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Jorge Varanda, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, where he coordinates the master of Anthropology, globalization and climate change, and he is a member of the Direction of the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) and its ethical committee. His research focuses on global health and epidemiology, ethics, urbanization and climate change in Portuguese-Speaking countries. His recent publications include “” “Putting Anthropology in Global Health” in Anthropology in Action (2019), co-author "Chasing a ghost: present distribution and conservation of the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys) in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa” in Primate (2020) and more recently, the chapter “The Emergence and Spread of HIV-2 in Ivory Coast and Guinea-Bissau” in the book Histories Of HIVs - Social Contexts of the Emergence of HIV/AIDS, (2021).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Jorge Filipe de Sousa Varanda

Citation names

  • Ferreira, Jorge
  • Varanda, Jorge

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
E41F-83AB-4C1D
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2666-883X

Email addresses

  • jorge.varanda@uc.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2007/04/25
Concluded
 Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine (Doutoramento)
University College London Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
"A Ciência Médica na Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (1920-1974)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2001 - 2007
Concluded
 PhD (Postgraduate Certificate)
University College London Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine, United Kingdom
"“A Bem da Nação”: Medical Science in a Diamond Company in Twentieth-Century Colonial Angola" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 PhD
2000 - 2001
Concluded
 Medical Anthropology (Mestrado)
University College London Subsection of Medical Anthropology, United Kingdom
"Diamang's Anti-sleeping sickness campaings- A Labour Management Strategy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1995 - 2000
Concluded
 Social and Cultural Anthropology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"A Diamang e a Doença do Sono : Um caso ímpar no colonialismo português" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2008/05/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2015 - 2019 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Global Health and Tropical Medicine - IHMT, Portugal
2013 - 2016 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal
2007 - 2015 Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
2009 - 2013 Researcher (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/01/20 - 2018/05/31 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Brown University, United States
Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, United States
2017 - 2018 Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa, Portugal
2011/09/01 - 2016/08/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2014 - 2016 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
2013 - 2016 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2011 - 2012 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018 - Current Direction (Secretary) - responsible for Funding and Projects Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015 - 2017 Responsable For Archival of Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2012/12/01 - 2012/12/31 Consultant, for the design, application and analysis of a Knowledge and Behavior and Practice (KAP) for the program Mobile Health among immigrants and Intravenous Drug users on HIV/AIDS in the Lis Médicos do Mundo, Portugal
2010/09/30 - 2012/12/31 Consultant, Protocol for the testing of the Verbal Autopsies of the World Health Organisation (WHO), CISA, September–December. Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Angola, Angola
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2011 - 2012 OE. Strategic Project - LA 18 - 2011-2012
OE/SAU/LA0018/2011
 Universidade de Coimbra
2005/06 - 2007/12 The Tropical Medicine and the Portuguese colonies (1887-1942)
Provided by PTCRIS: 60184
 Universidade de Coimbra

Contract

Designation Funders
2017 - 2018 Data Sharing in Public Health Emergencies - Ebola, 2014-16 and Yellow Fever, 2016.
IRB2018-07
Researcher
Wellcome Trust
Concluded
2016/08/01 - 2017/07/31 Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang) – Serviço de Informação e Diligências - Uma Memória Subv(m)ersa.
143142
Principal investigator
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Concluded
2016 - 2017 Urban Malaria in Africa: new insights into social, geographic and vector population genetics factors
n/a
Other
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
Concluded
2014 - 2017 An International Collaboration on the Political, Social, and Cultural History of the Emergence of HIV/AIDS
RZ5152313
Researcher
Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, United States
 National Endowment for the Humanities
Concluded
2010/01/15 - 2013/01/14 Recalling a Neglected Disease - An Historical-Anthropological view of Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) in Angola, ca. 1900s - present.
Provided by PTCRIS: 100646
Principal investigator
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/01/15 - 2013/01/14 Recordar uma Doença Esquecida - Uma Visão Histórico-Antropológica da Tripanossomíase Humana Africana (Doença do Sono) em Angola, ca. 1900- presente.
PTDC/AFR/100646/2008
Principal investigator
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/01/15 - 2013/01/14 Recalling a Neglected Disease - An Historical-Anthropological view of Human African Trypanosomiasis Sleeping Sickness in Angola, ca. 1900s - present.
