Prof. Rachel Lowe

Rachel Lowe is an ICREA Research Professor and Global Health Resilience (GHR) Group Leader at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The GHR group co-develops policy-relevant methodological solutions, to enhance surveillance, preparedness and response to global health challenges, with a focus on climate-sensitive infectious diseases. Rachel coordinates two Wellcome Trust digital technology, climate, and health projects, HARMONIZE and IDExtremes, which aim to provide robust data and modelling tools to build local resilience against emerging infectious disease threats. Rachel is the co-coordinator of the Horizon Europe project IDAlert, which aims to tackle the emergence and transmission of zoonotic pathogens in Europe and beyond by developing novel indicators and innovative early warning systems. Rachel is a member of the World Meteorological Organization World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) and the Lancet Commission for Strengthening the Use of Epidemiological Modelling of Emerging and Pandemic Infectious Diseases.