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I am an integrated researcher at the Health and Technology Research Center of the Polytechnic University of Lisbon (H&TRC, Portugal) and a collaborator with the Unity of Democracy and Collective Action at the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (NDAC, CEBRAP, Brazil). My research focuses on the intersections of health, politics, and environmental anthropology, with a particular emphasis on traditional medicine. I privilege anthropology-based methods and interdisciplinary approaches to investigate issues such as nationalism, racialization, and identity among self-identified traditional communities and family farmers in Latin America. In 2023, I completed my PhD in Collective Health (Social Studies of Health) from the University of São Paulo, including a period as a visiting researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) at the University of Lisbon (2021–2022). My dissertation was recognized by the University of São Paulo with the Cecilia Donnangelo Social Studies of Health Prize in 2021 and was nominated by the same institution for the CAPES National Thesis Award in 2024. My first monograph, The Institutionalization of Brazilian Herbal Medication: How the Concept of Traditionality Shapes Identity and Legitimacy, is forthcoming with Hucitec Editors in December/2024. Beyond my academic research, I have extensive teaching experience, having delivered undergraduate and graduate courses in Portugal, Brazil, and Spain, as well as supervised MA theses. As a scientific consultant, I have collaborated with organizations such as the Center for Critical Imagination, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, and the Brazilian Ministry of Health on projects related to public policy, social movements, and citizenship.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Pedro Crepaldi Carlessi

Citation names

  • Carlessi, Pedro
  • Carlessi, Pedro Crepaldi

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5A15-C6DE-FF7B
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6194-2523

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Italian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019 - 2023
Concluded
Collective Health (Doctor)
Major in Social Studies of Health (Medical Anthropology)
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
"The Institutionalization of Brazilian Herbal Medication: how the concept of traditionality shapes identity and legitimacy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Approved with praise and distinction
2021 - 2022
Concluded
Visiting Scholar (Doctor)
Major in Anthropology of Health
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021 - 2022
Concluded
Pedagogical training in higher education (Postgraduate Certificate)
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2021/12/05 - 2021/12/12
Concluded
Case study in Public Polices (Outros)
Major in Public Policy Update
Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento, Brazil
2015 - 2016
Concluded
Environmental Humanities (Master)
Major in Environmental Humanities
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
""leaves from this forest": an analysis of 'plants' and 'herbs' in an Umbanda temple from São Paulo city" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008/02/01 - 2011/11/29
Concluded
Pharmacy (Bachelor)
Universidade São Judas Tadeu, Brazil
"Primary Healthcare Access and the Illness Experiences Lived by Bolivian migrants in São Paulo city, Brazil" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024/04 - Current Postdoc (Research) Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Saúde e Tecnologia, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Saúde e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/11 - 2024/04 Contracted Researcher (Research) Center For Critical Imagination, Brazil
Open Society Foundations, United States
2023/07 - 2023/12 Contracted Researcher (Research) Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento, Brazil
Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento, Brazil
2023/07 - 2023/09 Contracted Researcher (Research) Fiocruz Brasília, Brazil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
2023 - 2023 Contracted Researcher (Research) Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Ministério da Saúde, Brazil
2019 - 2022 Visiting Researcher (Research) Conselho Nacional de Saúde, Brazil
Conselho Nacional de Saúde, Brazil
2019 - 2020 Contracted Researcher (Research) Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Instituto Aggeu Magalhães, Brazil

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2016/09 - 2023/02 Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Senac São Paulo, Brazil
Senac São Paulo, Brazil
2022/08 - 2022/12 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Medicina, Brazil

