Improving Response to Malaria Outbreaks in Amazon-Basin Countries (MEWS)
Description of the project: Malaria is a vector borne disease causing an estimated 219 million infections and 435,000 deaths annually. Since 2011, no other region in the world has experienced a larger increase in malaria cases than the Amazon. Human mobility, including permanent residential change and temporary movements (travel, labor, schooling, etc.), is an enigma for human health globally. In the Amazon, population mobility has been associated with a number of adverse effects, including deforestation, urbanization, vector-borne disease risk, and child mortality. Rural-rural migration is particularly devastating as increasing population density and policies preventing land ownership induces further settlement into forested areas and has been associated with a phenomenon called frontier malaria. Labor migration, which is temporary and consists of both long- and short-term migration (i.e., daily to annually), is a strategy to diversify risk through cash income and is regularly practiced by rural families. This type of migration is a major cause of malaria transmission, yet few studies have quantified the proportion of transmission attributable to human movement. Understanding the mechanism through which migration maintains malaria endemic or epidemic levels is imperative for control programs. Whether the malaria-migration link is related to frontier malaria, following political unrest, as is believed to be occurring due to Venezuelan migration, or simply from migratory labor (internally or internationally), each malaria-migration context may require different control strategies and target populations. Unfortunately, the ability to obtain migration data in Amazon-basin countries is currently not possible. Cell phone networks and data are unreliable, and residents of South American countries can freely cross each other’s borders with just a national ID thanks to free movement rights. A promising method to describe human movement patterns is by characterizing structure of community networks, which have been shown to influence migration decision making.Families living in remote areas of the Amazon do not have access to banks, have few incentives for technology adoption, and have limited opportunities for educational advancement. To obtain a livelihood, individuals (and families) attempt to minimize risk via diversification and investment into assets (vs. savings), leading to increased labor migration. As connectivity between households and external communities strengthen, economic and health outcomes between communities tend to be correlated. Thus, vulnerability to infectious disease tends to be dependent on measurable covariates at the community level and strength of social ties. This is consistent with literature from other regions that find patterns of community settlement and development as key factors in estimating vulnerability to disease.
Participants: William Pan - PI (Duke University), Alisson F. Barbieri (UFMG), Gilvan R. Guedes (UFMG), Mark Janko (Duke University), Annika Gunderson (UNC), Benjamin Zaitchik (Johns Hopkins University), Francesco Pizzitutti (Sapienza Università di Roma), Carlos Mena (USFQ), Willy Lescano (UPCH), Gabriela Mulanovich (PUC Peru).
Duration: 2021 to 2026.
Funding: RO1 - National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The Economic Cost of Malaria in Brazil
Description of the project: This study will develop a comprehensive methodology to estimate the economic cost of malaria in Brazil, with estimates computed by state and type of parasite. Studies that break down the cost considering the agents involved, regional inequalities, productivity losses, and non-tangible costs are scarce in Brazil. Administrative information, household surveys in municipalities in the Amazon, and interviews with local managers will be used to map costs. A platform that allows the calculation of economic costs and helps in the formulation of malaria control policies will be developed.
Participants: Monica Viegas - PI (UFMG), Marcia Castro (Harvard University), Kenya Noronha (UFMG), Gilvan R. Guedes (UFMG), Bernardo Diniz (UFMG), Julia Calazans (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), Lucas Resende (UFMG), Cassio Peterka (Brazilian Ministry of Health).
Duration: 2021 to 2023.
Funding: Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation & CNPq.
