SUMMARY: Postdoc at Universidade de São Paulo (USP), with PhD and Masters degree in Collective Health from FIOCRUZ (IFF). Social Scientist from UERJ (Rio de Janeiro State University)
Dr. Pamella Liz Pereira is a social scientist from Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) with PHD and MA in Collective Health from FIOCRUZ/RJ. She is now Post doc at Public Health Faculty of São Paulo University - USP, funded by FAPESP. Advisor: Professor Dra. Deisy Ventura
In 2022, she stared her current research about the community's response to the Covid19 pandemic in a favela in São Paulo, as post doc fellow in the project - Social mobilization as policymaking lever? A Trans-Atlantic Covid-19 dialogue on community action and decentralized governance -, that explores how social mobilization serves as a policymaking lever for community input and demands on policymaking. That group of researchers examines the interaction between community mobilization and decentralized governance during the COVID-19 pandemic in diverse trans-Atlantic settings within Brazil, Canada, Germany, and Peru.
In 2020 She visited the Rutger's Global Urban Studies Program as a PhD candidate. In 2021, after finish her PHD, she was Fiocruz Post doc fellow at Epidemic Ethics, an Oxford's bioetics group, - led by World Health Organization - researching about COVID19 children vaccination in Brazil.
Pamella has a strong experience with community based fieldwork related to public health, gender, race, and political subjectivity issues. Her perspective is grounded in her public health and social sciences background
Sou Cientista Social e Sanitarista, e atualmente realizo estágio de pós-doutorado na Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo (FSP-USP), com bolsa FAPESP, onde atuo no projeto internacional "Social mobilization as policymaking lever"? A Trans-Atlantic Covid-19 dialogue on community action and decentralized governance", conduzido simultaneamente no Brasil, Canadá, Alemanha e Peru. Meus estudos analisam as representações midiáticas e científicas, e as histórias de vida de pessoas e grupos em situação de precariedade e vulnerabilidade, sob a perspectiva dos estudos de gênero, raça, classe e saúde coletiva. Em 2020, fui assistente de pesquisa no Global Urban Studies Program, durante o meu doutorado sanduíche na Rutgers University (NJ-EUA), e em 2021 fui pos-doc fellow no grupo Epidemic Ethics (Oxford University), liderado pela Organização Mundial da Saúde.