Mariana Inglez dos Reis

Mariana Inglez holds a PhD and a Master's degree from the Institute of Biosciences at the University of São Paulo, including a sandwich program at The Ohio State University. She specializes in Bioanthropology and Human Biology, focusing on the interrelationships between health and the environment, evolutionary history, socioeconomics, and biodiversity. Her doctoral research centered on lifestyle changes in Amazonian riverside communities, nutritional transition, and food insecurity.She obtained her degree in Biological Sciences from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and she is also an educator in both formal and informal educational settings. Additionally, she is a specialist in Anthropology and Human Rights from UNIFESP. Over the past six years, she has dedicated herself to multimedia education and scientific dissemination projects in bioanthropology, health, and the environment, including serving as a grantee of Instituto Serrapilheira in 2019, coordinating the project "Evolução para Todas"; organizing the book "Um rio de receitas beiradeiras: resistência, afeto e sabedoria alimentar na Floresta Nacional de Caxiuanã"; and producing multimedia content for research projects at UFOPA and IBUSP.As a bioanthropologist in both academic and private sectors, she has worked as a forensic anthropologist through the UNDP and the Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances of the Presidency of the Republic (CMDP-PR). In this capacity, she contributed to the investigation of the clandestine grave in Perus, aiding in the search for and identification of political disappearances during the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship (2014-2018).Mariana began her work in the Amazon region in 2012 at the Support Center for Amazonian Riverside Populations (NAPRA), focusing on communities affected by the Santo Antônio Hydroelectric Plant (Rondônia), and later in the context of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant (Pará). In 2023, she contributed to research on water insecurity in the outskirts of Belém (PA) in collaboration with The Ohio State University and UFPA. In the same year, she joined the Mancala Institute's food insecurity study group and has since sought to contribute to the interfaces between research aimed at developing public policies for food security and sovereignty, and health for traditional populations aligned with environmental preservation, as well as scientific popularization. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)