PTDC/AFR/100646/2008
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2007/05/01 - 2012/08/31 CONTINUIDADE E/OU RUPTURAS NA TRANSIÇÃO HISTÓRICA COLONIAL/PÓS-INDEPENDÊNCIA- OS CUIDADOS DE SAÚDE EM CONTEXTOS DA LUSOFONIA
SFRH/BPD/30439/2006
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/04/01 - 2011/03/31 IMPERIOS, CENTROS E PROVINCIAS: A CIRCULAÇÃO DO CONHECIMENTO MÉDICO
PTDC/HCT/72143/2006
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/04/01 - 2011/03/31 EMPIRES, CENTERS AND PROVINCES: THE CIRCULATION OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE
PTDC/HCT/72143/2006
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2005/06/20 - 2007/12/31 A Medicina Tropical e as colónias portuguesas (1887-1942)
POCI/HCT/60184/2004
Researcher
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2005/06/20 - 2007/12/31 The Tropical Medicine and the Portuguese colonies 1887-1942
POCI/HCT/60184/2004
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2001/12/01 - 2005/11/30 A CIÊNCIA MÉDICA NA COMPANHIA DE DIAMANTES DE ANGOLA 1920-1974
SFRH/BD/4774/2001
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2001/01/01 - 2001/11/30 Not available
SFRH/BM/2290/2000
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2020 - Current Antropia - Um Blogue Catalisador da Ciência
UC- 730 anos
Principal investigator
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
 Universidade de Coimbra
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. varanda, Jorge. "“The Emergence and Spread of HIV-2 in Ivory Coast and Guinea-Bissau”, Histories Of HIVs - Social Contexts of the Emergence of HIV/AIDS”". In The Histories of HIVs: The Emergence of the Multiple Viruses that Caused the AIDS Epidemics, edited by William Schneider. Indiana University Press, 2021.
    Published
  2. Ferreira, Jorge. "Preleção sobre Poesia de Agostinho Neto". In Dia do Herói Nacional, 9-28. Porto, Portugal: Consulado Geral da República de Angola no Porto, Norprint, 2013.
    Published
  3. Ferreira, Jorge. "A asa protectora de Outros: As relações transcoloniais do Serviço de Saúde da Diamang". In Circulação do Conhecimento Médico, edited by Prof. Cristiana Bastos; Renilda Barreto, 287-314. Lisboa, Portugal: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2012.
    Published
  4. Ferreira, Jorge. "Crossing Colonies and Empires: the Health Services of the Diamond Company of Angola". In Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective, edited by Anne Digby; Projit B. Muhkarji; Waltraud Ernst, 165-184. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.
    Published
  5. Ferreira, Jorge. "Um Cavalo de Tróia na Colónia? Missões de Profilaxia Contra a Doença do Sono da Diamang". In Os Saberes da Cura, Antropologia da Doença e Práticas Terapêuticas, edited by Luís Silva Pereira; Chiara Pussetti, 79-110. Lisbon, Portugal: ISPA/CEAS, 2009.
    Published
  6. Ferreira, Jorge. "O Biombo de Fotos/The Screen of Photos". In Missão Botânica: Transnatural – Angola 1927-1937,, edited by Paulo Bernachina; Alexandre Ramires. Coimbra, Portugal: Artez, 2007.
    Published
Book review
  1. Ferreira, Jorge. "Marcos Cueto – The value of health: a history of the Pan American Health Organization, Washington D.C., Pan American Health Organization, 2007, p. 239". XlV, 194 (2010): 198-201. http://analisesocial.ics.ul.pt/documentos/1268307806O0nYX7yw6Dv31RD3.pdf.
    Published
  2. Ferreira, Jorge. "Cláudia Castelo, Passagens para África. O Povoamento de Angola e Moçambique com Naturais da Metro´pole, Porto, Edições Afrontamento, 2007, 405 pp.". 13, 1 (2009): 227-228. https://journals.openedition.org/etnografica/1281.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Pineda-Peña, Andrea-Clemencia; Varanda, Jorge; Theys, Kristof; Bártolo, Inês; Leitner, Thomas; Taveira, Nuno; Vandamme, Anne-Mieke; Abecasis, Ana B.. "The contribution of Angola to the early spread of the HIV-1 epidemic". 2015.
