Director de Investigación | Profesor asociado
Email: eundurra@uc.cl
Áreas de interés:
Salud global, economía de la salud, modelación, pobreza y desigualdad, enfermedades infecciosas, resistencia antimicrobiana.
Eduardo A. Undurraga es Profesor Asociado y Director de Investigación en la Escuela de Gobierno UC. Ingeniero civil UC y magíster en estudios sociales y políticos latinoamericanos por la U. Alberto Hurtado, Eduardo obtuvo su doctorado en políticas sociales en Brandeis University como becario Fulbright. En 2023, recibió el Premio Dr. Eduardo Charreau 2023 a la Cooperación Científico-Tecnológica Regional (Estímulo), otorgado por la Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI).
Su investigación conecta las ciencias sociales y la salud humana, con énfasis en poblaciones marginalizadas de América Latina. Su trabajo se centra en: (i) los efectos de factores sociales y culturales en la salud, (ii) la dinámica y economía de las enfermedades infecciosas, y (iii) la evaluación de programas e intervenciones en salud pública. Con un enfoque interdisciplinario y colaborativo, ha publicado más de 130 artículos científicos, incluyendo revistas emblemáticas como The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, The Lancet, y PNAS. Su trabajo ha sido destacado en medios internacionales como BBC, CNN International, Der Spiegel, O Globo, Scientific American, South China Morning Post, The Economist, The New York Times, y The Washington Post. Eduardo colaborado en la evaluación de políticas de salud pública con gobiernos locales y nacionales, y organizaciones internacionales, incluyendo Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative, CDC Foundation, UNICEF, y la Organización Mundial de la Salud.
Anteriormente, fue Luksic Scholar en el David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), Harvard University (2022-2023), Azrieli Global Scholar, Humans and the Microbiome (2021-2023) del Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness Fellow en el Health Economics and Modeling Unit, del US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015-2017), y Senior Research Associate en el Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, Brandeis University (2014-2015). También ha sido investigador en centros asociativos, como el Multidisciplinary Initiative for Collaborative Research on Bacterial Pathogens and Resistance (MICROB-R) (2019-2024), Centro de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada del Riesgo de Desastres (CIGIDEN) (2021-2024), Núcleo Milenio para el Estudio del Curso de Vida y la Vulnerabilidad (2018-2021), y la Red Iberoamericana para el Estudio de la Psicosis Precoz (ANDES) (2018-2021).
2024
Allel K., Peters A., Haghparast H., (…), Munita J.M., Undurraga E.A. (2024). Excess burden of antibiotic-resistant bloodstream infections: evidence from a multicentre retrospective cohort study in Chile, 2018-2022. The Lancet Regional Health Americas, in press.
Parra E., Bello-Piruccini S., Rodríguez K., Duarte C. Torres M., Undurraga E.A. (2024). Serologically confirmed human leptospirosis in Colombia, 2015-2020. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 111, 4, 856-864.
Allel K., Peters A., Furuya, L., (…), Munita J.M., Undurraga E.A. (2024). Impact of inappropriate empirical antibiotic therapy on mortality: A retrospective multicentre cohort study of patients with bloodstream infections in Chile, 2018-2022. BMJ Public Health, in press.
Bosch T.C.G., Wigley M, Colomina B., Bohannan B., Meggers F, et al. (2024). The potential importance of the built-environment microbiome and its impact on human health. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121, 20, e2313971121.
Jacoby N., Polak R., Grahn J.A., Cameron D.J., Lee, K.M., Godoy R.A., Undurraga E.A. et al. (2024). Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries. Nature Human Behavior, 8, 846-877.
Biehl A., Cabib I., Undurraga E.A., Abufhele A. (2024). Understanding vulnerable and multiple life courses across Latin America. Sociologie, 4, 15.
GBD 2020 Global Nutrition Targets Collaborators. (2024) Global, regional, and national progress towards the 2030 global nutrition targets and forecasts to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet, in press.
Allel K., Hernández M.J., Day L., Undurraga E.A., Jaoude G.J.A., et al. (2024). Cost-effectiveness and cost components of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions affecting antibiotic resistance outcomes in hospital patients: A systematic literature review. BMJ Global Health, 9, e013205.
Ferrari A.J., Santomauro D.F., Aali A., Abate H., et al. (2024) Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet, 403, 10440, 2133-2161.
Godoy R.A., Bauchet J., Behrman J.R., (…) Undurraga E.A., Zycherman A. (2024) Changes in adult well-being and economic inequalities: An exploratory observational longitudinal study (2002-2010) among Tsimane’, a small-scale rural society of Indigenous People in the Bolivian Amazon. World Development, 176, 106518.
