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Teaching Fellows
The SPSAS Epidemic Preparedness will have teaching fellows who will be working with faculty instructors in the situation rooms that take place during the second week of the intensive program. The fellows are experienced in data analysis for surveillance , epidemics modelling, and working in responses to emergencies and situation rooms.
Ariadne Francisco
Ariadne Francisco is the Coordinator of the National Center for Strategic Information for Health Surveillance at the Brazilian Ministry of Health. She has been working at the Brazilian Ministry of Health since 2020.
She holds a BSc in Collective Health from The University of Brasília, Intermediate Degree from The Epidemiology Training Program Applied to the Services of the Unified Health System (EpiSUS), Specialist in Management of Public Health Policies by the multiprofessional residency program at Fiocruz Brasilia and a MSc in Public Health by The Porto University, Portugal.
Caroline Santos
Caroline Nunes dos Santos is the administrator of the Brazilian community at the Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources platform (WHO) and works on health surveillance monitoring and actions at the Center of Strategic Information on Health Surveillance, at the Ministry of Health.
She holds a BSc in Collective Health at the University of Brasília, Fundamental Level Degree from the Epidemiology Training Program Applied to the Services of the Unified Health System (EpiSUS) , and a specialization in Molecular Epidemiology in Emerging Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (EpiMol). She is currently MSc candidate at the Graduate Program in Collective Health at the University of Brasília.
Magda Duarte
Magda Machado Saraiva Duarte coordinates the Training Program in Epidemiology applied to SUS Services (EpiSUS/CGRESP/CGEMSP/DEMSP/SVSA/MS). She has been working at the Brazilian Ministry of Health since 2016, where he worked in data analysis and information systems in surveillance, and also in training programs.
Magda holds BSc and MsC degress in Collective Health by the University of Brasília, a specialist Degree in Environmental Surveillance (UFRJ) and Fundamental and Advanced degrees from EpiSUS.
Raquel Proença
Raquel Proença works at the Ministry of Health of Brazil as a Technician for the General Coordination of Public Health Emergencies Surveillance (CGEMSP) and is part of the National Rapid Response Team of the Public Health Emergencies Department (DEMSP/SVSA/MS).
Raquel holds a BSc in Colective Health by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and MSc and PhD by the Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. She also graduated by the Epidemiology Training Program Applied to the Services of the Unified Health System (EpiSUS, Fundamental).
Leonardo Souto Ferreira
Leonardo Souto Ferreira is a Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, USA. He currently works with mathematical models of epidemics applied to urban malaria in India, studying the role of climate in transmission.
He also holds a M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics from the Institute of Theoretical Physics, UNESP, Brazil, where he worked with mathematical models of vaccination against COVID-19. And holds a B.Sc. in Physics from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where he worked with image processing and spatiotemporal chaos.
Rafael Lopes
Rafael Lopes is an Associate Postdoctoral Researcher at Yale University, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, and part of Nathan Grubaugh’s lab.
He holds a PhD. by Theoretical Physics Institute and develops computational models to understand, as well as predict, the ecological succession of variants and its burdens for infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Through data analysis of genomic sequence data and epidemiological data, he aims to quantify the impacts of these arms race processes and their impacts on public health.
São Paulo School of
Advanced Science on
Epidemic Preparedness
