Teaching and researching in themes related to Global Changes and Health, including sustainable development, global health, environmental health, climate change, and governance for health. Currently, he collaborates in sustainable development and environmental health-related projects, including a FIOCRUZ-NIH research project on Zika Virus Infection, FIOCRUZ Strategy on Agenda 2030, and other activities of the FIOCRUZ's international agenda.
Serve for 25 years at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office of the World Health Organization for the Americas (WHO), lately as Head of Sustainable Development, Environmental Health and Health Equity. Responsible for managerial guidance, resources' mobilization, and technical and scientific guidance for the organizational efforts on sustainable development, environmental health, climate change, urban health and social determinants of health, supervising the PAHO's high-level teams of advisors and directly preparing complex scientific, technical and political documents for the Region of the Americas and Global international health governance process.
Contributed and participated in relevant high-level meetings on UN Agenda 2030 and its sustainable development goals, ICPD25, the Rio+20 Summit, the 2015 UN Summit on Sustainable Development, and the Climate Change COPs.
Education:
Doctor of Sciences – April 2015 – UFRJ
Theme: Health in the Era of Sustainable Development: New UN Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development and Health
Thesis: http://www.posgraduacao.iesc.ufrj.br/media/tese/1435672155.pdf (in Portuguese)
Master in Sciences in Public Health – 1989 – ENSP/FIOCRUZ
Theme: Where we live, work, play, and what we consume is good for health?
Thesis: Where we live, where we work, and what we consume is bad for health? (in Portuguese)
Medical Doctor| 1977 | FMABC
Internal Medicine, Public Health, Psychiatry
Experience:
Head of Sustainable Development, Environmental Health and Health Equity – PAHO/WHO 2003-2016
Coordinator and Regional Advisor of the Environmental Quality Program – PAHO/WHO 1994 -2003
Regional Advisor on Environmental Epidemiology of the Pan-American Center for Human Ecology and Health – PAHO/WHO 1991-1994
Professor and Founder Coordinator of the Center for Workers’ Health and Hunan Ecology – CESTEH/FIOCRUZ 1985-1991
Senior Researcher at FIOCRUZ Global Health Center – CRIS 2016 – current