Personal identification

Full name

Plácida Maholela

Citation names

• Maholela, Plácida

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

E31B-B7B8-4517

ORCID iD

0000-0002-4729-0952

Email addresses

• placida.maholela@ins.gov.mz (Professional)

Knowledge fields

• Agrarian Sciences - Veterinary Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)

	Degree	Classification
2024/09/01 - 2028/09/30 Ongoing	Biomedicina e Ciências da Saúde (Doutoramento) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2011/02/04 - 2017/05/08 Concluded	Medicina Veterinária (Licence) Major in Medicina Veterinária Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique "Avaliação Microbiológica da adição de Salmoura em Carcaças de frango produzidas em Maputo" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	12

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/12/04 - Current	Research	Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Mozambique

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022/12/11 - Current	Prevalência de Doenças Zoonóticas Ocupacionais em grupos de Risco específicos na zona sul de Moçambique 1 Coordinator Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Mozambique	Ongoing
2021/11 - Current	Epidemiology and characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 infection among children and their households in Mozambique 260403 Researcher Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Mozambique	Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Concluded
2021/05 - Current	Avaliação da Plataforma digital para detecção precoce de casos COVID-19 e outras Infecções Respiratórias Agudas a nível comunitário e hospitalar em Moçambique 20-45012 Researcher Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Mozambique	Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance Ongoing
2021/05 - Current	Avaliação da Plataforma digital para detecção precoce de casos COVID-19 e outras Infecções Respiratórias Agudas a nível comunitário e hospitalar em Moçambique 20-45012	Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance
2020/08/31 - Current	Evaluation of the environmental and entomological determinants of urban transmission of CHIKV in the city of Quelimane, Mozambique 3 Supervisor Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Mozambique	Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Concluded
2019/02/08 - Current	Characterization of the diversity of and human immune responses against CHIKV strains from Mozambique – Instituto Nacional de Saúde- Ministério da Saúde –Moçambique GO 2153/3-1 Research Technician Fellow Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Mozambique	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2020 - Current	Strengthening the National Institute of Health in the Republic of Mozambique 5 NU2HGH000051-02-00 Technical development Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Mozambique	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Ongoing

Publications

Journal article

Chongo, Inocêncio; Tivane, Almiro; Monteiro, Vanessa; Inlamea, Osvaldo; Maholela, Plácida; Nhanombe, Ilda; Ibraimo, Saquibibi; et al. "Outcomes from a Zoonotic Disease Prioritization workshop using One Health approach in Mozambique, 2018 to 2023". One Health Outlook 6 1 (2024): https://doi.org/10.1186/s42522-024-00113-9. Open access Bauhofer, Adilson Fernando Loforte; Miranda, Emerson; Ussivane, Édio; Chissaque, Assucênio; António, Luciana; Campos, Fernanda; Pololo, Ramígio; et al. "Burden of COVID-19 in the Pediatric Population at Hospital Central de Maputo, Mozambique, October 2020 to October 2022". Viruses 16 7 (2024): 1112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v16071112. Published • 10.3390/v16071112 Bauhofer, Adilson Fernando Loforte; Ussivane, Édio; Chissaque, Assucênio; Iahaia, Fátima; Pololo, Ramígio; Campos, Fernanda; Miranda, Emerson; et al. Corresponding author: Bauhofer, Adilson Fernando Loforte. "SARS-CoV-2 in Mozambican primary school-aged children at Maputo City and Province: a cross-sectional study from a low-income country". BMC Pediatrics 24 1 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-024-04904-x. 10.1186/s12887-024-04904-x Rachid Muleia; Genito Maúre; Américo José; Plácida Maholela; Isaac Akpor Adjei; Md. Rezaul Karim; Sónia Trigo; et al. "Assessing the Vulnerability and Adaptation Needs of Mozambique’s Health Sector to Climate: A Comprehensive Study". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21050532. 10.3390/ijerph21050532 John Oludele; Pascoal Alho; Inocêncio Chongo; Plácida Maholela; Vlademiro Magaia; Argentina Muianga; Bibiana Melchior; et al. "Emerging Zoonotic Diseases among Pastoral Communities of Caia and Búzi Districts, Sofala, Mozambique: Evidence of Antibodies against Brucella, Leptospira, Rickettsia, and Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus". Viruses (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/v15122379. 10.3390/v15122379 Vánio André Mugabe; Osvaldo Frederico Inlamea; Sádia Ali; Plácida Maholela; Bibiana Melchior; Argentina Felisbela Muianga; John Oludele; et al. "Surveillance for arboviruses and leptospirosis among non-malarial acute febrile illness outpatients in areas affected by Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique". Frontiers in Tropical Diseases 4 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fitd.2023.1091545. 10.3389/fitd.2023.1091545 Aquino Albino Nhantumbo; Charlotte Elizabeth Comé; Maholela, Plácida; Alcides Moniz Munguambe; Paulino da Costa; Mariana Mott; Gabriella Rosa Cunha; et al. Corresponding author: Aquino Albino Nhantumbo. "Etiology of meningitis among adults in three quaternary hospitals in Mozambique, 2016–2017: The role of HIV". PLOS ONE 17 5 (2022): e0267949-e0267949. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267949. 10.1371/journal.pone.0267949

Preprint

Sádia Ali; Osvaldo Inlamea; Maholela, Plácida; Argentina Muianga; John Oludele; Bibiana Melchior; Virgilio Antonio; et al. Corresponding author: Sádia Ali. "Investigation of antibodies against Chikungunya, Dengue and Zika virus in serum samples from febrile patients and its co-occurrence with malaria in six districts highly endemic for malaria in Mozambique between 2017 – 2018". 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.10.22276235. 10.1101/2022.06.10.22276235