Medicine and Human Geography
MD, PhD
ORCID: 0000-0003-4969-8959
Peer-reviewed
Balabanski, Anna H. Angela Dos Santos, John A. Woods, mutliple authors, Zavaleta-Cortijo Carol,… Timothy J. Kleinig, Astrid M. Suchy-Dicey, et al. Incidence of Stroke in Indigenous Populations of Countries with a Very High Human Development Index. (2024) Neurology 102, no. 5 : e209138.
Miranda, J.J. & Zavaleta-Cortijo, C. (2023). The food crisis in the context of climate change and sustainable development goals. Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 40, 392-394.
C. Zavaleta-Cortijo, J. D. Ford, E. K. Galappaththi, D. B. Namanya, N. Nkwinti, B. George, et al. Indigenous knowledge, community resilience, and health emergency preparedness. (2023). The Lancet Planetary Health. Vol. 7 Issue 8 Pages e641-e643. DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(23)00140-7
V. Chicmana-Zapata, I. Arotoma-Rojas,… C. Zavaleta-Cortijo (2023). Justice implications of health and food security policies for Indigenous peoples facing COVID-19: a qualitative study and policy analysis in Peru. Health Policy and Planning 38(Supplement_2): ii36-ii50.
Valdivia-Gago, A., Zavaleta-Cortijo C., et al. (2023). The seasonality of nutrition status in Shawi Indigenous children in the Peruvian Amazon. PLOS Climate 2(9): e0000284.
Galappaththi EK, Perera CD, Dharmasiri IP, Ford JD, Kodithuwakku SS, Chicmana-Zapata V, Zavaleta-Cortijo C, et al. (2023). Policy responses to COVID-19 in Sri Lanka and the consideration of Indigenous Peoples. Environ Sci Policy. Jun;144:110-123.DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2023.03.008
Kerrie Pickering; Eranga K Galappaththi; Professor James D. Ford; Chandni Singh; Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo; Keith Hyams; J. Jaime Miranda; et al. (2023). Indigenous peoples and the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic scoping review. Environmental Research Letters. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/acb804
Arotoma-Rojas, I., Berrang-Ford, L., Zavaleta-Cortijo, C., et al. (2022). Indigenous Peoples’ Perceptions of Their Food System in the Context of Climate Change: A Case Study of Shawi Men in the Peruvian Amazon." Sustainability 14(24): 16502.
Bressan, T., Valdivia-Gago, A., Silvera-Callo R.,…, Zavaleta-Cortijo C. (2022). Challenges of design, implementation, acceptability, and potential for, biomedical technologies in the Peruvian Amazon. International Journal for Equity in Health. DOI: 10.1186/s12939-022-01773-7
Ford, J.; Zavaleta-Cortijo, C.; Ainembabazi, T.; Anza-Ramírez, C.; Arotoma-Rojas, I.; Bezerra, J.; et al. (2022)
“Interactions between climate and COVID-19"
☞ The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(10), e825-e833
Bharati, J.; Zavaleta-Cortijo, C., Bressan, T.; Shingada, A.; Obrador, G.; Sola, L.; Peiris, D.; Miranda, J.; & Jha, V. (2022)
“The environment and kidney health: challenges and opportunities”
☞ Salud Pública de México [Internet]. 13 de junio de 2022; 64: S46-S55
Carrillo-Larco, R.; Guzmán-Vilca, W.; Zavaleta-Cortijo, C.; Miranda, J.; et al. (2022)
“Peru - Progress in health and sciences in 200 years of independence”
☞ The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. Vol. 7, 2022, 100148, ISSN 2667-193X
Scarpa, G.; Berrang-Ford, L.; Twesigomwe, S.; Kakwangire, P.; Peters, R.; Zavaleta-Cortijo, C.; Patterson, K.; Namanya, D.; Lwasa, S.; Nowembabazi, E.; Kesande, C.; Harris-Fry, H.; & Cade, J. (2021)
“A Community-Based Approach to Integrating Socio, Cultural and Environmental Contexts in the Development of a Food Database for Indigenous and Rural Populations: The Case of the Batwa and Bakiga in South-Western Uganda"
☞ Nutrients. 2021 Oct 3; 13(10): 3503. doi: 10.3390/nu13103503. PMID: 34684504; PMCID: PMC8537349
Mallard, A.; Pesantes, M.; Zavaleta-Cortijo, C.; & Ward, J. (2021)
“An urgent call to collect data related to COVID-19 and Indigenous populations globally"
Busalleu, A.; Di-Liberto, A.; Cárcamo, C.; Carrasco-Escobar, G.; Zavaleta, C.; Berrang-Ford, L.; Llanos-Cuentas, A.; King, M.; Maurtua, D. & Indigenous Health and Adaption to Climate Change Research Group (IHACC) (2020)
"Cultural Values and the Coliform Bacterial Load of “Masato,” an Amazon Indigenous Beverage"
Zavaleta-Cortijo, C.; Ford, J. D.; Arotoma-Rojas, I.; Lwasa, S.; Lancha-Rucoba, G.; García, P. J.; Berrang-Ford, L.; et al. (2020)
"Climate change and COVID-19: reinforcing indigenous food systems"
☞ The Lancet Planetary Health, 4(9), e381-e382
Zavaleta, C. (2020).