Linking Environmental and Disease Surveillance in Brazil (LEADS-Brazil)
Description of the project: We propose to develop stakeholder-informed climate-health visualization tools using a customized Amazon Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS), evaluate real-time curation of climate and health data, and conduct capacity training for implementation and adoption of Malaria Early Warning (MEWS) tools in Brazil. Since 2011, no other region in the world has experienced a larger increase in malaria than the Amazon due to several overlapping events: withdrawal of the Global Fund from parts of South America; strong El Nino Southern Oscillations (ENSO); expanded resource extraction; and internal and international migration. Malaria disproportionately affects rural and indigenous populations causing long-term morbidity, with high incidence near international borders due to disease spillover and shared risks. However, control strategies are often uncoordinated between and within countries, make decisions based on incomplete surveillance data, and have no integration of climate or land cover data for strategic health response. With support from NASA, we developed a real-time MEWS for Loreto, Peru, providing current incidence and forecasted outbreaks 9-12 weeks in advance (>90% sensitivity, 75% specificity). We expanded the MEWS into Ecuador and, in December 2021, established a climate-monitoring hub at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) to provide over 20 real-time hydrometeorological estimates from our LDAS that was designed specifically to merge high resolution (daily, 10km) environmental data with epidemiological surveillance data. The hub includes a newly installed server and is supported by a transdisciplinary team from Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and the US capable of providing capacity training in climate science, infectious disease modeling and integration of LDAS into health decision-making. In September 2021, we were awarded an NIAID grant to expand MEWS estimates into Brazil and better understand transmission patterns along border regions. This proposal will insure that our LDAS and MEWS tools are adapted appropriately to a Brazilian context. If successfully, our system will have the ability to simultaneously provide real-time estimates of malaria across 3 Amazon basin countries, allowing for improved analysis of pulses of malaria moving across international borders and informing Ministries of Health of more strategic ways to develop and implement coordinated malaria control. As our LDAS data can be directly integrated with existing national surveillance programs throughout Latin America, we have the ability to expand our system throughout the entire region and extend our tool to other vector-borne, enteric or other climate-sensitive diseases.
Participants: Gilvan R. Guedes - PI (UFMG), Alisson F. Barbieri (UFMG), William Pan (Duke University), Benjamin Zaitchik (Johns Hopkins University), Tashiana Osborne (Johns Hopkins University), Mark Janko (Duke University), Kaushik Sarkar (Institute for Malaria and Climate Solutions - India), Reinaldo Santos (UFMG), Carlos Mena (USFQ), Andrea Araujo (USFQ), Manuel Narvaez (USFQ).
Duration: TBA.
Funding: Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation.
Mobility, Reproductive Intentions, and in situ Adaptations under Epidemiological and Environmental Shocks
Description of the project: Bolsa de Produtividade de Pesquisa – CNPq, Nível 2.
Participants: Gilvan R. Guedes - PI (UFMG).
Duration: Since 2022.
Funding: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq).
From the balcony of my house, the forest: the formation of the Amazon frontier from a household perspective
Description of the project: Bolsa de Produtividade de Pesquisa – CNPq, Nível 1D.
Participants: Alisson F. Barbieri - PI (UFMG).
Duration: Since 2017.
Funding: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq).
LUCIA - Land Use, Climate and Infections in Western Amazonia
Description of the project: Land Use and Land Cover Changes (LULCC), coupled with the effects of a changing climate will have important impacts on the natural environment and the human population of the Amazon. Forest conversion in Amazonia has also an influence on the dynamics of endemic infectious diseases such as malaria, yellow fever and leishmaniasis. This project builds upon previous research projects and the expertise of the team of investigators with the general objective of understanding the relationships between population changes, LULCC, climate change and infectious disease transmission. Local societies, considered as complex social-ecological systems, have inter-linkages between social, environmental and epidemiological phenomena which will be approached by using Agents Based Modeling (ABM) to produce LULCC and vulnerability scenarios for the region. ABMs are capable of representing feedback loops and critical thresholds at very low levels of social aggregation or scales and, in the process of modeling, the actions of agents and their effects will create a series of possible scenarios. Four field sites will be investigated in Western Amazonia, a rich biodiversity hotspot: Machadinho, in Rondônia (Brazil); Madre de Dios and Loreto, in Peru, and Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Inputs from ABMs will be used to develop an Index of Social-environmental and Health Vulnerability of the territories to the impacts of global environmental changes.
Participants: Alisson F. Barbieri - PI (UFMG), Gilvan R. Guedes - Co-PI (UFMG), William K. Pan (Duke University/USA), Carlos F. Mena (USFq/Ecuador), Jaime Miranda (UPCH/Peru), Beth Feingold (University of New York – Albany), Ulisses Confalonieri (UFMG), Laura Wong (UFMG).
