Bio
Education:
- PhD, Imperial College London, London, UK
- MD, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
Interests:
Diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases as well as cardiometabolic risk factors. Global health, epidemiology, and population health. Analytics: data pooling, secondary analyses, national health surveys, population-based epidemiological studies, artificial intelligence (machine learning, deep learning), systematic reviews and meta-analysis. My academic work has primarily concentrated on Latin American countries.
Areas of Interest
- Epidemiology
- Non-communicable Diseases
- Diabetes
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Cardiometabolic Diseases
- Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
- Population Sciences
- Health Disparities
- Latino Health
- Disease Surveillance
Education
- PhD, Imperial College London, London, UK
- MD, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
Affiliations
Emory Global Diabetes Research Center (https://diabetes.emory.edu/)
Emory University AI.Humanity (https://aihumanity.emory.edu/index.html)
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (https://www.ncdrisc.org/)
In The News
New & Notable
Obesity Prevalence Would Shift Significantly Under Proposed New Criteria, Study Finds
An international team of researchers found the prevalence of obesity would shift significantly under a proposed change to how obesity is defined, highlighting concerns that the new criteria could hinder the prevention and early detection of serious health conditions.
Recent Rollins Publications
Recent publications from Rollins faculty, staff, and students.