Claudia Codeco

I am a Biologist, with a Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering and a PhD in Quantitative Biology. Since 2002, I work as an associate researcher at the Scientific Computation Program, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Fiocruz is the Brazilian equivalent of the US's CDC. My research focuses on the theoretical aspects of population ecology and evolution of host-pathogen systems and the epidemiology of infectious diseases. My background in modeling includes traditional compartmental models, individual-based models and stochastic matrix models, with applications to dengue, yellow fever and other tropical diseases.

My current research interest is the ecology and evolution of host-vector-parasite systems and the design of control strategies for infectious diseases, especially dengue and yellow fever. Host-parasite systems show a hierarchical network structure. I am interested in defining strategies to model the effect of small scale processes on large scale events. More specifically the questions that I am adressing are: how to translate resource consumption by individual parasites as virulence/disease at the host level? How individual variations (susceptibility, virulence, pattern of contact, etc) affect processes observed at larger scales (population level)? How to model phenomena that cross several scales of organization? These are the questions that I am expecting to pursue at the SFI.

Published Research

Codeço, Cláudia Torres. "Endemic and epidemic dynamics of cholera: the role of the aquatic reservoir." BMC Infectious Diseases 1 (2001) [PDF] 1.1 MB

Codeçol, C. T. and J. P. Grover. "Competition along a Spatial Gradient of Resource Supply: A Microbial Experimental Model." The American Naturalist 3 (2001): 300-315 [PDF] 5.1 MB

Luz, Paula Mendes, Cláudia Torres Codeço, Eduardo Massad,and Claudio José Struchiner. "Uncertainties Regarding Dengue Modeling in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil." Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 7 (2003): 871-878 [PDF] 587 KB

Codeço, Cláudia Torres and Paula Mendes Luz. "Is pertussis actually reemerging? Insights from an individual-based model." Cad. Saúde Pública 3 (2001): 491-500 [PDF] 100 KB