Carlos Restrepo
Adjunct Associate Professor

Carlos Restrepo is a research scientist at the Wagner School's Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS). His main areas of research include infrastructure security, environmental quality and public health, and environmental policy. In the area of infrastructure security his work has concentrated on analyzing outage and failure data in the electricity and oil & gas sectors, and studying interdependencies among infrastructure systems. This research work is related to projects affiliated with the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), the first university center of excellence funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and with the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (The I3P), a consortium that includes academic institutions, federally-funded labs and non-profit organizations.

Dr. Restrepo is also project manager for the ICIS component of the South Bronx Environmental Health and Policy Study. This is a joint project between NYU's Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, ICIS/Wagner and four South Bronx community groups: We Stay/ Nos Quedamos, the Sports Foundation Inc, The Point Community Development Corporation, and Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice Inc. The main goal of the ICIS component of the project is to examine transportation and waste management activities in the South Bronx and to relate them to environmental quality and public health issues.

Dr. Restrepo has a PhD in Public Administration from NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. His dissertation topic was the association between asthma hospitalizations and air pollution in New York City. Before coming to NYU, Carlos worked for three years in El Salvador as a policy analyst for FUSADES, a non-profit organization, and worked in environmental, energy, telecommunications, and science and technology policy studies. He holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Lehigh University, and a M.S. in International Development and Appropriate Technology from the University of Pennsylvania.











Contact Details

carlos.restrepo@nyu.edu
(212)-992-9867
295 Lafayette Street, 3071
Office Hours: By appointment only
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Areas of Expertise

  • Economics
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health Management
  • Infrastructure
  • International Development
  • Management
  • Poverty
  • Public & Nonprofit Orgs.
  • Technology And Democracy
  • Urban Health
  • Urban Planning
  • Urban Policy