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Cristina Possas | |
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| Born | June 5, 1948 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Citizenship | Brazil |
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| Occupation(s) | Minister of health, public health research scientist, infectious disease research scientist, academic |
| Years active | 1985 — present |
| Known for | social epidemiology, Medical research, public health, infectious disease, Emerging infectious disease |
| Title | Professor Fiocruz |
Cristina Possas de Albuquerque (born 5 June 1948) is a Brazilian public health scientist working with infectious diseases and emerging infectious diseases from an eco-social perspective.
She is a Takemi Fellow at Harvard University in Boston, where for 10 years she has been a Visiting Scientist and a Fulbright Fellow. She has been since 1976 a professor at FIOCRUZ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Career
As a Brazilian public health scientist working with infectious diseases from an eco-social perspective, Cristina Possas de Albuquerque (Cristina Possas) has as a policymaker worked closely with public health and environmental scientists and with human rights and social justice civil organizations.
She is a full professor at FIOCRUZ in Brazil, where in 1998 she had earned a PhD in public health, and where she now does research on infectious diseases and teaches a course named "Scientific Methodology" in the Masters and Doctoral Programs of Clinical Research in Infectious Diseases at INI/Fiocruz.
She has been also a professor of health policy at the National School of Public Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil. She was nominated in 1987 by the Brazilian Ministry of Health/Fiocruz to be the National Technical Coordinator of seven Groups supporting the Health Reform in Brazil, whose contributions were later incorporated into the new Brazilian 1988 Constitution in the creation of the SUS.
She also has been a Takemi Fellow at Harvard University, a visiting scientist and Fulbright Fellow, and a member of the Harvard New Diseases Group.
In 2001, she was nominated by the Minister of Science and Technology the National Executive Secretary of the National Technical Biosafety Commission (CTNBio), responsible for the evaluation of GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) projects in the areas of health, agriculture and environment. She was also nominated by the Minister Coordinator of the group responsible for the elaboration of a National Code in Bioethics for Genetic Manipulations.
She held a national position for 10 years as Head of the Research and Development Unit of the National AIDS Program in Brazil, Ministry of Health, supporting research in universities, research institutes and NGOs. She was invited by the Director of the National AIDS Program to conceive and create a new and innovative Research and Technological Development Unit in the Program's structure, with support from the Ministry of Health, the World Bank and the ANRS. She was also Coordinator in Brazil of the ANRS Research Site for10 years, in partnership with the Research Unit in the Brazilian AIDS Program and received a medal from the institution for her coordination, supported by French ANRS coordinator, Bernard Larouzé, in this period.
She has given radio and television interviews on AIDS, Dengue, and Zika.
Positions
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- Full professor, FIOCRUZ (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation/Instituto Oswaldo Cruz), Brazil, 1985–present
- Head, Research and Technological Development Unit, National AIDS Program, Ministry of Health, Brazil, 2002–2011
- National Executive Secretary, National Technical Biosafety Commission (CTNBio), Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil, 2001–2002
- Visiting Scientist, New Diseases Group, Harvard School of Public Health, 1994–2002
- akemi Fellow in International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 1990–1994
- Fulbright Fellow, Harvard University, 1990-1994
Education
- 1972 – Doctor in Psychology, PUC-RIO
- 1980 – Master's Degree in Social Sciences, UNICAMP
- 1988 – PhD in Public Health, National School of Public Health, FIOCRUZ
- 1991 – Post-doctoral, International Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Selected publications
- Keswani C, Possas C, Koukios E Viaggi D. Agricultural Bioeconomy: Innovation and Foresight in the Post-COVID Era, AP, Elsevier, 2021, v.1. p. 1. ISBN 9780323905695 (in press).
- Homma A, Possas C, Noronha J, Gadelha, P (eds.) 2020 [Vaccines and Vaccination in Brrazil: Horizons for the Next 20 years]. Vacinas e Vacinação no Brasil: Horizontes Para Os Próximos 20 Anos. Edições Livres, 1st. edition. Rio de Janeiro 2020.
- Possas C. Larouze B. (eds.) 2013. Propriété intellectuelle et politiques publiques pour l'accès aux antirétroviraux dans les pays du Sud, ANRS, Collection Sciences Sociales et SIDA [Intellectual property and public policies for the access to antirretroviral drugs in the South countries], ANRS, Collection Social Sciences and AIDS].