Duration: 2012 - 2019.
Funding: InterAmerican Institute (IAI).
Dinâmica demográfica, uso da terra e desenvolvimento na Amazônia: Uma reinterpretação a partir de sete estudos de caso entre 1975 e 2010
Description of the project: The main objective of the research is to analyze information from household surveys that help to portray the demographic, socioeconomic and land use dynamics in the Amazon.
Participants: Alisson Flávio Barbieri (Coord.), Gilvan R. Guedes (UFMG), Reinaldo O. Santos, Roberto L.M. Monte-Mór, José Alberto Magno de Carvalho, Danielle Correa.
Duration: 2015 - 2018.
Funding: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq.
Demographic dynamics and land use in the Amazon: A longitudinal study for the region of Machadinho, Rondônia
Description of the project: The recent expansion of the Amazon frontier was marked by agricultural colonization projects and major infrastructure works, such as roads and hydroelectric dams, which promoted intense migration and environmental transformation. The project is a multidisciplinary research proposal on the relationship between demographic dynamics and land use dynamics in a colonization project, in the Machadinho region, in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Information used in this research includes data collected in household surveys, in addition to existing data. The fieldwork will be conducted in an open settlement project in late 1984 (called Machadinho), where some researchers from our team have previously participated in four household surveys. The information already collected will subsidize the construction of a new “wave” of field identification, in 2010 - the central object of this proposal. In this way, a longitudinal database will be created for a period of 26 years. The data previously collected in Machadinho have georeferenced information on socioeconomic, ecological, behavioral, demographic, and health characteristics, which makes it possible to perform a multidisciplinary analysis, from a spatial and temporal perspective. For this research, a questionnaire will be constructed and applied that will seek to verify recent changes in the frontier, particularly through the relationship between demographic dynamics and land use. This questionnaire will be made compatible with previous research carried out in Machadinho, allowing a unique analysis of 26 years of transformations in a part of the southern Amazon.
Participants: Alisson F. Barbieri - PI (UFMG), Roberto Luís de Melo Monte-Mór (UFMG), Ricardo M. Ruiz (UFMG), Donald R. Sawyer (UnB), Dorisvalder Dias Nunes (UNIR), John Sydenstricker-Neto (Mackenzie Presbiterian University), Betânia Maria Zarzuela Alves de Avelar.
Duration: 2010 - 2011.
Funding: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq.
Migration along the Transoceanic highway: Prerequisites for understanding changes in population, disease and environment
Description of the project: The purpose of this projectl is to better understand migration dynamics and household structure near the border of Peru and Brazil along the recently (and ongoing) construction of the Transoceanic (formally Trans-Amazonian) highway in order to provide baseline data to support future grant applications that focus on the interface between population, health and environment. There are two main objectives for this proposal: (1) to help initiate a collaboration of experts from the United States, Brazil and Peru who specialize in demography, economics, biostatistics, geography, epidemiology, and entomology; and (2) to design a sample that is representative of geographic areas in Peru and Brazil along the highway and to conduct in-depth household surveys to obtain baseline information regarding household composition, economics, mobility, reproductive health, health status, and land use.
Participants: William K. Pan - PI (Duke University/USA), Alisson F. Barbieri (UFMG), Richard E. Bilsborrow (UNC/USA)
Duration: 2010 - 2012.
Funding: Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
Modeling Population-Environment Dynamics in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Description of the project:The primary objective for this project is to examine the complex causal pathways involved in multidimensional feedbacks between demographic, environmental, and human health dynamics in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Multilevel statistical models will be developed based upon population-environment-health theory using geo-coded longitudinal household and community data collected in 1990, 1999 and 2000, augmented by a time series of remotely sensed images from 1972 to the present.
Participants: Wiliam K. Pan - PI (Duke University/USA), Alisson F. Barbieri (UFMG), David L. Carr (UCSB/USA), Richard E. Bilsborrow
Duration: 2007 - 2008.
