Jorge Caballero

Best known for leading the team of volunteers responsible for COVID-19 testing site data that informed pandemic response efforts nationwide. He also translated data into insights and stories that were featured in national media outlets such as ABCNews, Axios, and Marketplace. He informs policymakers and collaborates with teams working at the intersection of data, AI/ML, and business— with an emphasis on their collective impact on individual privacy and society at large.

Headshot image of Jorge Caballero, a tech innovator, policy advocate, and lapsed physician-scientist.

In the news

AUG 17, 2021

Hospitals are short-staffed and running out of beds. Again.

What I’m seeing is that in states like Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, Missouri, more than one out of five hospitals are reporting that they have a critical staffing shortage.
— Jorge Caballero, MD

InFORMING POLICYMAKERS

Dr. Caballero’s work as the basis for U.S. Senate oversight activities: In October 2020, United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, sent letters to five of the largest retail testing providers and the National Community Pharmacists Association requesting information on the availability of pediatric testing for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at their COVID-19 testing sites.

In our 2020 testimony to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, we cited such examples as “historic decimation” of Hispanic communities across Texas. Now, the actual numbers from the Texas Department of State and Health Services and an analysis from [Dr. Jorge] Caballero provide hard data to back our statements.
— U.S. Rep Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) and Dr. Peter Hotez

Collaborations with journalists