Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Dr. Caroline Buckee joined Harvard School of Public Health in the summer of 2010 as an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, and was promoted to Professor in 2021. From 2013-2023, Dr. Buckee was the Associate Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. She co-founded and co-directs Crisis Ready (crisisready.io), a joint platform between Harvard's Data Science Initiative (HDSI) and Direct Relief, to support data-driven responses to public health emergencies and disasters. Dr. Buckee co-leads the South Asia Climate and Health Research Cluster supported by Harvard's Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability.

Dr. Buckee's research interests span infectious disease epidemiology and ecology - with a focus on vector borne diseases including malaria and dengue - human mobility and the impact of labor migration on the spread of epidemics, and the intersection of climate risks and human health and well-being. Dr. Buckee's group actively supports National Malaria Control Programs in the global south to improve surveillance and analytical approaches to targeting interventions. Her group has several projects focusing on the impact of gold-mining on malaria transmission and control in the Amazon region in South America. In India, Dr. Buckee's group is working with communities to understand the impact of extreme heat on poor working women, and to develop community-led intervention research.

• Disaster response
• Migration
• Climate Change