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Carlos Gould studies household energy patterns and energy transitions. His research focuses on the health impacts from traditional solid fuel cooking and the promise of clean fuel alternatives to achieve massive health, economic, and social benefits. In particular, he is studying the determinants of cooking patterns and multiple fuel usage (i.e., using a clean fuel and solid fuel concurrently) in Ecuador, India, and Ghana. Through his work he hopes to better understand the role of the cost of clean fuels in adoption and sustained usage, personal exposure to household air pollution in households using clean fuels, and the impact of ambient air pollution on individual personal exposure in clean cooking intervention communities.

Carlos graduated from Yale University with a BA in Environmental Studies in 2015. While at Yale he conducted fieldwork in Honduras and India studying cooking and fuelwood collection patterns. Before coming to Columbia he worked at Berkeley Air Monitoring Group and for the Stockholm Environment Institute conducting household energy research in Peru and Honduras.

As an ISEP student fellow, Carlos is working to understand LPG adoption and usage patterns in India. In addition, he hopes to evaluate sustained LPG usage in households adopting LPG stoves through the Ujjwala program.