Dr. Espinoza studies how public health experts make sense of the connections between environmental conditions, climate change, and infectious diseases and how they imagine adaptive strategies to manage current and future epidemics. Relatedly, she explores how public health experts’ views of the relation between climate, environment, and infectious disease and organizational factors affect current efforts to control and adapt to climate change’s effect on infectious disease transmission.
Her other current research projects include:
- Conformity and frustration in public health experts’ views of health adaptation in Peru
- The limits of the discourse on inter-sectoral work discourse for health adaptation
- The role that PR agents have played in the promotion of insecticides as the main vector control tool in global health from the 1970s until the present