Conference poster
  1. Ferreira, Jorge; Birck, Jordana. "Malaria Control Strategies in Angola - 1980-2015- A History unfolding". Paper presented in Workshop "Malaria transmission: current challenges and new tools in the elimination context", NOVA Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Portugal, 30-31 October, 2017.
  2. Ferreira, Jorge; Andrea-Clemencia Pineda-Peña; Theys, Kristof; Bártolo, Inês; Leitner, Thomas; Taveira, Nuno; Vandamme, Anne-Mieke; Abecassis. "The contribution of Angola to the early spread of the HIV-1 epidemic". Paper presented in 22nd International HIV Dynamics and Evolution. Budapest, Hungary, 13-16 May 2015, 2015.
  3. Ferreira, Jorge. "A century of heath programs against Human African Trypanosomiasis". Paper presented in Health in Africa Workshop, African Studies Association, Washington, USA, 2011.
  4. Ferreira, Jorge; Rodrigues, Ana; Rosário, Edite; Saturnino, Roberta; Machado, Eduardo; Abreu, Janet; Andéssaldela, Feliciana; Monclus, Assumpta Bou; Nery, Susana Vaz. "The implementation of a Verbal Autopsy in Bengo: study of deaths of children until 15 years-old". Paper presented in INDETH Scientific Conference, Moçambique, 2011.
Journal article
  1. Ferreira da Silva, Maria Joana; Borges, Filipa; Costa, Mafalda; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; Casanova, Catarina; Lecoq, Miguel; Silva, Cristina; et al. "Chasing a ghost: notes on the present distribution and conservation of the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys) in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa". Primates (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10329-020-00817-2.
    Open access • Published • 10.1007/s10329-020-00817-2
  2. Ferreira da Silva, Maria Joana; Paddock, Christina; Gerini, Federica; Borges, Filipa; Aleixo-Pais, Isa; Costa, Mafalda; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; et al. "Chasing a ghost". (2020): http://hdl.handle.net/10362/100481.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-020-00817-2
  3. Varanda, Jorge; Théophile, Josenando. "Putting Anthropology into Global Health". Anthropology in Action 26 1 (2019): 31-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/aia.2019.260104.
    Published • 10.3167/aia.2019.260104
  4. Varanda, Jorge; Théophile, Josenando. "Putting Anthropology into Global Health". (2019): http://hdl.handle.net/10316/101616.
    https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2019.260104
  5. Craveiro, Isabel; Gonçalves, Luzia; Varanda, Jorge; Salgueiro, Patrícia. "Malaria transmission: current challenges and new tools in the elimination context – revisiting a workshop at IHMT.". Malaria transmission: current challenges and new tools in the elimination context – revisiting a workshop at IHMT. 16 (2018): 41-44. http://anaisihmt.com/index.php/ihmt/article/view/26.
    Published
  6. Rosário, Edite Vila Nova; Costa, Diogo; Timóteo, Luís; Rodrigues, Ana Ambrósio; Varanda, Jorge; Nery, Susana Vaz; Brito, Miguel; et al. "Main causes of death in Dande, Angola: results from Verbal Autopsies of deaths occurring during 2009–2012". BMC Public Health 16 1 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3365-6.
    Open access • Published • 10.1186/s12889-016-3365-6
  7. Pineda-Peña, Andrea-Clemencia; Varanda, Jorge; Sousa, João Dinis; Theys, Kristof; Bártolo, Inês; Leitner, Thomas; Taveira, Nuno; et al. "On the contribution of Angola to the initial spread of HIV-1". Infection, Genetics and Evolution 46 (2016): 219-222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2016.08.009.
    Published • 10.1016/j.meegid.2016.08.009
  8. Rosário, Edite Vila Nova; Costa, Diogo; Timóteo, Luís; Rodrigues, Ana Ambrósio; Varanda, Jorge; Nery, Susana Vaz; Brito, Miguel. "Main causes of death in Dande, Angola: results from verbal autopsies of deaths occurring during 2009–2012". (2016): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/6347.
