Laís Picinini Freitas

Postdoctoral Researcher

Laís Picinini Freitas is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Santé Publique and the School of Public Health, University of Montreal. She is currently coordinating the Arboviral diseases in Colombia project, studying the spatio-temporal patterns and associated factors of dengue, chikungunya and Zika in Colombia using spatial and spatio-temporal methods and statistical models under the Bayesian framework. Dr. Freitas obtained a Masters and a PhD in Epidemiology in Public Health at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Brazil, and completed one year of postdoctoral research in the Scientific Computing Program at Fiocruz. Her research focuses on the spatial and spatio-temporal distribution of infectious diseases, in particular diseases transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes (“arboviral” diseases, namely dengue, Zika and chikungunya), and their relationship with socioeconomic and environmental factors.