Graduate course in Collective Health

The Graduate Program in Public Health at Unicamp aims to train quality researchers at the level of Master and Doctor. Collective Health is a scientific field that contributes to the study of the process of health-disease-care as a social process in various groups and populations, concerned with geographical, historical and social distribution, and with the ways in which each society sets its demands on health and is organized to meet their needs in this field.

Being an interdisciplinary field par excellence, Collective Health has developed from the structuring of three main disciplinary areas: epidemiology, social sciences and health planning and management. Reflecting this interdisciplinary tradition, our program is multidisciplinary and uses qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches.

Our current major areas are: Epidemiology; Policy, Planning and Management; and Social Sciences in Health reflect the specificity of disciplinary axes and provide in-depth and specialized study without losing the thematic connection area. To ensure the cohesion of the field as a whole there are basic core subjects common to all areas of concentration, seeking to ensure basic competence in public health as a whole.

The program has been characterized by great exchange with health services, agencies and national and international universities. It has attracted researchers of national and Latin American universities as well as the Brazilian Unified Health System and its complementary areas. As a result, its performance has been marked by productive partnerships with other institutions of the internal academic environment at Unicamp, Universities and Research Institutes of Brazilian state and federal universities as well as abroad. 

Its target audience is top-level professionals working with the Health Sciences interface on Public Health, and its duration is 12 to 24 months for the Master's degree and 24-48 months for the Doctorate degree. The major demand of recent years is systematically assessed through a selection process and the criteria for obtaining scholarships are meritocratic, stimulating the engagement and full dedication of our students.

We are proud to see this reflected in our graduates: we have awarded 20% of doctorate degrees in public health during a five-year period (2004-2008) and many of these former students now play highly important roles in the Brazilian Unified Health System, Public Universities and abroad contributing to the development of science in the country and the region.

Research Topics

Major area:  Social Sciences in the Health field

RESEARCH TOPIC:  SOCIAL HISTORICAL CULTURAL FUNDAMENTALS IN HEALTH

 

Advisors:

- Everardo Duarte Nunes - evernunes@uol.com.br

- Nelson Filice de Barros - nelfel@uol.com.br

- Juliana Luporini do Nascimento - luporini@fcm.unicamp.br

- Juan Carlos Aneiros Fernandez - juancaf@fcm.unicamp.br

Projects:

- History and Collective Health

- The Sociology of Professions

RESEARCH TOPIC: INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS AND PRACTICES IN HEALTH

Advisors:

- Solange L'Abbate - slabbate@lexxa.com.br

RESEARCH TOPIC: CULTURE: HEALTH, DISEASES, CARE

Advisors:

- Ana Maria Canesqui - anacanesqui@uol.com.br

RESEARCH TOPIC: ALTERNATIVE, COMPLEMENTARY AND INTEGRATIVE PRACTICES IN HEALTH (PACIS)

Advisors:

- Nelson Filice de Barros - nelfel@uol.com.br

- Pamela Siegel - pam@mpcnet.com.br

Projects:

Systematic review of literature

- PACIS and Chronic health conditions

- PACIS, teaching and professionalization

- PACIS e APS

Major area:  Policy, Planning and Health Management

RESEARCH TOPIC: COLLECTIVE HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH

Advisors:

- Rosana Teresa Onocko Campos - rosanaoc@mpc.com.br

- Erotildes Maria Leal - erotildesleal@cremerj.com.br

Projects:

- Autonomous medication management

- Evaluative studies on services and mental health networks

- Studies on the mental illness experience

RESEARCH TOPIC: PAIDEIA METHOD AND CO-MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES, SUPPORT AND ENLARGED AND SHARED CLINIC

Advisors:

- Gastão Wagner de Sousa Campos - gastaowagner@mpc.com.br

- Gustavo Tenório Cunha - gustavotc9000@gmail.com

RESEARCH TOPIC: POLICIES OF SUBJECTIVITY AND COLLECTIVE HEALTH: CONEXIONS

Advisors:

- Sergio Resende Carvalho - 2srcarvalho@gmail.com

Projects:

- Subjectivity and power: theoretical backgounds to think and produce health

- Clinic at its limits; the limits of the clinic: the challenge of caring in health

- Inter-inventions: practices and power production devices in collectives

RESEARCH TOPIC: POLICIES IN HEALTH MANAGEMENT: PRACTICES SYSTEMS, NETWORKS AND ORGANIZATION

Advisors:

- Maria da Graça Garcia Andrade -mgraa@fcm.unicamp.br

- Silvia Maria Santiago - santiago@fcm.unicamp.br

- Carlos Roberto Silveira Correa - ccorrea@fcm.unicamp.br 

- Aparecida Mari Iguti - iguti@unicamp.br

Projects:

- Comprehensive care management in health networks, in particular regarding the cancer patient

- Therapeutic Itineraries users in health care networks.

