval control: preliminary results and early lessons from the Urban Malaria Control Programme in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania”. Malaria Journal 7:20.

Castro MC. 2007. “Spatial Demography: an opportunity to improve policy making at diverse decision levels”. Population Research and Policy Review, 26: 477–509. (DOI 10.1007/s11113-007-9041-x) 

Dongus S, Nyika D, Kannady K, Mtasiwa D, Mshinda H, Fillinger U, Drescher AW, Tanner M, Castro MC, Killeen GF. 2007. “Participatory mapping of target areas to enable operational larval source management to suppress malaria vector mosquitoes in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania”. International Journal of Health Geographics, 6:37 (4 September 2007).

Singer BH, Castro MC. 2007. “Bridges to Sustainable Tropical Health”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(41): 16038-16043.

Castro MC, Singer BH. 2007. “Meio ambiente e saúde: metolodogia para análise espacial da ocorrência de malária em projetos de assentamento”. Revista Brasileira de Estudos Populacionais, 24(2): 247-262.

Geissbuhler Y, Chaki P, Emidi B, Govella N, Shirima R, Mayagaya V, Mtasiwa D, Mshinda H, Fillinger U, Lindsay SW, Kannady K, Castro MC, Tanner M, Killeen GF. 2007. “Interdependence of domestic malaria prevention measures and mosquito human interactions in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania”. Malaria Journal 2007, 6:126 (19 Sep 2007) 

Castro MC, Sawyer DO, Singer BH. 2007. “Spatial patterns of malaria in the Amazon: implications for surveillance and targeted interventions”. Health and Place, 13:368-380. (DOI 10.1016/j.healthplace.2006.03.006)

Castro MC, Singer BH. 2006. “A new approach to account for multiple and dependent tests in local statistics of spatial association: controlling the false discovery rate”. Geographical Analysis, 38(2): 180-208.

Killeen GF, Tanner M, Mukabana WR, Kalongolela MS, Kannady K, Lindsay SW, Fillinger U, Castro MC. 2006. “Habitat targeting for controlling aquatic stages of malaria vectors in Africa”. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 74(4): 517-518.

Mukabana WR, Kannady K, Kiama, GM, Ijumba JN, Mathenge EM, Kiche I, Nkwengulila G, Mboera L, Mtasiwa D, Yamagata Y, Schayk I, Knols BGJ, Lindsay SW, Castro MC, Mshinda H, Tanner M, Fillinger U, Killeen GF. 2006. “Ecologists can enable communities to implement malaria vector control in Africa”. Malaria Journal 5:9.

Castro MC, Monte-Mór, RL, Sawyer, DO, Singer, BH. 2006. “Malaria risk on the Amazon Frontier”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(7): 2452-2457.

Singer B, Castro MC. "Enhancement and suppression of malaria in the Amazon". 2006. American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, 74(1): 12.

Erlanger TE, Keiser J, Castro MC, Bos R, Singer BH, Tanner M, and Utzinger J. 2005. Effect of water resource development and management on lymphatic filariasis, and estimates of populations at risk”. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 73(3): 523-533.

Castro MC, Singer BH. 2005. “Was malaria present in the Amazon before the conquest? Getting to a definitive answer”. Journal of Archaeological Science 32: 337-340.

Keiser J, Castro MC, Maltese MF, Bos R, Tanner M, Singer BH, Utzinger J. 2005. "Effect of irrigation and large dams on the burden of malaria on global and regional scale". American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 72(4): 392-406.

Castro MC, Yamagata Y, Mtasiwa D, Tanner M, Utzinger J, Keiser J, Singer BH. 2004. “Integrated Urban Malaria Control: a Case Study In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania”. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 71(Suppl 2): 103 117.

Keiser J, Utzinger J, Castro MC, Smith T, Tanner M, Singer BH. 2004. “Urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa and implications for malaria control”. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 71(Suppl 2): 118 127.

Guelich JM, Singer BH, Castro MC, Rosenberg LE. 2002. “A gender gap in the next generation of physician-scientists: medical student interest and participation in research”. Journal of Investigative Medicine, 50(6):412-418.

Ávila JBC, Castro MC, Mayrink ALV. 2002. “Indicadores de Acidentes do Trabalho: Ranking das Atividades Econômicas - Média do Triênio 1997/1999”. Revista de Previdência Social, XXVI(262):770-778.

Castro MC. 2001. “Changes in mortality and life expectancy: some methodological issues”. Mathematical Population Studies, 9:181-208.

Singer BH, Castro MC. 2001. “Agricultural colonization and malaria on the Amazon frontier”. In: Weinstein M, Hermalin AI, Stoto MA (eds.) Population Health and Aging: strengthening the dialogue between epidemiology and demography. Annuals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 954:184-222.