Gerardo Chowell-Puente
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Biometry, Cornell University
SHESC Theme: Biological, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Human Health
Field Specializations: Biostatistics, Mathematical Epidemiology
Regional Focus: International
Contact: Gerardo Chowell-Puente, MC 203R
Research:
Gerardo Chowell-Puente's work lies at the interface of epidemiology, mathematics, modeling and statistics. For the last few years, his emphasis has been on the connection of models to data to estimate epidemiological parameters and test public health policy.
Research Projects:
Culture, Health and Environment in Urban South Phoenix
Influenza in Mexico
Teaching:
Chowell-Puente co-teaches Introduction to Global Health with Professor A. Magdalena Hurtado.
Select Publications:
Chowell, G., Hyman, J. M., Bettencourt, L. M. A. & Castillo-Chavez, C. (Eds.) (2009). Mathematical and statistical estimation approaches in epidemiology. New York: Springer.
Chowell, G., Ammon, C. E., Hengartner, N. W. & Hyman, J. M. (2006). Transmission dynamics of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 in Geneva, Switzerland: Assessing the effects of hypothetical interventions. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 241(2), 193-204.
Chowell, G., Bettencourt, L.M.A., Johnson, N., Alonso, W. J. & Viboud, C. (2008). The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in England and Wales: Spatial patterns in transmissibility and mortality impact. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 275, 501-509.
Chowell, G., Castillo-Chavez, C., Fenimore, P. W., Kribs-Zaleta, C., Arriola, L. & Hyman, J. M. (2004). Model parameters and outbreak control for SARS. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10(7), 1258-1263.
Chowell, G., Fenimore, P. W., Castillo-Garsow, M. A. & Castillo-Chavez, C. (2003). SARS outbreaks in Ontario, Hong Kong and Singapore: the role of diagnosis and isolation as a control mechanism. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 224(1), 1-8.
Chowell, G., Hyman, J. M., Eubank, S. & Castillo-Chavez, C. (2003). Scaling laws for the movement of people between locations in a large city. Physical Review, E 68(6).
Chowell, G., Nishiura, H. & Bettencourt, L. M. A. (2007). Comparative estimation of the reproduction number for pandemic influenza from daily case notification data. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 4(12), 155-166.
