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Adriana Miranda de Castro

Pós-graduação em Saúde da Criança e da Mulher (Public Health Program - Msc and PhD, focus on Childhood and Women Health) · Fundação Oswaldo Cruz

https://researchid.co/drikamcastro
@iff.fiocruz.br
6Scopus Publications

Biography

She worked as a technical consultant for the Ministry of Health from 2003 to 2009 for the National Health Promotion Policy and was in Federal Hospitals in Rio de Janeiro and in the Hospital Management Department/Ministry of Health between 2009-2012. Currently, she is an employee of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. From 2021 to 2025, she was the Health Promotion Coordinator for the Vice-Presidency of Environment, Care and Health Promotion (VPAAPS/Fiocruz). Since 2023, she has coordinated the Multiprofessional Specialization iin Health Promotion. In January 2025, she assumed the Coordination of the Postgraduate Program in Child and Women's Health (Public Health) at IFF/Fiocruz and, from September onwards, the Coordination of the Institute's Education Area. She is a member of the Social Sciences and Humanities in Health Commission of Abrasco, representing the PPGSCM/IFF/Fiocruz, the Collaborative Network of Healthy and Sustainable Municipalities, Cities, Communities and Territories (RCMCCTSS)

Education

Doctor of Public Health (IFF/Fiocruz), Master in Psychology (UFF), specialist in Clinical-Institutional Psychology (HUPE/UERJ) and psychologist (UERJ). She develops her professional career in the field of Public Health, with an emphasis on Public Health Policies, Processes of Care Production in Health, Management and Education at Work. Her main thematic and analytical areas of interest are: production of subjectivities, technologies of power, gender relations, racism and whiteness, aging, medicalization of life, health promotion and institutional analysis.

Recent Scopus Publications

  1. Convergences between promotion of health, public health education, educommunication and health literacy
    Ciencia E Saude Coletiva, 2025
  2. Acknowledging racism to build comprehensive, equitable and universal care effectively
    Ciencia E Saude Coletiva, 2023
  3. Subjective effects of racism and care: lives and memories of black women
    Ciencia E Saude Coletiva, 2023
  4. TALKING TO JOVELINAS, IVONES AND BETHS: HEALTH AND AGING IN SAMBA'S WORLD
    Psicologia E Sociedade, 2021
  5. National Health Promotion Policy (PNPS): Chapters of a journey still under construction
    Ciencia E Saude Coletiva, 2016

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