- Quality of life of cancer patients

- The Primary Health Care as a strategy for (reconfiguration of the national health policies and building networks: professional perspective and users

- Regulation of access to care in health networks.

Major area: Epidemiology

RESEARCH TOPIC: LIVING CONDITIONS AND HEALTH/SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN HEALTH

Advisors:

- Marilisa Berti de Azevedo Barros - marilisa@unicamp.br

- Priscila Maria Stolses Bergamo Francisco - primaria@fcm.unicamp.br

- Leticia Marin Leon - leticia@fcm.unicamp.br

- Carlos Roberto Silveira Correa - ccorrea@fcm.unicamp.br

- Silvia Maria Santiago - santiago@fcm.unicamp.br

- Maria da Graça Garcia Andrade - mgraa@fcm.unicamp.br 

- Ana Maria Segall Correa -amsegall@uol.com.br 

Projects:

- Monitoring of mortality: profiles studies, trends and spatial distributions.

- Service profile studies in urgent and emergency services (VIVA Campinas)

- Social inequalities in health

- Living Conditions and Health

- Comprehensive Health Care for Women in Prison: the organization of Care in the Women's Penitentiary of Campinas/SP.

RESEARCH TOPIC: EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Advisors:

- Maria Rita Donalísio Cordeiro - donalisi@fcm.unicamp.br

- Carlos Roberto Silveira Correa - ccorrea@fcm.unicamp.br

- Ricardo Carlos Cordeiro - ricacordeiro@gmail.com

- Priscila Maria Stolses Bergamo Francisco - primaria@fcm.unicamp.br

Projects:

- Epidemiology of Zoonosis: environmental and ecological aspects

- Epidemiology of respiratory transmitted diseases: meningococcal disease, influenza and vaccination.

- Epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS

RESEARCH TOPIC: POPULATION SURVEYS IN HEALTH

Advisors:

- Marilisa Berti de Azevedo Barros - marilisa@unicamp.br

- Priscila Maria Stolses Bergamo Francisco - primaria@fcm.unicamp.br

- Leticia Marin Leon - leticia@fcm.unicamp.br 

- Margareth Guimarães Lima - magarethglima@gmail.com

 Projects:

- Epidemiology of health behaviors and risk factors

- Studies on the use of medication

- Self-rated health, health quality of life and morbidity

- Survey comparison. Trend analysis.

RESEARCH TOPIC: EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CHRONIC DISEASES

Advisors:

- Carlos Roberto Silveira Correa - ccorrea@fcm.unicamp.br

- Ricardo Carlos Cordeiro - ricacordeiro@gmail.com

- Celso Stephan - celso.stephan@gmail.com

Projects:

- Population-based cancer studies

- Epidemiology of degenerative diseases

RESEARCH TOPIC: SPATIAL ANALYSIS IN HEALTH

Advisors:

- Ricardo Carlos Cordeiro - ricacordeiro@gmail.com

- Maria Rita Donalisio Cordeiro - donalisi@fcm.unicamp.br

- Celso Stephan - celso.stephan@gmail.com

Projects:

- Development of spatial risk analysis techniques

- Spatial distribution of infectious diseases

- Geographical distribution of diseases related to work

RESEARCH TOPIC: HEALTH, WORK AND ENVIRONMENT

Advisors:

- Herling Gregorio Aguilar Alonzo - alonzo@fcm.unicamp.br

- Sergio Roberto de Lucca - slucca@fcm.unicamp.br

- Ericson Bagatin - ebagatin@fcm.unicamp.br

- Valmir Antonio Zulian de Azevedo - valmir@fcm.unicamp.br

- Aparecida Mari Iguti - iguti@fcm.unicamp.br

- Heleno Rodrigues Correa Filho – helenocorrea@uol.com.br

- Eduardo Melo de Capitani - capitani@fcm.unicamp.br

 Projects:

- Attention Evaluation of informal health workers in the UHS in Campinas.

- Epidemiology of injuries in workers' health - assessment of the working conditions and risk factors

- Epidemiology and Public Policy on Occupational Health

- Environmental health: exposure and effects of environmental contaminants on human health

- Health Surveillance in the Health System