Alvaro Ernesto Castillo Carniglia
Full Professor
Universidad San Sebastián
Santiago, Chile
Social epidemiologist with interests in the intersection between substance use, violence, and social context, including policy and program evaluation.
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PhD in Public Health, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2013
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MSc in Public Health Nutrition, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2009
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BA in Social Anthropology, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2007
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Postdoctoral fellow Full Time
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVIS
Santiago, Chile
2016 - 2018
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Assistant Professor Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR
Vicerrectoría de Investigación
Santiago, Chile
2018 - 2018
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Associate Professor Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR
Vicerrectoría de Investigación
Santiago, Chile
2019 - 2024
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Adjunct assistant professor Other
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
New York, Estados Unidos
2019 - 2021
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Full Professor Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD SAN SEBASTIAN
Facultad de Medicina y Ciencia
Santiago, Chile
2024 - At present
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Head of Research Department Full Time
Servicio Nacional para la Prevención y Rehabilitación del Consumo de Drogas y Alcohol
Santiago, Chile
2011 - 2016
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Researcher Full Time
Servicio Nacional para la Prevención y Rehabilitación del Consumo de Drogas y Alcohol
Santiago, Chile
2010 - 2011
2020 - Camila Letelier MPH. Adviser master thesis (Public Health, Universidad Mayor).
2020 - Magdalena Ahumada MA. Member of master thesis committee (Master in Research Methods, U. Diego Portales).
2019 - Leonardo Vallejos MPH. Adviser master thesis (Public Health, Universidad Mayor).
2019 - Andrés Gonzalez. MA. Member of master thesis committee (Master in Research Methods, U. Diego Portales).
2016 - Barbara Castro. M.Sc. Member of master thesis committee (Master in Nutritional Science, Universidad de Chile).
2015 - Rodrigo Portilla Huidobro. M.P.H. Co-adviser for master thesis (Master in Public health, Universidad de Chile).
INVITED TALKS
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Acquiring and standardizing cross-national data on cannabis use in South America: lessons learned and future directions”. International Cannabis Toolkit Workshop/Lisbon Addictions. October 2019. Lisbon, Portugal
Castillo-Carniglia A. “The adaptation and validation of the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) in Chile”. Cooperation Program on Drugs Policies between Latin America and the European Union (COPOLAD). October 2017. Santiago, Chile.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “The synthetic control group method”. Ministerio de Salud Pública. May, 2017. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “The health and social consequences of the national marijuana legalization in Uruguay”. Ministerio de Salud Pública. November 2016. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Análisis metodológico de estudios en población escolar”. Population health surveys Seminar. Departamento de Epidemiología, Ministerio de Salud. June 2015. Santiago, Chile.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Estudio de caracterización de la oferta de tratamiento a nivel nacional”. Reunión de trabajo para el diseño de estudios pilotos en pacientes en tratamiento por consumo de cocaínas fumables. Organizations of American States (OAS)/US State Dapartment. April 2015. Brasilia, Brasil.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Epidemiology and public policy: the case of marijuana”. Hospital Sotero del Río. November 2014. Santiago, Chile.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Use of synthetic drugs in Chile”. Synthetic drugs Seminar. Jefatura Nacional Antinarcóticos y Contra el Crimen Organizado, PDI. August 2014. Santiago, Chile.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Magnitud y tendencia del consumo de alcohol y otras drogas en Chile”. Conferencia y conversatorio sobre Jóvenes, Consumos y Procesos Identitarios. Centros de Estudios Socioculturales (CESC). Universidad Central. June 2014. Santiago, Chile.