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Edna Maria de Araújo

Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS)

Nurse, PhD in Public Health from the Institute of Public Health of the Federal University of Bahia (2007). Sandwich internship (2006) and Post Doctorate (2013) at the Public Health School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - USA (UNC) with a scholarship funded by CAPES. Full Professor at the UEFS Health Department and permanent professor at the Postgraduate Program in Public Health at the State University of Feira de Santana (PPGSC / UEFS). She is responsible for the international cooperation agreement between the University of Cape-South Africa and UEFS. Research lines: Health of specific population groups: Epidemiology of Social Inequalities in Health (race, gender and class), Health of the Black Population, Health of Vulnerable Groups; Violence and Health. Affiliate and one of the coordinators of the WG Racism and Health of the Brazilian Association of Public Health (ABRASCO). Member of the ABRASCO Deliberative Council for the 2018-2021 management. Affiliated to the Brazilian Association of Black Researchers (ABPN)

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology, State University of Feira de Santana (Brazil)

Education

  • 1983 
    State University of Feira de Santana, Public Health/Epidemiology