Professor Marcia Castro, PhD, has co-authored a study that looks at the strategy used in South Korea as of May 31, 2020 to contain COVID-19.
Spatiotemporal analysis depicts and confirms South Korea’s effective COVID-19 containment strategy
Marcia Castro and David Williams named as new department chairs
Congratulations to faculty members Marcia Castro and David Williams on being named as chairs of the Department of Global Health and Population, and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, respectively. Learn more in this release by the Harvard Chan School Dean, Michelle Williams.
Marcia Castro authors book chapter: MALARIA IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Marcia Castro, PhD, has authored a chapter in the book Water and Sanitation‐Related Diseases and the Changing Environment: Challenges, Interventions, and Preventive Measures, Second Edition. Castro examines the context of the steady rise in malaria cases in the Brazlian Amazon with the intention of shedding light on strategies to minimize the transmission of the disease.
What impact did the Zika virus have on birth rate in Brazil?
Faculty member Marcia Castro is author on a study published in PNAS that finds that there was a significant decline in births in Brazil after the onset of the Zika virus.