Lowe, Rachel

Rachel obtained a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Exeter in 2010. Her thesis focused on spatiotemporal modelling of dengue epidemics in Brazil. She held postdoctoral positions at the UNESCO-IAEA International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy and the Catalan Institute for Climate Sciences in Spain, working at the interface of climate prediction science and public health decision-making. In 2017 she was awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship, which allowed her to create the Planetary Health & Infectious Diseases Lab at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Rachel now leads the Earth Sciences - Global Health Resilience group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Between 2021-2024, she served as Director of the Lancet Countdown in Europe, a transdisciplinary collaboration tracking progress on health and climate change. Rachel is a member of the World Meteorological Organization's World Weather Research Programme (WWRP).