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2018 - 2023 Contracted researcher Candeia Cultural, Brazil
Secretaria de Cultura e Economia Criativa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
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Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019 - 2023 The Institutionalization of Brazilian Herbal Medication: how the concept of traditionality shapes identity and legitimacy
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PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Concluded
2021 - 2021 Bilongo: the botany of Afro-Portuguese temples
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Technical development
Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes
Cancelled
2021 - 2021 Visiting Scholar, ICS/Portugal: The Institutionalization of Brazilian Herbal Medication: how the concept of traditionality shapes identity and legitimacy
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PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Programa Institucional de Internacionalização, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (PRINT-CAPES)
Concluded
2020 - 2020 Nsaba: plants and cures in Afro-Brazilian religion temples
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Secretaria de Cultura e Economia Criativa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
Secretaria de Cultura e Economia Criativa do Estado de São Paulo
Concluded
2019 - 2019 Nsaba: plants and cures in Afro-Brazilian religion temples
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Secretaria Municipal de Cultura, Brazil
Secretaria Municipal de Cultura de São Paulo
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/04 - Current Health and Technology Research Center
UIDP/5608/HTRC/BIPD/2023/12M
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/04 - 2024/11 From Regulated Citizenship and State Assistance to the Pluralization of Citizenship: Contributions to the Center for Critical Imagination
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Invited Scientist Fellow
Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento, Brazil
Open Society Fundation
Concluded
2024 - 2024 From Regulated Citizenship and State Assistance to the Pluralization of Citizenship
Invited Scientist Fellow
Center For Critical Imagination, Brazil
Open Society Fundation
Concluded
2023/08 - 2023/12 Political Communities: a public policy study case study of primary healthcare in São Paulo
01232
Research Fellow
Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento, Brazil
Concluded
2023 - 2023 The mainstreaming of "traditional medicine" in WHO recommendations, and its - absence of - relation with indigenous and traditional people rights in Latin America
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Research Fellow
Instituto Aggeu Magalhães, Brazil

Organização Pan-americana de Saúde, Brazil
Fundação para o Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico em Saúde
Concluded
2019 - 2022 Health and Democracy: integrated studies about the 16ª Brazilian National Health Conference
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Researcher
Ministério da Saúde, Brazil

Conselho Nacional de Saúde, Brazil
Conselho Nacional de Saúde
Concluded
2020 - 2021 Cartography of herbal medicine in the Brazil: from public health service itineraries to knowledge alliances
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Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Fundação para o Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico em Saúde
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2022 - 2023 International research network on Public Health Systems and Pharmaceutical Assistence (Brazil, Portugal and Spain)
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International network and cooperation
Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - Câmpus de Araraquara, Brazil

