Name: Fernando Celso Lopes Fernandes de Barros
E-mail: fcbarros.epi@gmail.com
MD (Catholic University of Pelotas, RS, Brazil), Master’s in Maternal and Child Health (Institute of Child Health, University of London, UK), PhD in Epidemiology (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)
University graduate:Medicine. Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil, 1970.
Master:Maternal and Child Health. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, 1980. “The Road-to- health chart in Barbados, West Indies”.
Advisor: David Morley.
Doctorate
Epidemiology. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, 1985. “The epidemiology of perinatal health in Southern Brazil: a study of
perinatal mortality, low birth weight and the utilisation of health care”. Advisor: Patrick Vaughan.
Themes of interest:
Breastfeeding
Inequalities and inequities in health
Epidemiology of Life Cycle
Maternal and Child Health
