Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccination by age.
Castro MC, Singer B.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 04 13. 118(15). PMID: 33731429
Professor
Marcia C.de Castro
Other Positions
Chair, Department of Global Health and Population
Global Health and Population
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Bibliography
Assessing the performance of beneficiary targeting in Brazil's More Doctors Programme.
Özçelik EA, Massuda A, McConnell M, Castro MC.
Health Policy Plan. 2021 Mar 26. 36(2):149-161. PMID: 33448298
Cross-border malaria in Northern Brazil.
Arisco NJ, Peterka C, Castro MC.
Malar J. 2021 Mar 06. 20(1):135. PMID: 33676522
Bayesian evidence synthesis to estimate subnational TB incidence: An application in Brazil.
Chitwood MH, Pelissari DM, Drummond Marques da Silva G, Bartholomay P, Rocha MS, Sanchez M, Arakaki-Sanchez D, Glaziou P, Cohen T, Castro MC, Menzies NA.
Epidemics. 2021 Feb 20. 35:100443. PMID: 33676092
Prenatal care and preterm birth in the Western Brazilian Amazon: A population-based study.
Ramos de Oliveira CV, Neves PAR, Lourenço BH, Medeiros de Souza R, Malta MB, Fujimori E, Cardoso MA, Castro MC.
Glob Public Health. 2021 Jan 10. 1-12. PMID: 33427077
Predicting Aedes aegypti infestation using landscape and thermal features.
Lorenz C, Castro MC, Trindade PMP, Nogueira ML, de Oliveira Lage M, Quintanilha JA, Parra MC, Dibo MR, Fávaro EA, Guirado MM, Chiaravalloti-Neto F.
Sci Rep. 2020 12 10. 10(1):21688. PMID: 33303912
Impact of Brazil's More Doctors Program on hospitalizations for primary care sensitive cardiovascular conditions.
Özçelik EA, Massuda A, McConnell M, Castro MC.
SSM Popul Health. 2020 Dec. 12:100695. PMID: 33319027
Emerging arboviruses in the urbanized Amazon rainforest.
Lowe R, Lee S, Martins Lana R, Torres Codeço C, Castro MC, Pascual M.
BMJ. 2020 11 13. 371:m4385. PMID: 33187952
Spatiotemporal transmission dynamics of co-circulating dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses in Fortaleza, Brazil: 2011-2017.
Kazazian L, Lima Neto AS, Sousa GS, Nascimento OJD, Castro MC.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 10. 14(10):e0008760. PMID: 33104708
Crowding and the shape of COVID-19 epidemics.
Rader B, Scarpino SV, Nande A, Hill AL, Adlam B, Reiner RC, Pigott DM, Gutierrez B, Zarebski AE, Shrestha M, Brownstein JS, Castro MC, Dye C, Tian H, Pybus OG, Kraemer MUG.
Nat Med. 2020 12. 26(12):1829-1834. PMID: 33020651
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