Professor of Epidemiology University of Goias (UFG)/Brazil
Cristiana is an Infectious Disease Medical Doctor trained as a field epidemiologist at the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). After working as an adviser for the Brazilian Ministry of Health on Public Health research, she rejoined CDC as an epidemiologist working with the Global Immunization Program, when she was detailed to the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) and later to the World Health Organization (WHO) for a decade. Cristiana holds a Ph.D. in Epidemiology, post-doctoral training in Health Technology Assessment, and a Post graduate certificate in Health Economics. Since 2010, Cristiana is a professor of epidemiology at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG)/Brazil, where she is the head of the Department of Collective Health. Her main areas of research are epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases and economic evaluation of public health interventions. She is a member of two WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) working groups – on COVID-19 and pneumococcal vaccines, and also a member of PAHO's Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on immunization. She is currently working in COVID-19 modelling, COVID-19 burden, and impact of COVID-19 vaccination in Brazil where she sits in COVID-19 emergency operations committees at both municipal and state levels, being an advisor to the State governor on public health interventions to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic. She is also involved in research projects to evaluate the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in selected countries in the American Region. She has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers, several book chapters, and presented over 150 abstracts in international conferences.
