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Graduate Student, Institute of Population Health

About

Mirella Veras is currently a PhD candidate in Population Health at the University of Ottawa.  Formerly, she holds a Master’s degree in Public Health (concentration in epidemiology) from the Federal University of Ceara, Brazil. Also, she has training in a multi-disciplinary residency program in family health at the State University of Vale do Acarau in Sobral, Brazil,  and has specialized training in Activation processes of change in higher education for health professionals from the National School of Public Health  ENSP/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

She has worked in primary health care in Brazil for eight years, including as a consultant of the Pan American Health Organization in the Department of Primary Care/Ministry of Health, Brazil. Additionally, she worked as a professor at the Medical School at Federal University of Ceara, Brazil.  In Primary Health Care, she worked at the local and federal level.  At the local level, Mirella was responsible for a project in Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) in the Primary Health Care program.  She was the manager of the decentralized health area as well  as the coordinator for The Nuclei of Integral Attention in Family Health Program. At the federal Level, she was directly involved in research projects in the primary health care field and performed epidemiological analyses of the efficiency of the Family Health Strategy.

Her current research project at the PhD program involves Global Health Education. Mirella’s major research interests include Global health, health Equity, knowledge translation, primary health care,  Global health education and health policy.