Congratulations on receiving the Population Health Metrics Early Career Researcher Reviewer Award! We appreciate your commitment to reviewing for Population Health Metrics. Were you pleased to accept the award?
I was very pleased and honored to accept the award. Peer review is essential to the quality and credibility of scientific publishing, yet reviewers’ contributions are not often publicly recognized. This kind of acknowledgment is especially meaningful today, when the scientific ecosystem also faces the growth of predatory outlets that publish without rigorous peer review.
Please tell us about yourself and your research.
I am an epidemiologist. I began my career working on injuries and accidents, then expanded to violence prevention and surveillance, and later to non-communicable diseases and other noncommunicable conditions, including the broader field of “DANT” in Brazil, which encompasses violence, accidents, and chronic noncommunicable diseases. While this remains my main focus, I also have publications in other areas of public health.
I worked in the surveillance of DANT at the Brazilian Ministry of Health and later worked directly with the Minister of Health supporting high-level decision-making. Today, I work at Fiocruz (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), one of Brazil’s leading public health and biomedical research institutions. Fiocruz is a national reference center that conducts research, supports health surveillance and policy, provides education and training, and contributes to innovation and public health responses in Brazil and internationally.
Do you find it beneficial reviewing manuscripts for Population Health Metrics?
Yes, I find it very beneficial. Peer review is fundamental to maintaining scientific quality, and contributing to this process is professionally meaningful. For me personally, reviewing also brings important learning gains: it keeps me up to date with new research and methods, strengthens my critical appraisal skills, supports my academic trajectory, and helps build a valuable professional network through interactions with the journal and the broader scientific community.
Thank you again for your contributions to the journal. Where can people find out more about your research?
People can find more information about my work through my Google Scholar profile and my Lattes CV. Google Scholar provides a public list of my publications and citations. The Lattes Platform is Brazil’s national academic CV database, maintained by CNPq (the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development), and it is widely used in Brazil to document researchers’ academic and professional trajectories, including publications, grants, teaching, and service activities.