Funding: National Institute Of Health (NIH).
The Various Amazons: spatial heterogeneity in the Brazilian Legal Amazon
Description of the project: The general idea that guides this research is to characterize the subspaces of the Amazonian reality, which, as such, have different demands for public policy intervention to promote development. This necessarily denotes, understanding the Amazon no longer as a homogeneous space, but formed by different local territorialities, regardless of its administrative disposition between states and municipalities. These differences appear in the composition of the population: urban and rural; in the sectorial composition of Gross Domestic Products, with consequent repercussions on occupation in the labor market; the endowment of factors of production, including the endowment of natural resources, also with direct implications as to the way these resources are exploited and, in the interaction of the actors involved to exploit them; in the most dynamic economic sectors in each economy; in the way wealth is distributed, with consequences for the social fabric, such as the formation, size and characteristics of poverty and inequality in each case; and therefore on the various indicators that denote the evolution of economic growth and development. This characterization will allow you to see how the formulation of the region's development policy needs to be revised, based on how its heterogeneous parts are integrated and with different needs. An analytical effort, to understand and attack the region's problems from its parts, with spillovers to the region as a whole.
Participants: Sérgio Luís de Medeiros Rivero - PI (UFPA), Alisson F. Barbieri (UFMG), Ricardo M. Ruiz (UFMG), Frederico Gonzaga Jayme Júnior (UFMG), Marco Crocco (UFMG), Eduardo Mota Albuquerque (UFMG)
Duration: 2007 - 2008.
Funding: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq).
Rural Transitions and Urbanization in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Description of the project: The project aims to assess how changes in the form of rural production and reproduction in the Ecuadorian Amazon are linked to the emerging urbanization process in the region.
Participants: Alisson F. Barbieri - PI (UFMG), Carlos Mena (USFQ/Ecuador)
Duration: 2004 - 2005.
Funding: Mellon Foundation.
Community survey in the Northeast Ecuadorian Amazon
Description of the project: The project includes three phases: a) elaboration of a sampling design of rural communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon, b) implementation of field research to collect socio-economic, political, instutional, demographic and infrastructure information from the defined rural communities for the sample design, c) analysis of the results, which were used in the doctoral dissertation of Alisson Barbieri and other doctors graduated or in the process of concluding the doctorate by UNC-Chapel Hill, as well as in the publication of several articles and research reports.
Participants: Alisson F. Barbieri - PI (UFMG), Victoria Salinas (UFMG)
Duration: 2002.
Funding: Tinker Foundation.
Demographics of Disasters: A Study for Populations in Areas at Risk of Dam Failures in Nova Lima, Minas Gerais
Description of the project: Research project approved by the Ethics Committee (COEP) at UFMG, whose objective is the collection of primary data for the preparation of Vanessa Campos's master's dissertation (Master's Program in Demography at UFMG).
Participants: Alisson F. Barbieri (Coord.), Vanessa Campos (Co-coord.), Gilvan R. Guedes.
Duration: 2019-2020.
Funding: Own funding.
Integrative Project (PI) Social and Environmental Security (SSA)
Description of the project: The integrative projects emerged with the objective of articulating around analyzes that contemplate the transversality of the theme of Climate Change (Ordinance MCTI nº 787, of 03.03.2015). Each Integrative Project is coordinated by a group of researchers participating in the Clima Network, appointed by the group of coordinators of the Network and approved by the board of directors (Portaria MCTI nº 787, of 03.09.2015). PI-SSA integrates research carried out by the CLIMA Network within the sub-networks Regional Development, Cities, Health, Biodiversity, Water Resources, Coastal Zones, Public Policies and Scientific Dissemination, seeking to identify synergies in their respective themes associated with the vulnerability of urban populations and peri-urban areas in the lower-middle São Francisco River, particularly in the semi-arid regions, encompassing, among others, the municipalities of Juazeiro (BA) / Petrolina (PE), Piranhas (AL) and the coastal region.