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Carlessi, Pedro. [In press] The Institutionalization of Brazilian Herbal Medication: how the concept of traditionality shapes identity and legitimacy. São Paulo, Brazil: Hucitec. 2024.
    Accepted
Book chapter
  1. Carlessi, Pedro. "[In Press] White cloak remedy in black cloak setting: intersections between healing practices in Afro-Brazilian Umbanda shrines". In Cuidado em saúde: estudos socioantropológicos, edited by Régia Oliveira; Edemilson Antunes de Campos; Lucas Pereira de Melo. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Editora Fiocruz, 2025.
    Accepted
Book review
  1. Carlessi, Pedro Crepaldi. "Plants, Popular Religiosities, and Their Flows in Guarani das Missões (RS)". Review of Bom Jardim dos Santos: plantas, religiosidades populares e seus fluxos em Guarani das Missões (RS) 52, (2018): 359-362. https://journals.openedition.org/horizontes/2737.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Carlessi, Pedro Crepaldi. "Instituting Traditional Medicine: changes to identity and legitimacy in global health". Social Theory & Health 22 4 (2024): 269-284. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-024-00213-6.
    Open access • Published • 10.1057/s41285-024-00213-6
  2. Carlessi, Pedro. "The tone of botany: a note on the sensitivity of knowledge". Etnográfica (2024): https://doi.org/10.25660/AGORA0025.G8DC-V290.
    Open access • Published
  3. De Angelis, Luiza Paiva; Carlessi, Pedro Crepaldi. "Uncrossing paths in a Living Pharmacy implementation at Promissão/SP: Andresa Baja". Medicina (Ribeirão Preto) 56 2 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-7262.rmrp.2023.212721.
    Open access • Published • 10.11606/issn.2176-7262.rmrp.2023.212721
  4. Carlessi, Pedro Crepaldi; Azeredo, Maria Victória. "Family farmers and citizen participation of healthcare: active igredients of public herbal medicines in Brazil". Medicina (Ribeirão Preto) 56 2 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-7262.rmrp.2023.212722.
    Open access • 10.11606/issn.2176-7262.rmrp.2023.212722
  5. Carlessi, Pedro Crepaldi; Silva, Katellyn Costa. "Between the local productive arrangement and the industrial pharmaceutical market: setbacks of the public supply of herbal medicines in Ribeirão Preto". Medicina (Ribeirão Preto) 56 2 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-7262.rmrp.2023.212707.
    Open access • 10.11606/issn.2176-7262.rmrp.2023.212707
  6. Carlessi, Pedro; Caramel, Lilian. "Brazil's National Policy on Medicinal Plants Prioritizes Citizen Participation and Social Justice". HerbalGram, American Botanical Council 135 (2022): 26-29. https://www.herbalgram.org/resources/herbalgram/issues/135/table-of-contents/hg135-wnews-brazil/.
    Open access • Published
  7. Pedro Carlessi; José Ricardo Ayres. "Neo-Traditional Medicines: Ethnographic Contributions to Conceptual Definition". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 38 51 (2021): 6-30. https://doi.org/10.3138/cbmh.473-102020.
    Open access • Published • 10.3138/cbmh.473-102020
  8. Carlessi, Pedro Crepaldi. "How to Carry Out a Democratic Ethnobotanical Study". Ethnobiology Letters 10 1 (2019): 113-119. http://dx.doi.org/10.14237/ebl.10.1.2019.1547.
    Open access • Accepted • 10.14237/ebl.10.1.2019.1547
  9. Carlessi, Pedro Crepaldi. "Ways of being, subjects and affection: the participation of plants in the composition of umbanda mediuns". Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas 12 3 (2017): 855-868. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222017000300011.
    Open access • Published • 10.1590/1981.81222017000300011
  10. Pedro Crepaldi Carlessi. "Dimensão e fluxo material das plantas em um terreiro de Umbanda". Avá. Revista de Antropología 27 (2015): 47-62. http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=169049174003.
    Open access • Published
Journal issue
  1. Fabio Carmona; Carlessi, Pedro; Renata Cavalcanti Carnevale; Nelson Filice Barros; Ana Maria Soares Pereira. "Special Issue. Primary health care and public health services: Living Pharmacies in São Paulo State, Brazil". Revista Medicina (Ribeirão Preto) 56 1 (2023): https://www.revistas.usp.br/rmrp/issue/view/12989.
    Published • Coeditor
Preface / Postscript
  1. Fabio Carmona; Pedro Crepaldi Carlessi; Renata Cavalcanti Carnevale; Nelson Filice Barros; Ana Maria Soares Pereira. "Current experiences on herbal medicine and living pharmacies in São Paulo State: a multidisciplinary work". Preface to Medicina (Ribeirão Preto). 2023.
    Published • 10.11606/issn.2176-7262.rmrp.2023.212699
Report
  1. Adrian Gurza Lavalle; Monika Downbor; José Eduardo Leon Szwako; Ana Claudia Cortez; Carlessi, Pedro Crepaldi. 2024. Regulated citizenship and assistance to the pluralization of citizenship: religious associations, nursing homes and medicinal plants.
  2. Carlessi, Pedro Crepaldi. 2024. Therapeutic Pluralism and Citizenship: Confluences and Limits (1970-2020).
  3. Carlessi, Pedro Crepaldi; Islândia Maria Carvalho de Sousa. 2022. Cartography of Herbal Medicine in the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS): From Pathways of Practice to Alliances of Knowledge. https://doi.org/10.35078/DSFRUO.
    10.35078/DSFRUO
Translation
  1. Carlessi, Pedro Crepaldi; Lucas Lima dos Santos. Problemas de comunicação entre cetáceos e outros mamíferos (Original: Bateson, G. Problems in Cetacean and Other Mammalian). Brazil. 2018.
    Published • http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-901X.v0i69p465-477
  2. Carlessi, Pedro Crepaldi; Lucas Lima dos Santos; Joana Cabral de Oliveira. Como os cães sonham: naturezas amazônicas e as políticas do engajamento transespécies (Original: Kohn, E. How Dogs Dream: Amazonian natures and the politics of transspecies engagement). Brazil. 2017.
    Published • 10.4000/pontourbe.3326

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. Calibrating the Gaze: (Self-)Reflective Technologies on Public Health Issues Related to Medication Use. 2017.
Visual artwork
  1. Carlessi, Pedro Crepaldi. Experiment_01: Pandemic Reflections About Some Aspects of Scientific Knowledge.
  2. Carlessi, Pedro; Edilson de Oliveira; Ricardo Chiarella. NSABA Project - Ep.1: Visit to the Redandá (Afro-Brazilian Candomblé Temple).
  3. Carlessi, Pedro; Edilson de Oliveira; Ricardo Chiarella. NSABA Project - Ep.2: CITA, Afro-Cultural Occupation in São Paulo City.