2023
Jara A., Cuadrado C., Undurraga E.A., García C., et al. (2023) Effectiveness and duration of second COVID-19 vaccine booster: a large-scale prospective cohort study during the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron outbreak in Chile. Nature Communications, 14, 6836.
Undurraga E.A., Peters A., Arias C.A., Munita J.M. (2023) Lives lost and disease burden related to antimicrobial resistance in the Americas can no longer be ignored. The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, 26: 100596.
Errázuriz A., Avello-Vega D., Ramirez J.P., Torres R., Crossley N.A., Undurraga E.A., Jones P.B. (2023). Prevalence of depressive disorder in Latin America: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Regional Health Americas, 26, 100587.
Tropini C., Finlay B.B., Nichter M., Melby M.K., Metcalf J.L., et al. (2023). Time to rethink academic publishing: the peer-reviewer crisis. mBio, in press.
Allel K., Labarca J., Carvajal C., García P., Cifuentes M., Silva F., Munita JM, Undurraga E.A.† (2023) Trends and socioeconomic, demographic, and environmental factors associated with antimicrobial resistance: a longitudinal analysis in 39 hospitals in Chile 2008-2017. The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, 21, 100484.
Zugman A., Alliende L.M., Medel V., Bethlehem R.A.I., Seidlitz J. et al. (2023) Country-level gender inequality and structural differences in the brains of women and men. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, e2218782120.
Allel K., Peters A., Conejeros J., Martinez JRW, (…), Undurraga E.A.†, Munita J.M.† (2023). Antibiotic consumption during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic and emergence of carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae lineages among patients in a Chilean hospital: A time-series study and phylogenomic analysis. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 77, S1, S20-S28.
Parra E., Bello-Piruccini S., Rodríguez K., Duarte C. Torres M., Undurraga E.A. (2023). Demographic and clinical risk factors associated with severity of lab-confirmed human leptospirosis in Colombia, 2015-2020. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17, 7, e0011454.
Jara A.†, Undurraga E.A.†, Flores J.C., Zubizarreta J.R., González C., et al. (2023) Effectiveness of an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in children and adolescents: A large-scale observational study. The Lancet Regional Health Americas, 21, 100487.
Álvarez D.M., Barrón R., Conejeros J., Rivera D., Undurraga E.A., Moreno-Switt A.I. (2023). A review of the global emergence of multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Serovar Infantis. International Journal of Food Microbiology, 403, 110297.
Touchton M., Knaul F., Arreola-Ornelas H., Porteny T., Mendez O., et al. (2023) Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions to Combat COVID-19 in the Americas: Subnational, Daily Data. Scientific Data, in press.
Araos R., Smith R., Styczynski A.R., Sanchez F.A., Acevedo J., et al. (2023). High burden of intestinal colonization with antimicrobial resistant bacteria in Chile: An Antibiotic Resistance in Communities and Hospitals (ARCH) study. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 77, S1, S75-S81.
Kuzmanic D., Valenzuela J.P., Claro S., Canales A., Cerda D., Undurraga E.A. (2023) Socioeconomic disparities in the reopening of schools during the pandemic in Chile. International Journal of Educational Development, 100, 102805.
Bonaparte S., Moodie J., Undurraga E.A., Wallace R.M. (2023). Evaluation of country infrastructure as an indirect measure of dog-mediated human rabies deaths. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 10, 1147543.
Taylor E., Prada, J.M., Del Rio V., Undurraga E.A., Wallace R., Horton D. (2023). Cost-effectiveness analysis of integrated bite case management and sustained dog vaccination for rabies control. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 109, 1, 205-213.
Pérez-Cruz P., Undurraga E.A., Corsi O., Jiang X., Arreola H., Knaul F. (2023). Bridging Gaps to Universal Palliative Care Access in Chile: Serious health-related suffering and the cost of expanding the package of care services. The Lancet Regional Health Americas, 19, 100425.
Allel K., Stone J., Undurraga E.A., Day L., Lin L., Furuya L., Yakob L. (2023) The impact of inpatient bloodstream infections caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis PloS Medicine, 20, 6, e1004199.
2022
Li Y., Undurraga E.A., Zubizarreta J.R. (2022) Effectiveness of localized lockdowns in the Covid-19 Pandemic American Journal of Epidemiology, 191, 5, 812-824.
Jara A.†, Undurraga E.A.†, Zubizarreta J.R., González C., Acevedo J. et al. (2022). Effectiveness of CoronaVac in children 3 to 5 years during the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron outbreak in Chile. Nature Medicine, 28, 1377-1380.
Crossley N.A., Alliende L.M., Czepielewski L., Aceituno D., Castañeda C.P. et al. (2022) The enduring gap in educational attainment in schizophrenia according to the last 50 years of published research: a meta-analysis. The Lancet Psychiatry, 9, 7, 565-573.