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Diseño de un estudio longitudinal en personas en tratamiento por uso de drogas”. Organizations of American States (OAS)/US State Dapartment. April 2014. Sao Paulo, Brasil.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Trens on the use of alcohol and other drugs in Chile”. Taskforce on the promotion of evidence-based demand reduction programs and policies. Cooperation Program on Drugs Policies between Latin America and the European Union (COPOLAD). February 2014. Madrid, España.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Measuring drug and alcohol use in national drug surveys”. Fourth workshop on drug use measurements, Cooperation Program on Drugs Policies between Latin America and the European Union (COPOLAD). December 2013. Santiago, Chile.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Alcohol attributable mortality in Chile”. Taskforce on the implementation of mortality indicators in the reduction of drug demand. Cooperation Program on Drugs Policies between Latin America and the European Union (COPOLAD). Agosto 2013. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Drug and alcohol use in Chile”. Research on demand reduction taskforce. Cooperation Program on Drugs Policies between Latin America and the European Union (COPOLAD). January 2013. Lisboa, Portugal.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Measurement error in national drug surveys”. First workshop on consensus on methods, indicator and protocols. Cooperation Program on Drugs Policies between Latin America and the European Union (COPOLAD). March 2012. Bogotá, Colombia.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Measurement and use of synthetic drugs in Chile”. Primera reunión regional del programa Global SMART (Synthetics Monitoring: Analyses, Reporting and Trends) para América Latina. Global SMART Program, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. September 2011, Lima Perú.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Fundamentos y Técnicas de la Entrevista Motivacional”. XXIV Curso Avances en Pediatría: Pediatría del siglo XXI, perspectivas de un país desarrollado. August 2007. Temuco, Chile.
SCIENTIFIC MEETING PRESENTATIONS (INCLUDES ONLY PRESENTATION AS FIRST AUTHOR)
Castillo-Carniglia A, Webster D, Wintemute G. “Inconsistent effect on background checks of newly-enacted comprehensive background check policies in 4 US states”. 52th SER meeting. June, 2019, Minneapolis. United States. Oral presentation
Castillo-Carniglia A, Pizarro E, Marín MJ, Rodríguez N, Gaete J. “Substance use disorders among cocaine paste users of the Metropolitan Area of Santiago, Chile”. 52th SER meeting. June, 2019, Minneapolis. United States. Poster presentation
Castillo-Carniglia A, Pizarro E, Marín JD, Rodriguez N, Gaete J. “Trastornos por uso de sustancias en usuarios de pasta base del Área Metropolitana de Santiago”. V Congreso Chileno de Salud Pública/VII Congreso Chileno de Epidemiología. December, 2018, Concepción, Chile. Oral presentation. Medwave 2019;19(Suppl 1):SP115
Castillo-Carniglia A. Ponicki W. Gruenewald P. Santaella-Tenorio J. Kim JH. Fink D. Davis C. Martins SS. Pear V. Henry SG. Wintemute GJ. Keyes KM. Cerdá M. “County-level association between medical marijuana laws and prescription opioid overdose deaths in the US”. [Poster presentation in the NIDA International Forum. June, 2018, San Diego, United States].
Castillo-Carniglia A. Gaidus A. Ponicki W. Gruenewald P. Marshall BLD. Fink D. Martins SS. Wintemute GJ. Cerdá M. “Prescription drug monitoring programs and prescription opioid overdose: exploring sources of heterogeneity”. [Poster presentation in CPDD 80th Annual Scientific Meeting. June, 2018, San Diego, United States].
Castillo-Carniglia A. Rivera-Aguirre A. Keyes KM. Cerdá M. “Age-period-cohort effect in marihuana use in three South American countries”. [Poster presentation in 51th Annual Meeting of the Society of Epidemiologic Research. June, 2018, Baltimore, United States].
Castillo-Carniglia A. Ponicki W. Gruenewald P. Santaella-Tenorio J. Kim JH. Fink DS. Davis C. Martins AA. Pear V. Henry SG. Wintemute GJ. Keyes KM. Cerdá M. “Association between medical marijuana laws and prescription opioid overdose deaths: a county-level analysis from 2002 to 2015”. [Poster presentation in 51th Annual Meeting of the Society of Epidemiologic Research. June, 2018, Baltimore, United States].
