Coordinator of the Biodiversity & Wild Health Institutional PlatformOswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)
I began my career studying the parasites of wild animals and prehistoric men in the Serra da Capivara National Park, a World Cultural Heritage Site, which in the last 9 thousand years was transformed due to climate change into a semi-arid ecosystem - the Brazilian Caatinga. The transformation of this scenario teaches us how environmental and climate changes modulate the emergence of new zoonoses and from there I had the opportunity to propose and develop the Wild Health Information System Platform (SISS-Geo).
Now I coordinate the SISS-Geo Platform, which in partnership with the Brazilian Health System and society. We seek the participation of all people in the different Brazilian biomes. So, real-time alerts can assist investigation in the field and provides quality data for the development of sophisticated prediction models that contribute to prevention and control actions, such as the scheduled vaccination of people and the participatory surveillance of zoonoses in Brazil.