    10.1186/s12889-016-3365-6
  9. Rosário, Edite; Costa, Diogo; Timóteo, Luís; Rodrigues, Ana Paula; Varanda, Jorge; Vaz Nery, Susana; Brito, Miguel. "Main causes of death in Dande, Angola: results from Verbal Autopsies of deaths occurring during 2009–2012". (2016): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/4272.
    10.1186/s12889-016-3365-6
  10. Pineda-Peña, Andrea-Clemencia; Varanda, Jorge; Sousa, João Dinis; Theys, Kristof; Bártolo, Inês; Leitner, Thomas; Taveira, Nuno; Vandamme, Anne-Mieke; Abecasis, Ana B.. "On the contribution of Angola to the initial spread of HIV-1". (2016): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/30462.
    10.1016/j.meegid.2016.08.009
  11. Nova Rosario, Edite Vila; Costa, Diogo; Timoteo, Luis; Rodrigues, Ana Ambrosio; Varanda, Jorge; Nery, Susana Vaz; Brito, Miguel. "Main causes of death in Dande, Angola: results from Verbal Autopsies of deaths occurring during 2009-2012". (2016): http://hdl.handle.net/10362/36685.
    https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3365-6
  12. Varanda, Jorge. "Book Review - Ruth J. Prince; Rebecca Mrsland (Eds), Making and unmaking public health in Africa: Ethnographic and historical perspectives". Global Public Health 10 8 (2015): 1008-1010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2015.1062530.
    Published • 10.1080/17441692.2015.1062530
  13. Viegas, Fátima; Varanda, Jorge; Viegas, F.; Varanda, J.. "Knowledge and healing practices in the neo-traditional churches in Luanda: Charisma, participation and women biographies | Saberes e práticas de cura nas igrejas neotradicionais em Luanda: carismas, participação e trajetórias das mulheres". Etnografica 19 1 (2015): 189-224. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.3957.
    Open access • Published • 10.4000/etnografica.3957
  14. Varanda, J.. "Introduction: Angola in the passage of time | Introdução: Angola na passagem do tempo". Etnográfica 19 1 (2015): 123-138. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84924294372&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Open access • Published
  15. Varanda, J.. "Biomedical health care in Angola and in the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, circa 1910-1970 | Cuidados biomédicos de saúde em Angola e na Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, c. 1910-1970". Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos 21 2 (2014): 587-608. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84904410544&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1590/S0104-59702014000200008
  16. Varanda, J.; Cleveland, T.. "(Un)healthy relationships: African labourers, profits and health services in angola's colonial-era diamond mines, 1917-75". Medical History 58 1 (2014): 87-105. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84890470014&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1017/mdh.2013.73
  17. Varanda,Jorge. "Cuidados biomédicos de saúde em Angola e na Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, c. 1910-1970". (2014): http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702014000200587.
  18. Varanda, J.. "Filhos, enteados e apadrinhados: Discursos, políticas e práticas dos serviços de saúde da Diamang, Angola". Antropologia Portuguesa 29 (2012): 141-165. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84890489563&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.14195/2182-7982_29_10
  19. Varanda, Jorge. "Filhos, enteados e apadrinhados: discursos, políticas e práticas dos serviços de saúde da Diamang, Angola". (2012): http://hdl.handle.net/10316/102732.
    https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-7982_29_10
  20. Varanda, J.. "Book Review - James L. A. Webb Jr, Humanity's Burden: A Global History of Malaria". Social History of Medicine 23 2 (2010): 441-443. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkq034.
    10.1093/shm/hkq034
  21. Varanda,Jorge. "The value of health: a history of the Pan American Health Organization". (2010): http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0003-25732010000100013.
  22. Varanda, J.. "Health and Angola's Companhia de Diamantes | A saúde e a Companhia de Diamantes de Angola.". Historia, ciencias, saude-Manguinhos 11 Suppl 1 (2004): 261-268. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-7744247452&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published
  23. Varanda, Jorge. "The Brave New World of Diamang". Wellcome History 21 (2002):
    Published
Journal issue
  1. Ferreira, Jorge. "Special issue "Diamang – A Dupla Face do Colonialismo Português"". Revista História - Jornal de Notícias 8 (2017): http://jnhistoria.jn.pt/edicao-08/#tema.
