Guto Galvão is a medical doctor with a master’s degree in public health and a Ph.D. in Collective Health. He is a senior researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation’s Center for Global Health (CRIS/FIOCRUZ), where he is responsible for the area of Environment, Climate, and Global Health. Since 2016, he has been a special advisor to the president of Fiocruz, coordinating a task force on Integral Surveillance for the Pandemic, a Fiocruz-USP task force on Pandemic Treaty and IHR revision, and representing Fiocruz before US Institutions and WHO. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
Previously, he worked for 25 years at the Pan American Health Organization, where he organized and led the areas of sustainable development, health equity, and environmental health. He was also a professor at the National School of Public Health in Brazil, the founding coordinator of the Center for Studies on Occupational Health and Human Ecology Studies (CESTEH/ENSP/FIOCRUZ), and the past president of the Brazilian Society of Toxicology (SBT). He was responsible for drafting documents for global events, including the WHO and PAHO governing bodies, the UN Sustainable Development Summit that adopted the 2030 Agenda in 2015, and the 2015 UNFCCC COP21 that adopted the Paris Agreement.