Claudia T. Codeco

Claudia Codeço is a Senior Researcher in Public Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz/Brazil). She has published more than 100 articles in epidemiology and ecology of climate-sensitive diseases. She is a MSc and PhD advisor at the Epidemiology in Public Health Program and Tropical Medicine Program at Fiocruz. Claudia has served as a consultant for the Brazilian Ministry of Health during several public health emergencies, including zika, H1N1, and covid19. Claudia has a BSc in Biology and PhD in Quantitative Ecology. Her PhD in freshwater ecology and biomathematics provided the background for innovative work on cholera modelling, linking environment and transmission dynamics. When dengue emerged as a public health problem, Claudia joined with entomologists and epidemiologists to design field and laboratory studies to infer parameters for dengue mathematical models. In 2008-2011, she lead a multicenter project to increase the interaction between mathematicians and epidemiologists in Brazil to strength the field of mathematical epidemiology. Since 2014, she co-leads the Infodengue system that applies model-based indicators to dengue surveillance, providing early warnings at local and national level. Since 2010, Claudia has also dedicated to landscape epidemiology, a field that studies the relationships between the dynamics of diseases to the social and ecological landscape. She has studied the ruralization of dengue in the Amazon region, and the persistence of malaria in areas of the Amazon region transformed by economic activities and settlement programs. During this period, she participated in scientific synthesis groups at NCEAS, SESYNC and Sinbiose/CNPq dedicated to epidemiology, climate-sensitive diseases, and drivers of land use and land cover change. She is currently leader of the Trajetorias group, a scientific synthesis project devoted to studying the economic, epidemiological and ecological trajectories of the Amazonian municipalities within the framework of Planetary Health. She currently participates on the Wellcome Trust digital technology, climate, and health projects, HARMONIZE and IDExtremes, which aim to provide robust data and modelling tools to build local resilience against emerging infectious disease threats in climate change hotspots.