Nicholas Joseph Arisco

Biography

My research focuses on the intersection between environmental changes and human health, particularly through the lens of vector-borne diseases. The vast majority of my work is centered in the Brazilian Amazon, a particularly fragile and vulnerable ecosystem. I am interested in how minute ecological change interacts with human resource demands, and how these exist within the context of global environmental changes like climate change. I aim to achieve a high degree of policy-relevance throughout all of my analyses.

Education and Training

• BS, Biological Sciences
  University of Connecticut
• PhD, Population Health Sciences
  Harvard University
• MS, Environmental Epidemiology
  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Publications

• Ecological change increases malaria risk in the Brazilian Amazon.

  Arisco NJ, Peterka C, Diniz C, Singer BH, Castro MC. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024 Oct 29

• Spatiotemporal analysis of within-country imported malaria in Brazilian municipalities, 2004-2022.

  Arisco NJ, Peterka C, Castro MC. PLOS Glob Public Health 2025

• The effects of cool roofs on health, environmental, and economic outcomes in rural Africa: study protocol for a community-based cluster randomized controlled trial.

  Bunker A, Compoaré G, Sewe MO, Laurent JGC, Zabré P, Boudo V, Ouédraogo WA, Ouermi L, Jackson ST, Arisco N, Vijayakumar G, Yildirim FB, Barteit S, Maggioni MA, Woodward A, Buonocore JJ, Regassa MD, Brück T, Sié A, Bärnighausen T. Trials 2024 Jan 16

• The effect of extreme temperature and precipitation on cause-specific deaths in rural Burkina Faso: a longitudinal study.

  Arisco NJ, Sewe MO, Bärnighausen T, Sié A, Zabre P, Bunker A. Lancet Planet Health 2023 06

• Imported malaria definition and minimum data for surveillance.

  Arisco NJ, Peterka C, Castro MC. Sci Rep 2022 10 26