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Marcia Caldas de Castro is a Professor of Demography and chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard University. She is the first Brazilian woman to become a faculty member at Harvard.

Education and Career
Castro graduated from Universidade do Estado de Rio de Janeiro in 1986 with a degree in Statistics. She then went to work at the the Brazilian National Social Security Institute's processing center in Rio de Janeiro. While working there, she earned her Masters in Demography from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. In 1998, she moved to the United States, where she pursued a PhD in Demography at Princeton University.

Research Contributions
The primary focus of Castro's work has been the study of tropical diseases, especially Malaria. She has done extensive fieldwork in the Amazon and Africa.

Castro has also garnered recent media attention for her criticisms of Brazil's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She claims the disease plays a large role in exacerbating existing inequalities in Brazil.