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 de la Escuela de Gobierno UC, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar (2021-2023), y Luksic Scholar del David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), Harvard University (2022-2023). Es investigador del Multidisciplinary Initiative for Collaborative Research on Bacterial Pathogens and Resistance (MICROB-R) y del Centro de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada del Riesgo de Desastres (CIGIDEN). Graduado como ingeniero civil UC y magíster en estudios sociales y políticos latinoamericanos en la U. Alberto Hurtado, Eduardo obtuvo un doctorado en políticas sociales en Brandeis University con una beca Fulbright.
Su investigación está en la intersección de las ciencias sociales y la salud de la población. Usa métodos cuantitativos para analizar los factores locales, nacionales, y globales que afectan la salud y el bienestar de la población y evaluar el impacto de programas e intervenciones en salud pública, particularmente en América Latina. Con un enfoque interdisciplinario y colaborativo, Eduardo tiene más de 100 publicaciones científicas internacionales (WoS), incluyendo revistas como The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, y Nature. Los resultados de su investigación han sido destacados en medios nacionales e internacionales, incluyendo CNN International, O Globo, Scientific American, South China Morning Post, The Economist, The New York Times, y The Washington Post. Ha colaborado en evaluaciones de salud pública con gobiernos y organizaciones internacionales, incluyendo Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative, CDC Foundation, UNICEF, y la Organización Mundial de la Salud.
Anteriormente, fue un Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness Fellow en el Health Economics and Modeling Unit, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015-2017), y Senior Research Associate en el Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, Heller School, Brandeis University (2014-2015). Fue finalista del Kaafee Billah Early Career Award de CDC (2017).
2023
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, in press.
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, in press.
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., Peters A., Conejeros J., Martinez JRW, (…), Undurraga E.A.†, Munita J.M.† (2023). Antibiotic consumption during the COVID-19 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, in press.
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, in press.
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, in press.
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, in press.
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.
*Yige Li, Winner of the Best Student Paper Award, American Statistical Association’s Health Policy Statistics Section, and Winner of the Best Student Paper Award, Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society*
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.
*Altmetric’s Top 100 most-mentioned scholarly publications of 2021. Top 100- The ‘Old School Remix’. DOI:10.6084/m9.figshare.16974022.v1*
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).