Selected Publications

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.

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.

Castillo-Neyra R, Larson AJ, Tamayo LD, Arevalo-Nieto C, Brown J, Condori-Pino C, Ortega E, Levy MZ, Paz-Soldan VA: Perceptions of Problems with Household Insects: Qualitative and Quantitative Findings from Peri-Urban Communities in Arequipa, Peru. Am J Trop Med Hyg 109(6): 1372-1379, November 2023.

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: A mathematical framework to optimize placement of dog rabies campaigns: lessons for future pandemics. Rabies in the Americas Conference, Bogota, Colombia October 2023.

Laura D Tamayo, Carlos E Condori-Pino, Zoee Sanchez, Raquel Gonçalves, Fernando S Málaga Chávez, Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, Michael Z Levy, Valerie A Paz-Soldan: An effective internet-based system for surveillance and elimination of triatomine insects: AlertaChirimacha. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 17(10): e0011694, October 2023.

Valerie A Paz-Soldán 1, Ariana Valcarcel 2, Katya Canal-Solis 3, Zaray Miranda-Chacon 4, Yasna K Palmeiro-Silva 5, Stella M Hartinger 6, Ana G Suárez-Linares 6, Valeria Falla-Valdez 6, Claudio Intimayta-Escalante 6, Mariana Lehoucq 6, Angelica Pretell 6, Ricardo Castillo-Neyra: A critical analysis of national plans for climate adaptation for health in South America. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas 9(26): 100604, October 2023.