Ricardo Castillo-Neyra

Biographic Data

ID7005704
NAMERicardo Castillo-Neyra
GIVEN NAMESRicardo
FAMILY NAMECastillo-Neyra
SIGNATURECASTILLO-NEYRA R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pennsylvania
ORCID0000-0001-6629-2139
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Enhancing mass vaccination programs with queueing theory and spatial optimization

    Open AccessSherrie Xie, Maria Rieders et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background: , which discourages individuals from waiting to be vaccinated and may thus jeopardize the achievement of public health targets. Queueing theory offers a framework for modeling queue formation at vaccination sites and its effect on vaccine uptake. Methods: We developed an algorithm that integrates queueing theory within a spatial optimization framework to optimize the placement of mass vaccination sites. The algorithm was built and tes…

  • Incentivizing optimal risk map use for Triatoma infestans surveillance in urban environments

    Open AccessClaudia Arevalo-Nieto, Justin Sheen et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    In Arequipa, Peru, a large-scale vector control campaign has successfully reduced urban infestations of the Chagas disease vector, Triatoma infestans . In addition to preventing new infections with Trypanosoma cruzi (etiological agent of Chagas disease), the campaign produced a wealth of information about the distribution and density of vector infestations. We used these data to create vector infestation risk maps for the city in order to target …

  • Do Incentives Crowd Out Motivation? A Feasibility Study of a Community Vector-Control Campaign in Peru

    Alison M Buttenheim, Ricardo Castillo-Neyra et al.ARTICLEBehavioral Medicine2021

    Incentives are a useful tool in encouraging healthy behavior as part of public health initiatives. However, there remains concern about motivation crowd out-a decline in levels of motivation to undertake a behavior to below baseline levels after incentives have been removed-and few public health studies have assessed for motivation crowd out. Here, we assess the feasibility of identifying motivation crowd out following a lottery to promote partic…

  • A behavioral design approach to improving a Chagas disease vector control campaign in Peru

    Open AccessAlison M Buttenheim, Michael Z Levy et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Careful attention to how behavioral design may affect internal and external validity of evaluations and the scalability of interventions is needed going forward. We recommend behavioral design as a useful complement to other intervention design and evaluation approaches in global health programs

  • To spray or not to spray? Understanding participation in an indoor residual spray campaign in Arequipa, Peru

    Open AccessValerie A Paz-Soldán, Karin Bauer et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2016

    Current low participation rates in vector control programmes in Arequipa, Peru complicate the control of Chagas disease. Using focus groups (n = 17 participants) and semi-structured interviews (n = 71) conducted in March and May 2013, respectively, we examined barriers to and motivators of household participation in an indoor residual spray (IRS) campaign that had taken place one year prior in Arequipa. The most common reported barriers to partic…

  • Efecto del sacrificio de perros vagabundos en el control de la rabia canina

    Open AccessRicardo Castillo-Neyra, Michael Z Levy et al.ARTICLERevista Peruana de Medicina…2016

    21 articles were eligible for full reading. 20 of 21 articles conclude that free-roaming dog culling is ineffective in reducing the transmission of RV and may even have unintended consequences that worsen the problem. We believe that the available evidence indicates that the sacrifice of free-roaming dogs is not effective to control urban rabies. In addition, the various negative consequences of free-roaming dog culling reported in other parts of…