Lucas Earl

Lucas Earl is the GIS Specialist at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). In this role, he is responsible for providing support to IHME’s geospatial analysis work and related research areas by producing high-quality and visually engaging maps of different health and health-related indicators.

This 2005 photograph depicts a female Aedes aegypti mosquito, the primary vector for the spread of Dengue fever. The photo is a close-up of a mosquito taking a blood meal, making its belly bright red and striking against a bokeh green background
Urbanization

What’s to Blame for Dengue’s Rise? It’s not Only Climate Change

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Lucas Earl

Fueled by urbanization disease will threaten 6 billion people by 2080, with economically-disadvantaged areas hardest hit

Health care workers protesting shortage of medical supplies outside a hospital in Caracas, Venezuela on November 19, 2019. The picture shows an older woman in the foreground wearing blue hospital scrubs shouting and looking slightly off camera. She is surrounded by other protestors, many of whom are waving protest signs and also shouting. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Governance

The Human Toll of Political Strife: Malaria’s Rise in Venezuela

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Lucas Earl

Crisis-fueled resurgence of disease in Venezuela threatens progress made by several South American countries