Brazil-based Postdoctoral Research Fellows

As a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, when international travel and exchange was stalled but the need for research collaboration continued, the DRCLAS Brazil Office and Brazil Studies Program developed a Postdoctoral Research Fellow model in which Harvard faculty advisors work virtually with Postdocs based in Brazil. The Harvard faculty members and Postdocs typically conduct research in collaboration with local research teams, utilizing data, material or specimens collected directly from Brazil. DRCLAS’s Brazil-based Postdoctoral Research Fellows are: 

Eduardo Lazzari 
2021-2023 
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Along with the Graduate Program in Public Administration and Government of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Eduardo is conducting research on the socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Brazil's most vulnerable populations through the usage of household data and causal techniques to analyze employment, income, and public health rates. 

Marco Antonio Catussi Paschoalotto
2021-2022 
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Marco's research, conducted with the Graduate Program in Public Administration and Government of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, analyzes i) the impacts brought by the COVID-19 pandemic on health systems resilience and, ii) a possible framework and your components to the Brazilian Health System (SUS - Sistema Único de Saúde). 

Bruna Larissa Seibel 
2021-2022 
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Developed in collaboration with the Brazilian Center for Early Childhood Development, hosted at Insper, Bruna’s research reviews the main cohort studies that have been conducted in Brazil on child development to understand limitations and anticipate possible obstacles to better develop public policies to reduce inequalities in the field. 

Juliana Araujo Teixeira 
2021-2022 
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Juliana’s research, also developed in partnership with the Brazilian Center for Early Childhood Development at Insper, includes the evaluation of an intervention focused on the use of the Child's Handbook to monitor child development, aiming to inform health professionals of the importance of using and completing child developmental milestones. 

João Filipe Riva Tonini 
2021-2022
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João's research focuses on the conservation and biodiversity assessment of birds from the Chaco, Cerrado, and Caatinga biomes in Brazil, seeking to generate projections of the geographic distribution of these species in future climatic conditions under an optimistic and a pessimistic scenario of climate change to quantify spatial changes. In addition, he has been studying butterflies from the families Lycaenidae and Riodinidae that occur worldwide to understand the drivers of a unique transition in feeding mode from phytophagy to carnivory. 

Miquéias Ferrão da Silva Junior 
2021-2022 
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Miquéias’s research focuses on the discovery and description of new species of anurans from the Brazilian Amazon through integrative taxonomy, aiming to facilitate conservation policies in the region planned by the Brazilian government. 

Simone Farias Antunez 
2021-2022 
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Simone has worked alongside the Federal University of Ceará Department of Collective Health on the cohort study “Iracema COVID”, which analyses the impact of COVID-19 on maternal child health during the period of social isolation in the pandemic. Simone takes the lead on breastfeeding practices pre- and during-COVID-19 in Fortaleza. 

Fernando Fernandes 
2021-2022
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Fernando’s research investigates the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on other underlying causes of death in Brazil in 2020 and 2021. It estimates the contributions of deaths from COVID-19 (direct effect) and deaths from other causes (indirect effects) to the annual change in life expectancy at birth from 2017 to 2021. Marcia Castro - from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - and Cássio Turra - from Cedeplar at the Federal University of Minas Gerais - are Fernando's research advisors. 

Janaína Teodoro 
2021-2022 
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Together with the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Janaina’s project develops analyses on the persistence and deepening of education inequalities based on the construction of an original school quality indicator and longitudinal analyses. 

Shamyr Sulyvan de Castro 
2022-2023
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Along with the Federal University of Ceará Department of Collective Health, Shamyr has been working with the “Iracema-COVID” cohort study, participating actively on an elaborated follow-up of the impact of COVID-19 on maternal and child health affected by the period of social isolation in the pandemic.