    Published • Editor
  2. Ferreira, Jorge. "Dossier "Angola: a vertigem da modernidade e o lastro do passado"". Etnografica 19 1 (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.3866.
    Published • 10.4000/etnografica.3866
Manual
  1. Varanda, Jorge. Manual for Fieldworkers - Verbal Autopsy | Manual para Trabalhadores no Campo - Autópsia Verbal. Angola: Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Angola (CISA). 2010.
    Published
Report
  1. Varanda, Jorge; Sharon Abramowitz; Tamara Giles-Vernick; Jim Webb; Jennifer Tappan; Elanah Uretsky; Katherine Mason; et al. 2018. Data Sharing in Public Health Emergencies: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on Data Sharing during the 2014-2016 Ebola Epidemic and the 2016 Yellow Fever Epidemic. https://www.glopid-r.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/data-sharing-in-public-health-emergencies-yellow-fever-and-ebola.pdf.
  2. Varanda, Jorge; Azevedo, Joana. 2013. Report Saúde Móvel – Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Study HIV/AIDS SPSS Analysis, Médicos Do Mundo | Relatório Científico - Saúde Móvel – Estudo de Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Práticas VIH/SIDA, Médicos do Mundo.
  3. Varanda, Jorge. 2013. Final Project Report– “Recordando uma Doença Esquecida….”.
  4. Varanda, Jorge. 2011. Report on the fieldwork for the Testing of the Verbal Autopsy tool in DSS/CISA | Relatório Científico - Teste do Instrumento da Autópsia Verbal no CISA.
  5. Varanda, Jorge. 2011. Final Contract Report – Projecto CISA, Angola.
  6. Varanda, Jorge; Oliveira, Ana Maria; Moncloa, Assumpta Bou. 2010. Nutritional Enquiry in the Commune of Kicabo, Bengo Province, Angola | Relatório Científico - Inquérito Nutricional na Comuna do Kicabo, Província Bengo, Angola.
  7. Varanda, Jorge. 2010. Scientific Report - Protocolo para Implementação de Autópsias Verbal, CISA, Angola..

Other

Other output
  1. [Recensões]. 2015. Carvalho, José Carlos; Castro, José Acácio; Cunha, Jorge Teixeira da; Duarte, Alexandre Freire; Magalhães, Fernando Rosas; Paz, João; Varanda, Isabel. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/25042.
  2. Sistema de Autópsia Verbal - metodologia e procedimentos. Cadernos CISA Nª 4. 2014. Varanda, Jorge. http://www.cisacaxito.org/contents/bibliotecaitens/14652052129610.pdf.
  3. The value of health: a history of the Pan American Health Organization. 2010. Varanda,Jorge. http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0003-25732010000100013.
  4. Passagens para África: o povoamento de Angola e Moçambique com naturais da metrópole. 2009. Varanda,Jorge. http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0873-65612009000100014.
  5. Passagens para África: o povoamento de Angola e Moçambique com naturais da metrópole. 2009. Varanda,Jorge. http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0873-65612009000100014.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2017/04 “The other HIV - Guinea-Bissau and the initial epidemic spread of HIV-2” (invited speaker)
Tulane University2 (New Orleans, United States)
2017/04 “The Untold Story of HIV-2: Colonialism in Guinea Bissau and the Early Spread of the Epidemic (1950s-1990s)” (invited speaker)
Missouri State University (Springfield, Missouri, United States)
2017/04 “Strange Bedfellows: Colonialism and Anthropology in the study of the emergence of HIV-AIDS”
Missouri State University (Springfield, Missouri, United States)
2016/10 “Guinea-Bissau and the epidemic spread of HIV-2” (invited speaker)
Institute Pasteur- Paris (Paris, France)
2016/09 “Biomedicine, frontiers and the early spread of the HIV-1 AIDS in Lunda, Angola” Mobile medicines and cultural exchanges in Sub-Saharan Africa c. 1650–2000
African Studies Association (ASA-UK) (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2016/06 “The Anti-Sleeping Sickness Campaigns in Angola and the Global Heath Imaginary” VI Portuguese Anthropology Association Conference
Portuguese Anthropology Association (Coimbra, Portugal)
2016/05 “HIV-2 in Guinea-Bissau” (invited speaker) Histories Of HIVs - Social Contexts of the Emergence of HIV/AIDS
American Museum of Natural History (New York, United States)
2016/03 “A 'Origem' do(s) HIV(s)-SIDA e a História Social da Medicina na ex-África Portuguesa” (invited speaker) Ciclo de Seminários de História da Saúde e da Medicina