- Castro, A.C., Possas, C., Godinho, M.M (orgs.) 2011. Intellectual property in Portuguese-speaking countries: themes and perspectives, E-papers.
- Homma, A., Possas, C. (eds.) 2000. Estado da arte e prioridades para pesquisa e desenvolvimento em leptospirose [State of the Art and Priorities for Research and Development in Leptospirosis]. FIOCRUZ.
- Possas, C. 1989. Epidemiologia e Sociedade: Heterogeneidade Estrutural e Saúde no Brasil [Epidemiology and Society: Structural Heterogeneity and Health in Brazil. Hucitec, São Paulo.
- Possas, C. 1980. Saúde e Trabalho: a Crise da Previdência Social [Health and Labour: the crisis of Social Welfare in Brazil], [2nd edition in 1989]. Hucitec. [Winner award of honors from the Brazilian Society of Social Welfare Rights in 1981 for the best book on Social Welfare].
Awards and distinctions
- 1974. Fellowship from Kellogg Foundation's fund to the Laboratory of Medical Education (LEMC), Medical School, UNICAMP.
- 1981. Prize, Brazilian Society of Social Welfare Law, Honors, Best Book on Social Welfare
- 1983. FINEP research grant on Health System Evaluation, coordinating 7 subprojects, Medical School, PUC-Campinas, SP[1]
- 1983. Capes Fellowship, Visiting professor ENSP-FIOCRUZ
- 1984. Fellowship from Italian government for specialization in occupational epidemiology, Clinica del Lavoro. Università degli Studi di Milano
- 1986. Named by Minister of Health member of the Advisory Committee for the 8th National Health Conference
- 1987. Lessa Bastos Award for best presentation on Intoxication and Poisoning in Brazil, Brazilian Society of Toxicology.
- 1989. FINEP (Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos) grant, Coordinator National Multicentric Project Evaluation Health Systems, FIOCRUZ, RJ[1]
- 1990. Named member CNPq scientific board, elected by scientific community in public health
- 1991. Capes Fellowship,[1] Harvard University
- 1991. Fulbright Fellowship, Harvard University.
- 1992. Takemi Fellow, Harvard University.[2]
- 1993. Member, The New York Academy of Sciences
- 1993. Visiting Scientist appointment, funded by Harvard University.
- 1993. CNPq Scientific Productivity Fellowship[1]
- 2001. Named by Minister of Science and Technology Brazilian representative in the Intergovernmental Meeting of the Biosafety Protocol of Cartagena (ICCP-3), Convention on Biological Diversity the Hague, Netherlands
- 2001. Named by Minister of Science and Technology Coordinator of the National Code of Bioethics in Genetic Manipulations, with ministerial funding
- 2002. Named by Diretor of AIDS Program Director for the World Bank national research funding to the Brazilian Ministry of Health, AIDS III Program
- 2009. Named by IAVI's President member of IAVI's Policy Advisory Committee
- 2011. Named by Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise and WHO AIDS Vaccine Program member of organizing committee for the Octave Workshop in Brazil on HIV vaccine trial design and analysis
- 2011. Director funded Research Fellowship, INI, FIOCRUZ
- 2011. Named member INCT-PPED (National Institute for Science and Technology in Public Policies, Strategies and Development) board, Institute of Economics, UFRJ
- 2011. Recognition plaque from ENSP-FIOCRUZ for coordination of Graduate Programs
- 2011. Medal from National French Agency (French government medal) for AIDS and Viral Hepatitis Research (ANRS) for coordination of ANRS Brazilian research site in Brazil
- 2012. Named by FIOCRUZ/BioManguinhos coordinator of national research on vaccine patents
- 2013. Named by Nobel Prize Françoise Barré-Sinoussi member of two working groups at the International AIDS Society's Initiative Towards an HIV Cure
- 2015. Fellowship from LAPCLIN/AIDS, INI, FIOCRUZ
- 2015. Honour Award, Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz, III Annual Seminar
- 2017. Nominated by Ministry of Education/Capes member of National Commission for Award of Best Doctoral Thesis in Medicine in the country.
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