Assistant Professor in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and Titular Researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH). Gabriel Carrasco is the director of the Health Innovation Laboratory and a board member of CLIMA, the Center for Latin-American Research on Climate Change and Health, both at UPCH.

At UC San Diego (UCSD), he is currently a joint postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) and the School Of Global Policy And Strategy (GPS). He earned his MS in Epidemiology at UPCH and his PhD in Public Health at UCSD.

His research lies at the interface of infectious diseases epidemiology, human mobility, environmental determinants, climate change, and urban development. He uses a wide range of methods such as causal inference, spatio-temporal analysis, and remote sensing to forward our understanding of infectious disease dynamics in complex environmental settings.