Instituto de História Contemporânea NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/10 “The emergence of HIVs - the under examined epidemics: HIV-2 in Guinea- Bissau and HIV-1 in Angola”, American Society Tropical Medicine Hygiene Symposium: The Political, Social Cultural and Biomedical History of the Emergence of HIV/AIDS in Africa
ASTMH (Philadelphia, United States)
2015/09 “Qualitative Lessons from the field - the anti-sleeping sickness campaigns and the implementation of verbal autopsy tool in Angola”, Panel - Locating anthropology in qualitative global health research MAGic2015: Anthropology and Global Health - interrogating theory, policy and practice
EASA (Sussex, United Kingdom)
2015/04 “Tripanosomiase Humana Africana em Angola: Programas coloniais, Acções e respostas populacionais contemporaneas e perspectivas futuras para a eliminação.” (invited speaker) III National Congress of Tropical Medicine
NOVA Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/04 “The HIV-2 in Guinea-Bissau – Life, health and liberation under the colonial yoke” (invited speaker) Workshop “An International Collaboration on the Political, Social, and Cultural History of the Emergence of HIV/AIDS.”
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2015/04 “The HIV-1 and Angola – A porous border and the mingling of HIV-subtypes” (invited speaker) Workshop “An International Collaboration on the Political, Social, and Cultural History of the Emergence of HIV/AIDS.”
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2015/01 "Tripanosomiase Humana Africana em Angola: Entre o colonialismo tardio e a pós-independência” Conferência Internacional: O Ano do Fim. O fim do império colonial português: causas, processos, legados
ICS-ULisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014/09 “The Impact of Parasitic Infections to the Communities: an anthropologist’s view” (invited speaker) Glyco Par 1st Training Workshop - Marie Curie Initial Training Network
Instituto de Medicina Molecular (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014 “Human African Trypanosomiasis in Angola- a bird's eye view of past, present programs, local responses and future prospects,” (invited speaker) Centre of African Studies Seminar Series
CAS - University Of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom)
2013/06 "Over a 100 years combating sleeping sickness in Angola” 5th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS)
Centro de Estudos Africanos - ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon, Portugal)
2013 “Social History of Human African Tripanosomiasis in Angola” (invited speaker) Livestream- http://www.livestream.com/fcglive/video?clipId=flv_fe072316-a432-4f6f-8612-16e3e34b45e8&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb (1h23min) Fighting NTDs in Portuguese-speaking African countries,
International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012/04 “Tripanossomíase Humana Africana - Programas de saúde coloniais e ‘globais’ em Angola” Encontro Comemorativo dos 110 anos do IHMT | Iº Encontro Luso-Brasileiro de História da Medicina Tropical
NOVA Institute of Hygiene and Topical Medicine (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012 “Políticas de Saúde e Processos de Avaliação” Colóquio Internacional em Metodologias de Pesquisa em Saúde
Universidade Federal Espirito Santo (Vitória, Brazil)
2012 “HIV-2” (invited speaker) Seminar - History of HIV Emergence in Africa: Unanswered Questions
Institut d'Etudes Avancées de Nantes (Nantes, France)
2012 “Health and Research in Africa” (invited speaker)
Augustana College (Moline, United States)
2012 “Health care programs and anthropology – the case of Sleeping Sickness programs” (invited speaker)
Augustana College (Moline, United States)
2011/11 “Tsetse flies, Sleeping Sickness and Health Programs in Colonial and Post-Independence Angola” African Studies Association Annual Meeting
African Studies Association (Washington, United States)
2011/06 “Medicine, a Double-Edged Sword: The Health Services of the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang) and the Politics of the Empire, 1950s-1975” The End of the Portuguese Empire in a Comparative Perspective
ICS-ULisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2010/05 “Science and the organisation of the territory: Tsetse flies, Africans and the Colonial Process” Thinking with Insects: Entomological Reflections on History, Medicine and Politics
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) (London, United Kingdom)
