LIGIA BITTENCOURT KISS

Lecturer in social epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is currently working in two main projects: evaluation of a complex intervention to prevent human trafficking in South Asia (India, Bangladesh e Nepal) in collaboration with the Department for International Development of the British Government (DFID) and the International Labour Organization (ILO); multicountry study on human trafficking in the subMekong region (Cambodia, Vietnam e Thailand) in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (OIM) and Anesvad Foundation. More recent work include two randomised cluster trials to evaluatie interventions to prevent violence against women (Uganda and Cote d'Ivoire), evaluation of the Asian anti-trafficking prevention programme of a large international NGO, UNICEF study on trafficking of children in Zambia and analysis of data from the WHO multi-country study on domestic violence and women's health (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, ESRC). Graduated in Social Sciences from University of Sao Paulo (2002), in Anthropology from Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille 3, France (2000) and in Business and Administration from Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo (2004). She obtained her MPhil (2004) and PhD (2009) at the Medical School University of Sao Paulo in 2004 and 2009, respectively. She was awarded a scientific initiaion and doctorate scholarship by FAPESP. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)