Graduate in Medicine from Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC, 1994), master's at Pathological Anatomy and Clinical Pathology from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP, 1999) and ph.d. at Clinical Medicine from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP, 2005). He is presently Full Professor at Botucatu School of Medicine, UNESP. Has experience in Medicine, focusing on Infectious and Parasitic Illnesses, acting on the following subjects: health surveillance, infection control, healthcare epidemiology and multidrug-resistant organisms. During COVID-19 pandemics, his research has used mathematical models, medical geography and time series analysis to understand the epidemiology of SARS-Covis-2 (with emphasis on areas far from great metropolitan regions) and the effectiveness of public policies for preparedness and response. He is the prinicipal investigator of the Botucatu AztraZeneca vaccine effectiveness project, one of the greatest studies in COVID-19 vaccines worldwide. He is currently the Dean of Botucatu Medical School, São Paulo State University (UNESP) and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Hospital Infection and PLoS One (IF/2022=3.75. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Coronavirus 19 (COVID-19) is a respiratory disease of viral cause that was identified in December 2019 after the first cases in China, spreading rapidly until reaching pandemic status, causing the collapse of numerous health systems and strong impact economic and social. At the end of April 2020, 3.08 million cases and more than 214 thousand deaths were already recorded. The treatment so …
At a meeting convened by the Research Committee of the Faculty of Medicine of Botucatu, with the active participation of its members and at the request of the different areas engaged in research activities, collective needs for improvement of the infrastructure for research were identified. The allocation of the resources of the Institutional Technical Reserve (ITN) was decided at this me…
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This project aims to analyze media narratives about the occurrence of Related Infections to Health - IRAS in Brazil. In this sense, we built our analysis from the following axes: the way in which the public sphere is affected by these narratives; the commotion impulsed by news about this topic; the spread of opinions about IRAS and how they affect the public credibility of science and epi…
Healthcare-Related Infections (HAI) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality, and affect developing countries with particular intensity. HAI are especially frequent in Intensive Care Units (ICU), where patients are severely ill and exposed to invasive devices. The São Paulo State Epidemiological Surveillance Center (CVE-SP) has been monitoring ICU device-associated infections since 20…
"Natural experiments" are studies that evaluate the impact of a natural or artificial intervention, external to the control of the researchers. On October 26, 2010, in an effort to contain the escalation of bacterial resistance to antimicrobials, the National Agency for Sanitary Surveillance (ANVISA) issued the Resolution of the Collegiate Board of Directors (RDC) 44, which conditioned th…
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