Rachel Lowe

Visiting Professor

Rachel Lowe

Affiliation

  • NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
  • Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
  • Catalan Institution for Research & Advanced Studies (ICREA)
  • London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Research Areas

  • Climate change
  • Planetary health
  • Infectious disease epidemiology
  • Bayesian statistical modelling
  • Impact-based forecasting
  • Global health resilience

Academic/Professional Qualifications

  • PhD Mathematics (Statistical Modelling), University of Exeter (2010)
  • MSc Geophysical Hazards, University College London (2007)
  • BSc(Hons) Meteorology & Oceanography with a year in Europe (Granada, Spain), University of East Anglia (2004)

Awards/Honours

  • City of Barcelona Award in Environmental and Earth Sciences
  • Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Climate Solutions Residency
  • ICREA Research Professorship
  • International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases (ISNTD) Water Award for Research
  • Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship

Career History

  • ICREA Research Professor and Global Health Resilience Group Leader, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (2022 – present)
  • Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (2017 – 2025)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher and Head of Climate Services for Health, Catalan Institution for Climate Sciences (2012-2016)
  • Postdoctoral Scientist, UNESCO/IAEA Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (2010-2012)

Selected Publications

  • Charnley GEC, Alcayna T, Almuedo-Riera A, Antoniou C, Badolo A, Bartumeus F, Boodram LL, Bueno-Marí R, Codeço C, Coelho FC, Costa F, Cox H, Haddad N, Ab Hamid N, Kittayapong P, Korukluoğlu G, Michaelakis A, Maciel-de-Freitas R, Montalvo T, Muñoz J, Sauelda Oliveras S, Palmer JRB, Barboza Pizard CJ, Ribeiro GS, Lowe R. (2025). Strengthening resilience to emerging vector-borne diseases in Europe: lessons learnt from countries facing endemic transmission. The Lancet Regional Health–Europe (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2025.101271).
  • Moirano G, Fletcher C, Semenza JC, Lowe R. (2025). Short-term effect of temperature and precipitation on the incidence of West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease in Europe: a multi-country case-crossover analysis. The Lancet Regional Health–Europe (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.101149).
  • Lowe R & Codeço CT. (2025). Harmonizing Multisource Data to Inform Vector-Borne Disease Risk Management Strategies. Annual Review of Entomology (https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-040124-015101).
  • Díaz AR, Rollock L, Boodram LL, Mahon R, Best S, Trotman A, Van Meerbeeck CJ, Fletcher C, Dunbar W, Lippi CA, Lührsen D, Sorensen C, Muñoz AG, Ryan SJ, Stewart-Ibarra AM, Lowe R. (2024). A demand-driven climate services for health implementation framework: A case study for climate-sensitive diseases in Caribbean Small Island Developing States. PLoS Climate (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000282).
  • Carvalho BM, Maia C, Courtenay O, Llabrés-Brustenga A, Lotto Batista M, Moirano G, van Daalen KR, Semenza JC, Lowe R. (2024). A climatic suitability indicator to support Leishmania infantum surveillance in Europe: a modelling study. The Lancet Regional Health–Europe (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.100971).
  • Van Daalen KR, …, Lowe R. (2024). The 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action. The Lancet Public Health (https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00055-0).
  • Gibb R, Colón-González FJ, Lan PT, Huong PT, Nam VS, Duoc VT, Hung DT, Dong NT, Chien VC, Trang LTT, Quoc DK, Hoa TM, Tai NH, Hang TT, Tsarouchi G, Ainscoe E, Harpham Q, Hofmann B, Lumbroso D, Brady OJ, Lowe R. (2023). Interactions between climate change, urban infrastructure and mobility are driving dengue emergence in Vietnam. Nature Communications (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43954-0).
  • Lotto Batista M, Rees EM, Gomez A, Lopez A, Castell S, Kucharski AJ, Ghozzi S, Müller GV, Lowe R. (2023). Towards a leptospirosis early warning system in North-Eastern Argentina. J. R. Soc. Interface (https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0069).
  • Fletcher IK, Grillet ME, Moreno J, Drakeley C, Hernandez-Villena J, Jones K, Lowe R. (2022). Synergies between environmental degradation and climate variation on malaria reemergence in southern Venezuela. The Lancet Planetary Health (https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00192-9).
  • Sera F, O’Reilly KM, Armstrong B, Tobias A, Hashizume M, Schneider dos Santos R, von Borries R, Pascal M, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Gasparrini A, Lowe R. (2021). A cross-sectional analysis of meteorological factors and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in 409 cities across 26 countries. Nature Communications (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25914-8).
  • Colón-González FJ, Sewe MO, Tompkins AM, Sjödin H, Casallas A, Rocklöv J, Caminade C, Lowe R. (2021). Projecting the risk of mosquito-borne diseases in a warmer and more urbanised world: a multi-model multi-scenario intercomparison modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health (https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00132-7).
  • Lowe R, Lee S, O’Reilly KM, Brady OJ, Bastos L, Carrasco-Escobar G, De Castro Catão R, Colón-González FJ, Barcellos C, Sá Carvalho M, Blangiardo M, Rue H, Gasparrini A. (2021). Combined effects of hydrometeorological hazards and urbanisation on dengue risk in Brazil: a spatiotemporal modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health (https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(20)30292-8).
  • Colón-González FJ, Bastos L, Hofmann B, Hopkin A, Harpham Q, Crocker T, Amato R, Ferrario I, Moschini F, James S, Malde S, Ainscoe E, Nam VS, Tan DQ, Khoa ND, Harrison M, Tsarouchi G, Lumbroso D, Brady OJ, Lowe R. (2021). Probabilistic seasonal dengue forecasting in Vietnam: A modelling study using superensembles. PLoS Medicine (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003542).
  • Lowe R, Gasparrini A, Van Meerbeeck CJ, Lippi CA, Mahon R, Trotman AR, Rollock L, Hinds AQJ, Ryan SJ, Stewart Ibarra AM (2018). Nonlinear and delayed impacts of climate on dengue risk in Barbados: A modelling study. PLOS Medicine (doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002613).
  • Lowe R, Stewart-Ibarra AM, Petrova D, García-Díez M, Borbor-Cordova MJ, Mejía R, Regato M, Rodó X. (2017). Climate services for health: predicting the evolution of the 2016 dengue season in Machala, Ecuador. The Lancet Planetary Health (doi:10.1016/S2542-5196(17)30064-5).

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