2010/01 “Recalling a Neglected Disease – An Historical-Anthropological view of Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) in Angola, ca. 1900s–present” (invited speaker) Work-in-Progress Seminar Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
University College of London (London, United Kingdom)
2010/01 “Anti-Sleeping Sickness (Human African Trypanosomiasis - HAT) programs in Angola, an Anthropological perspective” (invited speaker) UCL Class - Master in Global Health
Anthropology Centre for International Health and Development - UCL (London, United Kingdom)
2009/09 “The complexity of Practice - Recruitment, Weight and measures in the Diamond Company Angola” IV Portuguese Anthropology Association Conference
APA (Lisbon, Portugal)
2009/08 “Research Project - Design, Methodologies and Writing-up" (invited speaker) Course of Sociology of Health
ISCED – University Agostinho Neto (Luanda, Angola)
2009/04 “The Fluid Empire and the Fractured 'Colonial Medicine': the Health Service of Diamond Company of Angola” Fracturing Colonial Medicine
Glasgow Caledonian University (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)
2008/11 “Towards a New Imperial Jigsaw: The Diamond Company of Angola (Diamang) and Inter-Colonial Health Exchanges, 1917-75” Annual Conference of the African Studies Association (ASA)
African Studies Association (ASA) (Chicago, United States)
2008/11 "Contentious Health Strategies: African Labourers and Medical Services Staff on the Diamond Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917-1975" (invited speaker) African Studies Program
University of Iowa (Iowa, United States)
2008/09 “Putting Together the Pieces: Opening and Following the Path of the Health Services of Diamang ca. 1920-75" Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective
St. Anne’s College (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2007/07 “Sons and Stepsons of the Diamond Company of Angola (Diamang) – The Health politics and practices of the Health Services of Diamang” (invited speaker) II Meeting of History of Natural Sciences and Health
Culturgest (Lisbon, Portugal)
2007/06 “New Visions of the Third Portuguese Empire: The practices of the health services of Diamang, ca.1920-1975” Research Seminar of CEAS
Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Social (Lisbon, Portugal)
2006/03 “New Visions of the Empire: Prophylaxis Campaigns Against the Sleeping Sickness” (invited speaker) The Other Side of the Empire – Science, Technology in the Colonies
FCT NOVA (Almada, Portugal)
2006 “Medical Science and diamonds in XXth century Angola- Diamang the key part for a new Imperial Jigsaw” Colonial Medicine, Imperial structures and post-colonial lives in Portuguese
ICS-ULisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2005/03 “Diamonds and Science in the 20th Century Portuguese Empire: A Company in a Subaltern Empire as Re-shaper of Knowledge Relations” Local and Global Knowledge Systems
University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2004/08 “Occupational Health, Workers Fitness and Cheap Diamonds” 4S/EASST Conference: Public Proofs, Science, Technology and Democracy
Society for the Social Studies of Science / European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (Paris, France)
2004 “The Brave New World of Diamang” (invited speaker) 1st Arrábida Meetings of History of Natural Science and Health
Fundação Oriente / Convento da Arrábida (Arrábida, Portugal)
2002/11 “Very Good – Very Weak, an Indigenous Scaling: When Medicine Organised Labour” American Anthropologist Association Annual Meeting
American Anthropologist Association (New Orleans, United States)
2002 “ ‘The Brave New World’ of Diamang: Science in the Angolan Colonial Context” (invited speaker) Saberes médicos e práticas terapêuticas: Brasil e Portugal
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019 - 2019 Mal incontrolável? As políticas de controlo da malária dos Serviços de Saúde da Diamang na circunscrição do Chitato (Província de Lunda Norte) entre 1917 e 1975
Supervisor
 Antropologia Médica e Saúde Global (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Dengue-Fatores Endemicos e Sociais
Supervisor
 Desenvolvimento e Saúde Global (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2014 - 2014 O papel de uma Comunidade Terapêutica Religiosa na gestão para usuários de drogas na região de Grande Vitória
Supervisor
 Antropologia Médica (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2010 - Current Organizer of Conference - “Health and Cooperation, Between Research and the Field”, Project-PTDC/AFR/100646/2008, IHMT, CRIA; Plataforma ONGD, Lisbon. (2010)