Borquez I., Vasquez J., Dupre S., Undurraga E.A., Crossley N., Undurraga J. (2022). Childhood adversity increases risk of psychotic experiences in patients with substance use disorder Psychiatry Research, 316, 114733.
Jara A.†, Undurraga E.A.†, Zubizarreta J.R., González C., Paredes F., et al. (2022). Effectiveness of homologous and heterologous booster shots for an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine: A large-scale prospective cohort study. The Lancet Global Health, 10, 6, 798-806.
Palharini R.S.A., Vila D.A., Rodriguez D., Cassineli R.C., Mattos E., Undurraga E.A. (2022). Analysis of extreme rainfall and natural disaster events using satellite precipitation products in different regions of Brazil. Atmosphere, 13, 10, 1680.
Allel K., Goscé L., Araos R., Toro D., Munita J.M., Undurraga E.A.†, Panovska-Griffiths J.† (2022). Transmission of gram-negative antibiotic-resistant bacteria following high and low exposure to antibiotic resistance reservoirs in a rural community: a modelling study. Scientific Reports, 12, 13488.
Knaul F., Touchton M., Arreola H., Otero S., Hummel C., et al. (2022). Strengthening Health Systems to Face Pandemics: Subnational Policy Response to Covid-19 in Latin America. Health Affairs, 41,3:454-462.
Errázuriz A., Schmidt K., Undurraga E.A., Medeiros S., Baudrand R. et al. (2022) Effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on psychological distress in health workers: A three-arm parallel randomized controlled trial. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 145, 284-293.
2021
Jara A.†, Undurraga E.A.†, González C., Paredes F., Fontecilla T., Jara G., et al. (2021) Effectiveness of an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. New England Journal of Medicine, 385, 10, 875-884.
Micah A.E., Cogswell I.E., Cunningham B., Ezoe S., Harle A.C., et al. (2021) Tracking development assistance for health and for Covid-19: a review of development assistance, government, out-of-pocket, and other private spending on health for 204 countries and territories, 1990–2050. The Lancet, 398, 10308, 1317-1343.
Eyheramendy S., Saa P.A., Undurraga E.A., Valencia C., Barceló P. et al. (2021) Screening of Covid-19 cases through a Bayesian network symptoms model and psychophysical olfactory test. iScience, 24, 103419.
Gil D., Dominguez P., Undurraga E.A., Valenzuela E. (2021). Employment loss in informal settlements during the Covid-19 pandemic: evidence from Chile. Journal of Urban Health, 98, 622-634.
Asahi K., Undurraga E.A.†, Wagner R. (2021) Benchmarking the Covid-19 pandemic across countries and states in the U.S.A. under heterogeneous testing. Scientific Reports, 11, 15199.
Touchton M., Knaul F.M., Arreola-Ornelas H., Porteny T., Sanchez-Talanquer M. et al. (2021). A partisan pandemic: state public health policies to combat Covid-19 in Brazil. BMJ Global Health, 6, e005223.
Jara A., Undurraga E.A., Araos R. (2021). Tool for estimating the probability of having Covid-19 with one or more negative RT-PCR results. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 8, 8, ofab382.
Bauchet J., Undurraga E.A., Zycherman A., Behrman J.R., Leonard W.R., & Godoy R.A. (2021). The effect of gender targeting of food transfers on child nutritional status: Experimental evidence from the Bolivian Amazon. Journal of Development Effectiveness, 13, 3, 276-291.
Asahi K., Undurraga E.A.†, Valdés R., Wagner R. (2021). The effect of Covid-19 on the economy: evidence from an early adopter of localized lockdowns. Journal of Global Health, 11, 05002.
Letelier A., Madero-Cabib I., Undurraga E.A, Pérez-Cruz, P.E. (2021). Lifetime socioeconomic determinants of health trajectories among older adults. Advances in Life Course Research, 49, 100415.
De Campos T., Undurraga E.A. (2021). Public health decisions in the Covid-19 pandemic require more than ‘follow the science’. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47, 296-299.
González-Roldán J.F., Undurraga E.A.†, Meltzer M.I., Atkins C.Y., Vargas-Pino F., & Hernández-Pérez J.R. (2021) Cost-effectiveness evaluation of the National Rabies Vaccination Program in Mexico 1990-2015. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15 (3), e0009130.
Tariq A., Undurraga E.A., Castillo C., Vogt K., Luo R., et al. (2021) Transmission dynamics and control of Covid-19 in Chile, March-October, 2020. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15 (1), e0009070.
Undurraga E.A.†, Chowell G., Mizumoto K. (2021) Covid-19 case fatality risk by age and gender in a high testing setting in Latin America: Chile, March–August 2020. Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 10 (11).
Lista completa de publicaciones: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OmsvZIkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao