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Dr Julia Pescarini

Associate Professor

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Stret
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

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I am an epidemiologist at the University of São Paulo (Brazil). I have experience in infectious disease epidemiology, social epidemiology, causal inference, and impact evaluation of poverty alleviation strategies on health. Through my experience and collaborations with Brazilian and other Latin American countries, my research has been focused on the use of administrative data and data linkage to investigate social and environmental determinants of health and the impact of social protection policies on health. I am currently a Wellcome Trust fellow leading the EMERGE group (Equity in Migration and Environmental Adaptation Study) and an honorary researcher at The Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS) within the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz, Brazil).

Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

I am currently teaching in "Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health (STEPH)", "Evaluation of Public Health Interventions" and "Analysis of Eletronic Health Records". I am the Co-Module Organizer for STEPH. I also supervise MSc and PhD students.

Research

I am interested in understanding how poverty, vulnerability and deprived living conditions, included in the broad context of the social determinants of health, affect the chances of people becoming ill and how we can mitigate that. I have experience working with social determination of health with a special focus on migration, health inequalities and impact evaluation of social policies on inequalities.

Research Area
Global Health
Health inequalities
Health policy
Impact evaluation
Migration
Social and structural determinants of health
Disease and Health Conditions
Leprosy
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Tropical diseases
Tuberculosis
Emerging infectious diseases
Infectious diseases
Vector borne diseases
Cardiovascular diseases
Country
Brazil
Ecuador
Region
Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)
World

Selected Publications
Evaluating the impact of the Bolsa Familia conditional cash transfer program on premature cardiovascular and all-cause mortality using the 100 million Brazilian cohort: a natural experiment study protocol.
PESCARINI, JM; Craig, P; Allik, M; Amorim, L; ALI, S; SMEETH, L; Barreto, ML; Leyland, AH; Aquino, EM L; Katikireddi, SV;
2020
BMJ OPEN
CIDACS-RL: a novel indexing search and scoring-based record linkage system for huge datasets with high accuracy and scalability.
Barbosa, GC G; ALI, MS; Araujo, B; Reis, S; Sena, S; Ichihara, MY T; PESCARINI, J; Fiaccone, RL; Amorim, LD; Pita, R; Barreto, ME; SMEETH, L; Barreto, ML;
2020
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Conditional Cash Transfer Program and Leprosy Incidence: Analysis of 12.9 Million Families From the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort.
PESCARINI, JM; WILLIAMSON, E; Ichihara, MY; Fiaccone, RL; Forastiere, L; Ramond, A; Nery, JS; Penna, ML F; Strina, A; Reis, S; SMEETH, L; RODRIGUES, LC; BRICKLEY, EB; Penna, GO; Barreto, ML;
2020
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
Social distancing measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic: potential impacts and challenges in Brazil.
Aquino, EM L; Silveira, IH; PESCARINI, JM; Aquino, R; Souza-Filho, JA D; Rocha, AD S; Ferreira, A; VICTOR, A; Teixeira, C; Machado, DB; PAIXÃO, E; Alves, FJ O; Pilecco, F; Menezes, G; Gabrielli, L; Leite, L; Almeida, MD C C D; Ortelan, N; Fernandes, QH R F; Ortiz, RJ F; Palmeira, RN; Junior, EP P; Aragão, E; Souza, LE P F D; Netto, MB; ... Lima, RT D R S.
2020
Ciencia & saude coletiva
Incidence of and Factors Associated With Leprosy Among Household Contacts of Patients With Leprosy in Brazil.
Teixeira, CS S; PESCARINI, JM; Alves, FJ O; Nery, JS; Sanchez, MN; Teles, C; Ichihara, MY T; Ramond, A; SMEETH, L; Fernandes Penna, ML; RODRIGUES, LC; BRICKLEY, EB; Penna, GO; Barreto, ML; Silva, RD C R;
2020
JAMA DERMATOLOGY
Effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on leprosy treatment adherence and cure in patients from the nationwide 100 Million Brazilian Cohort: a quasi-experimental study.
PESCARINI, JM; WILLIAMSON, E; Nery, JS; Ramond, A; Ichihara, MY; Fiaccone, RL; Penna, ML F; SMEETH, L; RODRIGUES, LC; Penna, GO; BRICKLEY, EB; Barreto, ML;
2020
LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Socioeconomic determinants of leprosy new case detection in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort: a population-based linkage study.
Nery, JS; Ramond, A; PESCARINI, JM; Alves, A; Strina, A; Ichihara, MY; Fernandes Penna, ML; SMEETH, L; RODRIGUES, LC; Barreto, ML; BRICKLEY, EB; Penna, GO;
2019
The Lancet Global Health
Patterns of the triple burden of childhood malnutrition in Ecuador by age, sex, ethnicity, and poverty: a cross-sectional population survey
Chis Ster, I; Alvarez-Mena, P; Zurita-Loma, D; Gualan, M; Rojeab-Bravo, B; Cooper, PJ; Romero-Sandoval, N; Alcivar Marcillo, AA; Almeida, C; Alvarez, P; Andrade Ortiz, DO; Anjos, EF; Araújo da Cruz Casais e Silva, LG; Araujo da Cruz Casais e Silva, J; Ayala Davila, RA; Barreto, M; Ivata Bernal, RT; Borbor Cordova, MJ; Browne, E; Buñay, C; Burke, C; Calderon Huachi, NM; Santos de Magalhães Cardoso, L; Cardoso dos Santos, CJ; Carreiro, R; ... Zurita, D.
2026
The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
Hydrological disasters and health losses: an index-based analysis for Brazil.
Pereira, GP; Sousa Filho, JF D; Ferreira, TR; Costa, PV M D; Ferreira, AJ F; PESCARINI, JM; Guimarães, JM N; Velasco, SR M; Neves, DJ D; Reis, JS D; Silva, KC M D; Santos, GF D; Silva, RD C R; Andrade, RF S; Barreto, ML;
2026
Revista de saude publica
Impact of a non-contributory pension for older adults on hospitalisations and mortality: a protocol for a natural experimental study of the Brazilian continuous cash benefit (BPC).
Silva, SA G D; Dias, FD S; Guimarães, JM N; Casais, G; Moncayo, AL; Ruiz, RA G; Machado, DB; Alves, FJ O; Katikireddi, SV; Leyland, AH; Barreto, ML; Ribeiro, RD C; Craig, P; Pescarini, J;
2026
BMJ open
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Keppel Stret
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

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