Other

Other output
  1. Museological Collection of Brazilian Public Herbal Medicine. This project establishes a popular museological collection at the History Museum "Carlos Lacaz" (University of São Paulo) focusing on both institutionalized and non-institutionalized herbal medicine practices within Brazil’s public health system. It emphasizes the interactions between state and society, particularly the controversies involving pharmaceuticals, local communities, and family farmers. 2022. Carlessi, Pedro; MOTA, André. https://fm.usp.br/museu/portal/.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/03 In the Deadly Vine of Bureaucracy: The Production of Identity in the Pursuit of the Right to Participate in Public Policies Aimed at Socio-biodiversity II Encontro de Ecologia Política do CRIA
Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022 New ways to socialize old drugs: the institutionalization of "tradition" in WHO guidelines and recommendations RAIMed2022: Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology
Royal Anthropological Institute (Londres, United Kingdom)
2021 The Emergence of Neotraditional Medicines: Identity and Legitimacy of Phytotherapy in the Brazilian Public Health System Seminar Series - Medical Anthropology
ICS, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021 New Ways to Socializing Old Drugs: The Internationalization of Tradition in WHO Guidelines and Recommendations VIII Reunião de Antropologia da Ciência e da Tecnologia
Universidade Federal de São Carlos (São Carlos, Brazil)
2021 White-Coat Medicine in the Black-Coat Temple: Negotiations in the Therapeutic Field IV Reunião de Antropologia da Saúde
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil)
2020 The New Age Barbie: cosmetic subjectivities and body manipulation II combART: art, activism and citizenship
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto (Lisboa, Portugal)
2020 Neotraditional Medications: Ethnographic Contributions to the Conceptual Definition New Social History of Pharmacy & Pharmaceuticals Festival
University of Wisconsin (Madison, United States)
2015 Denaturalizing Nature: 'Plants' and 'Herbs' in an Umbanda Terreiro in São Paulo, SP XVIII Jornadas sobre Alternativas Religiosas en América Latina,
Universidad de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina)
2015 Plants and Knowledge: The Ethnobotanical Experience Between the Umbanda Temple and the Laboratory Reunião de Antropologia do Mercosul
Universidad de Uruguay, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (Montevideo, Uruguay)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/11 - Current Citizen participation in public health policies and decision-making: a literature review from Araraquara/SP city, Brazil
Co-supervisor
Public Health (Degree)
Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - Câmpus de Araraquara, Brazil
2022 - 2022 Pharmaceutical Policies and Changing Social Practices: The Institutionalization of Phytotherapy in Brazil, Spain, and Portugal
Co-supervisor
Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - Câmpus de Araraquara, Brazil

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2024 - 2025 Panel coordination approved, to be held on July/25: "Technoscience and the politics of imagination", IX Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (2024 - 2025/07)
Congress (Co-organisor)
Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
2023/11/22 - 2023/11/23 Panel "Thinking health beyond the human", 5th Brazilian Health Anthropology Meeting (2023/11/22 - 2023/11/23)
Congress (Co-organisor)
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil
2023 - 2023 Organization of the 1st Meeting of the Bipartite Subgroup of Pharmaceutical Assistance of São Paulo State (2023/01/30 - 2023/01/31)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
Secretaria da Saúde do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
2021 - 2021 Round Table organization and participation "Covid pandemic and Afro-Brazilian religions", 4th Brazilian Health Anthropology Meeting (2021 - 2021)
Congress (Member of the Scientific Committee)
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
2021 - 2021 Panel organization "Afro-Brazilian religions and health: perspectives and experiences" 4th Brazilian Health Anthropology Meeting (2021 - 2021)
Congress
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
2020 - 2020 Round table and participation "O que faz um método? Contribuições epistemológicas para (re)pensar as diferentes leituras do real", Simcol 2020 (2020 - 2020)
Round table (Co-organisor)
Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2019 - 2019 Coorganizer, VII Symposium of Postgraduate Students in Collective Health (2019 - 2019)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023 Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Medicinal Plants Used in Phytotherapy Programs of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS)
(Thesis) Arguer
Aline Praxedes Mesquita (Other)
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica, Brazil
2021 Urgent and emergency dental care in primary health care: Covid-19 in focus
(Thesis) Arguer
Gabriel Campos Cristofolli Endich (Other)
Prefeitura do Município de São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
2021 National Policy of Humanization and its application in primary health care: an integrative review
(Thesis) Arguer
Vanessa Dias da Silva (Other)
Prefeitura do Município de São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/12 - Current International Journal for Equity in Health (14759276) Springer
2024/12 - Current Social Science & Medicine (0277-9536) Elsevier
2024 - Current Horizontes Antropológicos (1806-9983)
2020 - Current Saúde em Redes (2446-4813) Rede Unida
2024 - 2024 Saúde em Debate (0103-1104) Brazilian Centre of Health Studies