Conference
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Plataforma Portuguesa das Organizações Não-Governamentais para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2016/06/01 - 2016/06/04 Local Commission of University of Coimbra - VI Portuguese Anthropology Association Conference (2016/06/01 - 2016/06/04)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
2016/06/01 - 2016/06/04 Organizer of panel - “Anthropology and Global Health”, VI Portuguese Anthropology Association Conference, Coimbra (2016/06/01 - 2016/06/04)
Congress
 Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
2015/04 - 2015/04 Organizer of Conference - “The Political, Social, and Cultural History of the Emergence of HIV/AIDS”, International Project “An International Collaboration on the Political, Social, and Cultural History of the Emergence of HIV/AIDS.”, N.E.H. Grant No. RZ5152313, Coimbra, Portugal (2015/04 - 2015/04)
Conference
 Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, United States

Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2013/06 - 2013/06 Organizer of Seminar – Prof. Emeritus Murray Last, “Dying on time: cultures of death and time in Muslim northern Nigeria” (2013/06 - 2013/06)
Seminar
 Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2013/05 - 2013/05 Organizer of Seminar – Prof. Marx Preston, “New emerging HIV-2 strains in West Africa derived from indigenous sooty mangabey monkeys” (2013/05 - 2013/05)
Seminar
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
2013/05 - 2013/05 Organizer of Seminar - Prof. Marx Preston, “The Origin of HIV-2 - New emerging HIV-2 strains in West Africa derived from indigenous sooty mangabey monkeys” (2013/05 - 2013/05)
Seminar
 Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2010/09/09 - 2010/09/11 Co-organiser of panel - “Continuities and ruptures in the study of African contexts: a place for the history of the present”, 7th Iberian Congress of African Studies, Lisbon. (2010/09/09 - 2010/09/11)
Congress
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2016/09 - 2016/09 Discussant - Panel “Mobile medicines and cultural exchanges in Sub-Saharan Africa, c. 1650–2000”, Chair: Markku Hokkanen (University of Oulu), ASA-UK, Cambridge
Round table
African Studies Association of the UK, United Kingdom
2016/06 - 2016/06 Discussant - Panel "Anthropology and Global Heath"
Congress
 VI Portuguese Anthropology Association Conference
Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013 - 2013 II European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) HIV-AIDS Meeting, (European Union), Lisbon, Portugal
Meeting
European Union, Belgium
2013 - 2013 Speaker at "'Understanding' Angola, Agostinho Neto and his poetry”, Consulate of Angola, Oporto, Portugal.
2012 - 2012 Discussant - Panel "Práticas Corporais e Sistema Único de Saúde”
Congress
 Colóquio Internacional em Metodologias de Pesquisa em Saúde
Universidade Federal de Espirito Santo, Brazil
2010 - 2010 Discussant - Panel “Continuities and ruptures in the study of African contexts: a place for the history of the present”
Congress
 7th Iberian Congress of African Studies
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2013 - 2016 Scientific Board - Revista Antropologia Portuguesa, Portugal
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2017/10/29 Interview to the national newspaper Observador: “Diamang. 100 anos da maior empresa do império”, by Maria José Oliveira, Portugal Observador
2016/09/27 Interview to the national weekly newspaper Expresso: "Sida Chegou a Angola muito antes de ser indentificada”, by Christiana Martins, Portugal Expresso
2015/10/26 Interview to Arkansas Newswire Headlines: "Portuguese Scholar to Discuss Public Health in Africa", USA

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2015/09/28 - 2015/09/28 Guest on RTP Radio Show CIENTIFICA MENTE: "Jorge Varanda fala de Auto´psia Verbal", by Ana Paula Gomes, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2011 - Current Análise Social (2182-2999) Instituto de Ciencias Sociais
2011 - Current Cadernos de Estudos Africanos (2182-7400) OpenEdition
2011 - Current Health Policy and Planning (1460-2237) Oxford University Press
2011 - Current Global Public Health (1744-1706) Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2011 - Current Revista Afro-Ásia (0002-0591) Centro de Estudos Afro Orientais - Universidade Federal da Bahia