Darwin Del Castillo
Research Assistant
School of Health and Wellbeing
University of Glasgow
Biography
I’m a research assistant in the School of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow. My work focuses on using real-world data and causal inference models to inform health policy and practice.
I also teach in the School of Medicine at Universidad Científica del Sur in Peru.
Interests
- Causal inference
- Epidemiology of NCDs
- Real-world evidence and disease modelling
- Global health
Education
- Master of Public Health, 2025University of Washington
- Doctor of Medicine, 2021Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Research
Peer-Reviewed Manuscripts
Bazo-Alvarez, J.C., Del Castillo, D., Piza, L., Bernabé-Ortiz, A., Carrillo-Larco, R.M., Smeeth, L., Gilman, R.H., Checkley, W. and Miranda, J.J. (2024) “Multimorbidity patterns, sociodemographic characteristics, and mortality: Data science insights from low-resource settings,” Am. J. Epidemiol. [Preprint], (kwae466). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae466.
Del Castillo-Fernández, D., Brañez-Condorena, A., Villacorta-Landeo, P., Saavedra-Garcia, L., Bernabé-Ortiz, A. and Miranda, J. (2021) “Advances in the investigation of chronic non-communicable diseases in peru,” An Fac med, 81(4). Available at: https://doi.org/10.15381/anales.v81i4.18798.
Projects
Multimorbidity clusters in Peruvian population
Tools: R · cluster
Methods: Partition around medoids
Data: Synthetic data using created from the CRONICAS Cohort - Baseline dataset.
Blog
Methods Notes
Short technical posts, annotated code, worked examples, and things I had to figure out the hard way.
A short trip through mediation analysis
[Mar 2026]
A brief summary of a topic rarely covered in postgraduate epidemiology courses.
Teaching
Courses
- Introduction to Epidemiology
- Universidad Científica del Sur · Undergraduate · Current · Instructor
- Thesis Seminar
- Universidad Científica del Sur · Undergraduate · Current · Instructor
- Introduction to Biology
- University of Washington · Undergraduate · 2024 · TA
- Biostatistics and Demography
- Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos · Undergraduate · 2020 · TA
Seminars
- How to identify a viable research question
- Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos · Peru · 2026 · Slides
- Introduction to Stata for Biomedical Researchers
- National Institute of Health · Peru · 2022