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024 - Current Unit of Democracy and Collective Action, NDAC/CEBRAP Associate Member
2024 - Current Medical Anthropology Young Scholars, MAYS Associate Member
2023 - Current Society for Medical Anthropology Associate Member
2023 - Current Medical Anthropology Network, EASA Associate Member
2022 - Current Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva, ABRASCO Associate Member
2014 - 2018 Center for the Study of Contemporary Religiosities and Black Cultures, University of São Paulo Associate Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2022 - Current Technical Group for pharmaceutical assistance in primary care, Bipartite Intermanagers Commission, State Department of Health of São Paulo
Member
Secretaria de Saúde do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
2023 - 2023 Ad hoc review to the Brazilian Ministery of Health Guideline "roteiro orientativo ao edital de apoio à estruturação de farmácias vivas"
Advisor / Consultant
Ministério da Saúde, Brazil
2014 - 2016 Elected as a postgraduate student representative in two consecutive elections, Federal University of São Paulo
Member
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2019 - Current Simpósio Discente de Saúde Coletiva, linha de pesquisa: Ciências Sociais e Saúde Graduate Program in Collective Health, University of São Paulo
2020 - 2020 Student Symposium on Public Health, research line: Social Sciences and Health Graduate Program in Collective Health, University of São Paulo
2019 - 2019 David Capistrano Award 2023, Council of State Health Secretaries of São Paulo COSEMS/SP

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023 - 2033 Crashing Legality and Legitimacy in 'Traditional Medicine' Institutions: An Anthropological View of WHO Global Recommendations Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
2023 - 2033 Development of qualitative research methodologies applied to analyze socio-state relations in primary healthcare in Brazil Ministério da Saúde, Brazil
2023/07 - 2029/10 The Promises of Ethnodevelopment: An Anthropology-Based Approach to Public Policies for Family Farmers Related to Herbal Medicine in Contemporary Brazil Fiocruz Brasília, Brazil

Ministério do Desenvolvimento Agrário e Agricultura Familiar, Brazil
2023/08 - 2023/12 Political Communities in Primary Healthcare in São Paulo (1988–2023) Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento, Brazil
2023 - 2023 Political Communities: Ethnography-based analysis of primary healthcare in the city of São Paulo Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento, Brazil
2020 - 2023 Diaspora, Healing, and Care in Afro-Brazilian Terreiros: Development of a Course and Educational Material for the São Paulo State Secretariat of Culture Secretaria de Cultura e Economia Criativa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
2020 - 2021 Human-plant relations: mapping technologies of care in the Brazilian Public Health System (Commissioned by the Ministry of Health, Brazil) Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
2019 - 2019 Mapping Brazilian Hospitals That Provide Traditional Medicine (Development of qualitative methods, PAHO Project) Organização Pan-americana de Saúde, Brazil

