Dr Eliana Lacerda (nee Mattos Lacerda)MD MSc PhD

Research Fellow Research manager

 

I had trained as a physician in Brazil and specialized as public health and occupational health doctor. Since then, I have experienced extensive clinical and public health work overseas, before returning to the academic setting. My clinical experiences were focused mainly on medical care to deprived communities and on occupational health care to workers from the three economic sectors (from agro-workers and miners to white-collars). I have worked as a public health doctor at local, regional and state levels of the Brazilian National Health System, assuming managerial positions for delivering health care, and at epidemiological services. I have also been involved in developing information systems for decision-making in public health, and in managing a World Bank project component addressing the re-equipment of health care units in Pernambuco State (Brazil). Additionally, I had worked as a consultant in the third sector, which provided me insightful experiences into the articulation of diverse sectors of society for addressing current collective challenges.

Affiliation

Teaching

I have previously thought public health and occupational healht for medical undergraduates, and occupational health for medical residents. Since 2007, I have been tutoring epidemiology in the DL MSc at the LSHTM, and since 2009 I have also been teaching epidemiology in the Faculty of Medicine of the UNIVASF (Brazil), as a volunteer associate lecturer, for undergraduates and MSc students.

Research

 

My academic research was initially focused on the epidemiology of occupational diseases, planning and evaluation of health services, and developing information system for decision making in health policies. Later, I have focused on the study of RSI (repetitive strain injuries) in bank workers, combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies into a participatory approach to my research. I also applied this approach while researching a community of shellfish harvester women in Northeast Brazil, during my my PhD course. Currently, I am involved on the research of myalgic enchephalomyilites/chronic fatigue syndrome, where the participatory approach have also been used, in the diverse studies developed by the research team.      

Research areas

  • Environment
  • Health inequalities
  • Occupational health
  • Public health
  • Water

Disciplines

  • Epidemiology
  • Medicine

Disease and Health Conditions

  • Chronic disease

Regions

  • European Union
  • Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)

Countries

  • Brazil
  • Latvia
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

Other interests

  • Bioethics
  • social justice
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