Castillo-Carniglia A. Gaidus A. Ponicki W. Gruenewald P. Marshall BLD. Fink D. Martins SS. Wintemute GJ. Cerdá M. “Prescription drug monitoring programs and prescription opioid overdose: exploring socioeconomic sources of heterogeneity”. [Oral presentation in 50th Annual Meeting of the Society of Epidemiologic Research. June, 2017, Seattle, United States].
Castillo-Carniglia A. Kagawa RMC. Webster D. Vernik J. Cerdá M. Wintemute G. “Effect of California’s comprehensive background check and misdemeanor violence prohibition policies on firearm mortality”. [Oral presentation in 50th Annual Meeting of the Society of Epidemiologic Research. June, 2017, Seattle, United States].
Castillo-Carniglia A. Pear VA. Shev A. Tracy M. Hamilton A. Keyes KM. Cerdá M. “Limiting alcohol outlet density to prevent violence? Using agent-based models to simulate a population-wide intervention”. [Online abstract in 50th Annual Meeting of the Society of Epidemiologic Research. June, 2017, Seattle, United States].
Castillo-Carniglia A. Kagawa RMC. Webster D. Vernik J. Cerdá M. Wintemute G. “Comprehensive background check policy and rate of background checks in Colorado, Delaware, and Washington”. [Online abstract in 50th Annual Meeting of the Society of Epidemiologic Research. June, 2017, Seattle, United States].
Castillo-Carniglia A Cerdá M, Zheng L. Robins, RW. “Family factors, generational status and substance use disorders among Mexican-origin adolescents”. [Online abstract in 50th Annual Meeting of the Society of Epidemiologic Research. June, 2017, Seattle, United States].
Castillo-Carniglia A. Ponicki W. Gaidus A. Gruenewald P. Marshall BLD. Wintemute GJ. Martins SS. Cerdá M. “Assessing the impact of heterogeneous hospital discharge data systems on the estimation of opioid overdose: implications for longitudinal and cross-state comparison”. [Online abstract in 50th Annual Meeting of the Society of Epidemiologic Research. June, 2017, Seattle, United States].
Castillo-Carniglia A. Kaufman JS. Pizarro E. Marín JD. Wintemute G. Cerdá M. “Effect of the 2011 school strikes and occupations on adolescent marijuana and alcohol use in Chile”. Epidemiology Congress of the Americas. June, 2016, Miami, United States. Oral presentation.
Castillo-Carniglia A. Kaufman JS. Pino P. “Geographical distribution of alcohol attributable mortality in Chile: a Bayesian spatial analysis”. First Latin American ISI Satellite Meeting on Small Area Estimation (SAE). August, 2015. Santiago, Chile. Oral presentation.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Necesidades de investigación en el tratamiento de drogas en Chile”. LXX Conferencia anual SONEPSYN de Psiquiatría. June 2015. Santiago, Chile. Invited oral presentation.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Evaluación de resultados terapéuticos: el Treatment Outcomes Profile (TOP)”. LXVIII Congreso de Neurología, psiquiatría y neurocirugía. October 2013. Viña del Mar, Chile. Invited oral presentation.
Castillo-Carniglia A. Ansoleaga E. “Neighborhood socioeconomic status and security and individual hazardous alcohol drinking in Chile: A multilevel analysis” and “Association between employment status and hazardous alcohol consumption in Chile”. 3rd North American Congress of Epidemiology. Montreal, Canadá. June, 2011, Montreal, Canada. Poster. Am J Epidemiol. 2011;173(Suppl):S48 and S121.
Castillo-Carniglia A. Albala C. “Factores asociados a satisfacción vital en una cohorte de adultos mayores de Santiago, Chile”. 2° Congreso Chileno de Salud Pública. November, 2010, Santiago, Chile. Oral presentation. Rev Chil Salud Pública 2010; Vol 14 (2-3): 302-3.
Castillo-Carniglia, A. Kain, J. “Modificación de los patrones de actividad física en escolares obesos: intervención controlada en madres de Macul, Santiago”. XV Congreso Latinoamericano de Nutrición (SLAN). November, 2009. Santiago, Chile. Oral presentation.
