Biography

Researcher at the Center for Studies in Workers´ Health and Human Ecology at the National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Currently is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, with the project "POLITICAL ECOLOGY AND EMANCIPATORY HEALTH PROMOTION: REFLECTIONS ON THE EMANCIPATORY POTENTIAL RELATED TO THE SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS". He works in the area of Collective Health and in recent years has been dedicated to the following subjects: political ecology and ecological economics; movements for environmental justice; socio-environmental vulnerability; shared knowledge production; emancipatory health promotion in slums; agrotoxics and agroecological transition; complexity, risks and uncertainties; precautionary principle; post-normal science. He holds a bachelor's degree in Production Engineering from UFRJ (1984) and in Psychology from UERJ (1991), a master's degree and a PhD in Production Engineering from COPPE / UFRJ (1994). He holds a sandwich doctorate (1992-1993) and a postdoctoral research (2001-2003) at the Social Medicine Institute, University of Frankfurt. He works in the Public Health program (master's and doctorate courses) of ENSP / FIOCRUZ, area of concentration "Health-Disease Process, Territory and Social Justice"; and participates as teacher in several latu sensu postgraduate and professional master's degree courses. He is also a lecturer in the International Doctoral Course "Human Rights, Global Health and Politics of Life", offered jointly by Fiocruz and the Center for Social Studies.