Chris Mercado

Chris Mercado

Advisor

Chris is a public health professional from the Philippines. He works as a Technical Officer for the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) Secretariat in Singapore. Chris was a postgraduate researcher in Epidemiology at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Thailand, where he supported the collection, collation, and analysis of datasets on malaria surveillance in multiple countries in the Asia Pacific region, for the development of disease risk maps and mathematical models to support malaria elimination efforts.

As a member of the Philippines team, Chris is seeking to test and compare the CoMo Consortium model against other local modelling efforts in the Philippines and engage local decision makers in its use. Chris also aims to support evidence synthesis to inform the potential development of a local model and policy brief.

Interests

  • Infectious disease epidemiology
  • Spatial analysis for public health
  • Public health surveillance

Education

  • Master of Science in Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2019

    Mahidol University

  • Master of Public Health (Epidemiology Track), 2011

    University of the Philippines

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing, 2008

    University of Santo Tomas

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