Castillo-Carniglia A. Smith C. Hirsch S. Brito A. “Entrevista motivacional, consumo de frutas y verduras y riesgo cardiovascular en prevención secundaria: ¿Cuál es la evidencia disponible?”. XVIII Congreso de la Sociedad Chilena de Nutrición, Bromatología y Toxicología (SOCHINUT). November, 2008. Puerto Varas, Chile. Poster.
Castillo-Carniglia A. Smith C. Hirsch S. Brito A. “¿Es efectiva la consejería para aumentar el consumo de frutas y verduras y disminuir el riesgo cardiovascular en prevención secundaria?” .XIV Congreso Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Nutricionistas y Dietistas CONFELANYD. October, 2008. Viña del Mar, Chile. Oral presentation.
Castillo-Carniglia A. Smith C. Hirsch S. Brito A. “Efectividad de la consejería para aumentar el consumo de frutas y verduras y disminuir el riesgo cardiovascular en prevención secundaria”. IV Congreso Iberoamericano de Promoción del Consumo de Frutas y Verduras. August 2008. Santiago, Chile. Poster.
Castillo-Carniglia A. “Evolución de la situación nutricional y epidemiológica en Chile: ¿un proceso exitoso?”. Jornada Iberoamericana sobre los efectos de los cambios globales en la salud humana y la vulnerabilidad alimentaria. June 2008. Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Oral presentation.
Castillo-Carniglia A. Romo M. Weisstaub G. Castillo-Durán C. “Estado nutricional, contexto social y cultura alimentaria: visión antropológica de la obesidad infantil”. XLV Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Investigación Pediátrica (SLAIP). October, 2007. La Serena, Chile. Oral presentation.
Castillo-Carniglia A. Romo M. Weisstaub G. Castillo-Durán C. “Estado nutricional, hábitos alimentarios y contexto cultural: una visión antropológica de la obesidad infantil”. IX Congreso Internacional de Obesidad. August, 2007. Santiago, Chile. Poster.
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Deans' Team Award for Excellence
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVIS
Estados Unidos, 2017
UCD School of Medicine Deans' Team Award for Excellence. Award as part of the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program. US$5,000
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Robertson Fellowship in Violence Prevention Research
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVIS
Chile, 2016
Robertson Fellowship, which covered 75% of my effort for two years.
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Dr. Abraham Stekel award
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Chile, 2007
Award for young researchers with academic interests. US$5,300 aprox
La marihuana en el contexto internacional |
Promoting Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs for Population Health: Research and Policy Implications |
LARGE INCREASE IN ADOLESCENT MARIJUANA USE IN CHILE |
Do substance use treatments improve health outcomes among patients? Population risk estimates using a registry-based retrospective cohort design |
Prevalencia, formas de manifestación y factores facilitadores de la violencia laboral y sus efectos en la salud mental en población asalariada en Chile atendiendo desigualdades sociales y de género |
Becas de Postdoctorado en el Extranjero Becas Chile |
California Prescription Drug Monitoring Program enactment, analysis and response initiative |
Health and social consequences of national marijuana legalization |
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and opioid-related harm |
Décimo Primer Estudio Nacional de Drogas en Población Escolar de Chile |
Décimo Primer Estudio Nacional de Drogas en Población Genereal de Chile |
Décimo Estudio Nacional de Drogas en Población Escolar de Chile |
Décimo Estudio Nacional de Drogas en Población General de Chile |
Noveno Estudio Nacional de Drogas en Población Escolar de Chile |
Estudio sobre drogas en consultantes en salas de urgencia |
Beca para estudios de doctorado en Chile |
Evaluación de la prevalencia de anemia ferropriva en una muestra representativa de la Región Metropolitana y Quinta Región de los beneficiarios del Programa Nacional de Alimentación Complementaria (PNAC) |
Evaluación de la estructura, funcionamiento y costos asociados del programa para la detección, diagnóstico y tratamiento de la depresión en APS que se asocian con mejores resultados |
Modificaciones en la composicion corporal con la suplementacion con zinc, en pre-escolares obesos de estratos socioeconomicos bajos |