Franz Castro

MD, MPH, MSc

Dr. Castro is a Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center.

Dr. Castro’s research focuses on using quantitative methods to improve health and societal outcomes for people with disabilities, particularly at the intersection between disability and race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and other social determinants of health. He obtained his M.D. from the University of Panama and an M.P.H. in Quantitative Methods at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and completed his postdoctoral research training at the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center.

JHU Center Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center

[email protected]

Publications

Castro F, Stuart E, Deal J, Varadaraj V, Swenor BK. Disability disparities in STEM: Gaps in salaries and representation for doctorate recipients with disabilities in the U.S., 2019. Accepted at Nature Human Behaviour.

Castro F, Varadaraj V, Reed N, Swenor BK. Prevalence of influenza vaccination among U.S. adults with disabilities by groups of race/ethnicity, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2016-2021. Disability Health Journal. 2023.

Castro F, Benavides Lara A, Garcés A, Moreno-Velásquez I, Odell C, Pérez W, Ortiz-Panozo E. Under-5 mortality in Central America: 1990-2016. Pediatrics. 2021; 147(1).

Local Burden of Disease Child Growth Failure Collaborators. Mapping child growth failure across low-and middle-income countries. Nature, 2020. 577(7789): p. 231.

Local Burden of Disease Diarrhoea Collaborators. Mapping geographical inequalities in childhood diarrhoeal morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet. 2020;395(10239):1779-801.

Global Burden of Disease 2017 Congenital Heart Disease Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of congenital heart disease, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 2020. 4(3): p. 185-200.

LBD Educational Attainment Collaborators. Mapping disparities in education across low-and middle-income countries. Nature, 2020. 577(7789): p. 235.

Local Burden of Disease WaSH Collaborators. Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17. The Lancet Global Health. 2020;8(9):e1162-e85.

GBD 2019 Universal Health Coverage Collaborators. Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet. 2020;396(10258):1250-84.

Local Burden of Disease Vaccine Coverage Collaborators. Mapping routine measles vaccination in low-and middle-income countries. Nature. 2020;589(7842):415-9.

2020 Presidential Scholar. Harvard University

2018 Winner of the New Voices in Global Health competition. World Health Summit. Berlin, Germany

2017 Second Place at the World Health Organization Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research International Essay Competition.

2016 Young Ambassador for Human Rights of the Republic of France. LabCitoyen Forum. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Paris, France.

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