"COVID-19: review indigenous peoples' data"
Zavaleta, C.; Berrang-Ford, L.; Ford, J.; Llanos-Cuentas, A.; Cárcamo, C.; Ross, N. A.; Lancha, G.; Sherman, M.; Harper, S. L.; & The Indigenous Health and Adaptation to Climate Change Research Team (2018)
"Multiple non-climatic drivers of food insecurity reinforce climate change maladaptation trajectories among Peruvian Indigenous Shawi in the Amazon"
☞ PloS ONE, 13(10), e0205714, e1-30
Sauer, J.; Berrang-Ford, L.; Patterson, K.; Donnelly, B.; Lwasa, S.; Namanya, D.; Zavaleta, C.; Ford, J.; & Harper, S. L. (2018)
"An analysis of the nutrition status of neighboring Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in Kanungu District, southwestern Uganda: Close proximity, distant health realities"
☞ Social Science & Medicine, 217, 55-64
Zavaleta, C.; Berrang-Ford, L.; Llanos-Cuentas, A.; Cárcamo, C.; Ford, J.; Silvera, R.; Patterson K.; Marquis, G. S.; Harper, S. L.; & The Indigenous Health and Adaptation to Climate Change Research Team (2017)
"Indigenous Shawi communities and national food security support: Right direction, but not enough"
Zavaleta, C.; Konda, K.; Valderrama, Y.; & Gotuzzo, E. (2016)
"Health research: working with Indigenous People in Peru"
☞ Journal of Community Genetics, 7(2), 173-74
Romero, C.; Zavaleta, C.; Cabrera, L.; Gilman, R. H. y Miranda, J. J. (2014)
"High blood pressure and obesity in the Asháninka Indigenous population in the Junin region, Peru"
☞ Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica, 31(1), 78-83
Cabezas-Sánchez, C.; Trujillo-Villarroel, O.; Zavaleta, C.; Culqui-Lévano, D.; Suarez-Jara, M.; Cueva-Maza, N.; & Monzón, S. (2014)
"Prevalence of hepatitis B infection in children under 5 years old on Indigenous communities of the Peruvian Amazonia after an immunization intervention"
☞ Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica, 31(2), 204-210
Hofmeijer, I.; Ford, J.; Berrang-Ford, L.; Zavaleta, C.; Cárcamo, C.; Llanos, A.; Carhuaz, C.; Edge, V.; Lwasa, D.; & Namanya, D. (2013)
"Community vulnerability to the health effects of climate change among indigenous populations in the Peruvian Amazon: a case study from Panaillo and Nuevo Progreso"
☞ Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 18(7), 957-978
Sherman, M.; Berrang-Ford, L.; Ford, J.; Lardeau, M. P.; Hofmeijer, I.; & Zavaleta, C. (2012)
"Balancing indigenous principles and institutional research guidelines for informed consent: a case study from the Peruvian Amazon"
☞ AJOB Primary Research, 3(4), 53-68
Culqui, D.; Zavaleta, C.; Romero, J.; Bonilla, C.; Trujillo, O. y Cueva, N. (2009)
"Tuberculosis in Indigenous populations of Peru: Los Aimaras del Peru, 2000-2005"
☞ Revista Peruana de Epidemiología, 13(1), 1-7
Bartlett, E. C.; Zavaleta, C.; Fernández, C.; Razuri, H.; Vilcarromero, S.; Vermund, S. H.; & Gotuzzo, E. (2008)
"Expansion of HIV and Syphilis into the Peruvian Amazon: A survey of four communities of an indigenous Amazonian ethnic group"
☞ International Journal of Infectious Diseases.12(6):e89-94
Culqui, D.; Reátegui, S.; Trujillo, O.; Zavaleta, C.; Cueva, N. y Suárez-Ognio, L. (2008)
"El Chacho (Alcanzo, Hapiruzqa), Andean cultural syndrome: characteristics and traditional treatment in Ayacucho, Peru"
☞ Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 25(1):59-65
Zavaleta, C.; Mujica, J.; Ypanaqué, P. y Cueva, N. (2007)
"Sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS in the Native communities of the Peruvian Amazon: Cultural considerations"
☞ Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 24(3): 315-16
Zavaleta, C.; Fernández, C.; Konda, K.; Valderrama, Y.; Vermund, S.H.; & Gotuzzo, E. (2007)
"High prevalence of HIV and syphilis in a remote native community of the Peruvian Amazon"
☞ American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygene, 76(4): 703-5
Previus publications
Books
The Shawi Food Book- Shawi Kusharunenpita Ni’ninsu (2021)
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Comunidad Nativa Nuevo Progreso, Dirección Desconcentrada de Cultura San Martín [Editor]
☞ To read the book, click here.
Reports
The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems (2021, FAO)
[Contributors on COVID-19 and resilience] / doi:10.4060/cb4932
☞ To read the report, click here.