Selected Publications

Elvis W. Diaz, Stephanie Sila, Brinkley Bellotti Raynor, Micaela De la Puente-León, Michael Z. Levy, Ricardo Castillo-Neyra: Highly Dynamic Population of Owned Dogs and Implications for Zoonosis Control BioRxiv Apr 2025.

Sherrie Xie, Julianna Shinnick, Elvis W. Diaz, Edith Zegarra, Ynes Monroy, Sergio E. Recuenco, Ricardo Castillo-Neyra: Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Dog-Mediated Rabies: Disparities in Incidence and Surveillance Effort in a Latin American City. MedRxiv Apr 2025.

Renzo Salazar, Kirstyn Brunker, Elvis W Díaz, Edith Zegarra, Ynes Monroy, Gorky N Baldarrago, Katty Borrini-Mayorí, Micaela De la Puente-León, Natasha Palmalux, Jenna Nichols, Sandeep Kasaragod, Michael Z Levy, Katie Hampson, Ricardo Castillo-Neyra: Genomic characterization of a dog-mediated rabies outbreak in El Pedregal, Arequipa, Peru. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 19(3), March 2025.

Bellotti BR, Díaz EW, De la Puente-León M, Rieders MT, Recuenco SE, Levy MZ, Castillo-Neyra R.: Challenging a paradigm: Staggered versus single-pulse mass dog vaccination strategy for rabies elimination PLoS Comput Biol. 21(7): e1012780, February 2025.

Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, Lizzie Ortiz-Cam, Jorge L. Cañari-Casaño, Elvis W. Diaz, Laura D. Tamayo, Guillermo Porras, Sergio E. Recuenco, Valerie A. Paz-Soldan: An Implementation Science Framework to Understand Low Coverage in Mass Dog Rabies Vaccination. MedRxiv Feb 2025.

Tania De la Cruz-Saldana, Javier A. Bustos, Maria P. Requena-Herrera, Nelson Martinez-Merizalde, Lizzie Ortiz-Cam, Ana Lucía Cáceres, Carolina Guzman, Cesar M. Gavidia, Cesar Ugarte-Gil, Ricardo Castillo-Neyra: A scoping review on control strategies for Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato. MedRxiv Jan 2025 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.21.24312335.

Xie S, Rieders M, Changolkar S, Bhattacharya BB, Diaz EW, Levy MZ, Castillo-Neyra R: Enhancing mass vaccination programs with queueing theory and spatial optimization Front Public Health(12), 1440673, December 2024

Castillo-Neyra R, Díaz EW, Ortiz-Cam L, Porras G, De La Puente-León M, Condori GF, Chuquista-Alcarraz O, Recuenco SE, Tamayo LD, Buttenheim AM, Paz-Soldan VA. : Human-Centered Design to Respond to Public Health Crises: Maintaining Canine Rabies Vaccination during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Peru Am J Trop Med Hyg. 112(2): 377-385, November 2024.

Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, Sherrie Xie, Brinkley Raynor Bellotti, Elvis W. Diaz, Aris Saxena, Amparo M. Toledo, Gian Franco Condori-Luna, Maria Rieders, Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya & Michael Z. Levy: Optimizing the location of vaccination sites to stop a zoonotic epidemic. Scientific Reports July 2024.

Raquel Gonçalves, Kathryn P Hacker, Carlos Condori, Sherrie Xie, Katty Borrini-Mayori, Lina Mollesaca Riveros, Roger Quispe Apaza, Manuel Ysidro Arratea, Gustavo Nativio, Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, Valerie A Paz-Soldan, Michael Z Levy: Irrigation, migration and infestation: a case study of Chagas disease vectors and bed bugs in El Pedregal, Peru. Mem Inst Oswald Cruz June 2024.