CV Lattes
Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduation at Nutrição from Centro Universitário São Camilo - Campus Pompeia (1979), m.sc. at Collective Health from Universidade de São Paulo (1993) and ph.d. at Collective Health from Universidade de São Paulo (1996). Has experience in Saúde Coletiva, focusing on Epidemiologia, acting on the following subjects: nutritional epidemiology, diabetes mellitus, chronic diseases, indigenous health, obesity and nutritional status (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This research line integrates a program of epidemiological surveys on maternal and child health and nutrition in the city of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre state, Western Brazilian Amazon. This is the first birth cohort study in a malaria endemic area - Materno-Infantil no Acre (MINA Study). The central hypothesis is focused on the relations among socioeconomic, intergenerational, and child nutrit…
Indigenous people through a complex process of epidemiological transition in which, even if the infectious and parasitic diseases persist as a major cause of death, there is a parallel significant increase in non communicable diseases and external causes as causes of death. Recent publications have shown that among the indigenous peoples of the Upper Xingu, the prevalence of overweight, c…
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