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020 - Current And if the laboratory door is left open? a STS look to pharmaceutical's knowledge Pharmaceutical Sciences (Bachelor) Faculdade Florence, Brazil
2024/11/11 - 2024/11/11 [Invited Speaker] An overview to public policy studies Public Health (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/03/30 - 2023/03/30 [Invited Speaker] On the Many Ways of Producing Care: Notes from the Anthropology of Health Técnico Superior Profissional em Intervenção Social e Comunitária (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
2022 - 2022 What does the crossroads teach us? Healing and care from Afro-Brazilian religions Afro-Brazilian Studies (Bachelor (1st cycle)) Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Brazil
2022 - 2022 Anthropological contributions to socio-state relations: a case study on herbal medicine in Brazil Graduate Program in Agroecology and Territorial Development (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil
2022 - 2022 SUS and the invention of integrative and complementary health practices Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Bachelor) Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - Câmpus de Araraquara, Brazil
2022 - 2022 Health-Disease-Care Licenciatura em Medicina (Licenciatura) Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Medicina, Brazil
2021 - 2022 [Invited Speaker] Care reconstruction: an Ethnographic-Base Study on the Implementation of 'Living Pharmacies' Master's in Plant-Based Medicines (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018 - 2022 Nsaba: plants and cures in Afro-Brazilian temples Serviço Social do Comércio Administração Regional no Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
2016 - 2022 Public health Curso Técnico de Farmácia (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) Senac São Paulo, Brazil
2016 - 2022 Fieldwork research proposals in health promotion Curso Técnico de Farmácia (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) Senac São Paulo, Brazil
2021 - 2021 Living Pharmacies and popular knowledge in northeast Brazilian's healthcare services Health Education (Mestrado) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Portugal
2021 - 2021 [Invited speaker] Reconstrucción de la Asistencia Sanitaria en el Sistema de Salud de Brasil Máster Universitario en Especialización Profesional en Farmacia (Master) Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
2021 - 2021 [Invited speaker] Herbal Medicine in Brazil: questioning (bio)technologies Biotechnology (Bachelor) Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil
2018 - 2020 Interdisciplinary Research Projects Curso Técnico de Farmácia Centro Universitário Senac, Brazil
2018 - 2018 Nsaba: plants and cures in Afro-Brazilian temples Exposição Histórias afro-atlânticas (Licence) Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Brazil

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2025/03 Brazilian Phytotherapy Will Have an Unprecedented Collection at the University of São Paulo Jornal da USP
2024/12 A museological collection devoted to social movements related to the provision of herbal remedies within the Brazilian public health system ObservaPICS Bulletin, Fiocruz Ed.
2024/11 "The Dilemma of Industrialization in Brazilian Herbal Medicine" Revista Radis
2024 "Popular Museological Collection Project Recovers the Memory of Herbal Medicine Practices in Brazilian Public Health" Revista Radis
2022 "Cartography Provides Visibility to Cultivation Models and the Supply of Medicinal Plants in the SUS" Boletim Evidências Fiocruz número10-11; ISBN 2675-1674
2022 "Round Table about the Implementation of Herbal Gardens in the Brazilian Public Health System" ObservaPICS
2021 Interview on the challenges for the viability of phytotherapy services in SUS health units. Boletim Evidências, ObservaPICS, Fiocruz
2021 "Phytotherapy in SUS: new map points to a diversity of models." Boletim Evidências, ObservaPICS, Fiocruz
2019 "The Farmácia Viva/Therapeutic Gardens Program is the main legacy of herbalist Terezinha Rêgo for Maranhão." Revista Inovação FAPEMA nº38

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2024/01/17 - 2024/01/17 TV Show: Nossa Casa (TV rSUL) Challenges for the National Policy on Medicinal Plants and Herbal Medicines
2021 - 2021 Interview to Fiocruz Science Bulletin Mapping of Herbal Medicine in Brazil
2021 - 2021 TV Program "Guests' Room" Dilemmas of the Institutionalization of Integrative and Complementary Practices in Brazil
2020 - 2020 Manhã Difusora Herbal Medicine in Brazil
2020 - 2020 "ComSaúde" TV Program Brazilian Herbal Medicine

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2015 - 2015 Mentoring, Anthropology department, course "Anthropology of Biology", professor Joana Cabral de Oliveira and Stelio Marras Anthropology Graduate Program, Institute of Brazilian Studies

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022 - 2022 Ad hoc book review to Fiocuz editor Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Distinctions

Award

2021 Honorable Mention in Social Sciences & Health. Cecília Donnangelo Award. University of São Paulo
Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Other distinction

2024 Nomination by the University of São Paulo for the 2024 CAPES National Thesis Award
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brazil