Participants: Saulo Rodrigues Filho - PI (UnB), Alisson F. Barbieri - Co-PI (UFMG), Gilvan R. Guedes (UFMG) and others.
Duration: 2016-2019.
Funding: Rede Clima (rede Brasileira para Pesquisas em Mudanças Climáticas).
Multidimensional Approaches to Analysis of Population Vulnerability to Climate Change: Case Studies in Minas Gerais
Description of the project: Research scholarship grant (PQ)
Participants: Alisson F. Barbieri
Duration: 2014-2017.
Funding: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq).
Vulnerabilidades e Adaptação às Mudanças Climáticas: Uma avaliação intergrada das dimensões sociodemográfica, econômica e de saúde para o estado de Minas Gerais
Description of the project: The project aims to increase knowledge about impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation to climate change in Brazil, focusing on the micro-regions of Minas Gerais and the RMBH. Three main objectives are defined: i) to assess the long-term relationship between climate change, socio-demographic and economic dynamics, and population health; ii) develop methodologies for identifying situations of vulnerability from an integrated perspective of the relationships between climate change, socio-demographic and economic dynamics, and health; and iii) to discuss the construction of medium and long-term planning capacities, and their full incorporation into public policies in their various spheres, as a strategy to adapt to the impacts of climate change on demographic, economic and health dynamics. From a broad literature review, the methodologies for building climatic, sociodemographic, economic and health scenarios will be refined. Methodologies for regionalization of climatic scenarios, population projections, education, housing, sanitation and other dimensions that define situations of vulnerability, economic projections based on a computable general equilibrium model and agricultural scenarios with the impacts of climate change, and methodologies will be proposed. of building health indicators. Then, an integrated analysis methodology will be proposed, indicating how the climatic scenarios may impact the socio-demographic, economic and health dynamics in Minas Gerais. An index will be proposed that will define and identify the multidimensional character of vulnerability to climate change in Minas Gerais, being useful for the evaluation of long-term adaptation strategies. The achievement of the project's objectives will allow the consolidation and expansion of a research group on climate change in Minas Gerais with a focus on applied social sciences and health.
Participants: Alisson F. Barbieri (Coord.), Heloísa Soares M Costa, Bernardo L. Queiroz, Ulisses Confalonieri, José Irineu Rangel Rigotti, Edson Domingues, Kenia Noronha, Flávia Chein.
Duration: 2011-2013.
Funding: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG).
Rede Clima - Sub-network Cities and Urbanization
Description of the project: The Brazilian Network for Research on Global Climate Change (Rede CLIMA) was established by MCT in late 2007 and its main objective is to generate and disseminate knowledge so that Brazil can respond to the challenges represented by the causes and effects of global climate change. The objective of the "Cities and Urbanization" Sub-network is to articulate researchers and institutions aimed at analyzing the human dimensions of climate change from urban agglomerations.
Participants: Alisson F. Barbieri - PI (UFMG) and Gilvan R. Guedes - Co-PI (UFMG), Ricardo Ojima (UFRN) and others.
Duration: Since 2010.
Funding: FINEP and CNPq.
International Migration in times of crisis: a study on the process of incorporating Syrian refugees in the cities of São Paulo and Hamburg
Description of the project: The objective is to understand how Syrian refugees are adapting in the cities of Hamburg and São Paulo in terms of employment, housing, participation in education and health systems, and how they relate in general to society in each destination. It is hoped that this study will generate greater knowledge about the living conditions of Syrian refugees in São Paulo and Hamburg to be obtained, in order to support, directly or indirectly, public policies aimed at this population and group.
Participants: Alisson F. Barbieri - PI (UFMG), Alexandre Ferreira - Co-PI (UFMG), Gisela Zapata (UFRJ).
Duration: Since 2019.
Funding: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).
Regional Development Plan for Alto Paraopeba (CODAP)
Description of the project: The objective of the project is to develop a regional development plan for the municipalities belonging to CODAP (Public Consortium for the Development of Alto Paraopeba): Belo Vale, Congonhas, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Entre Rios de Minas, Jeceaba, Ouro Branco and São Braz do Suaçui . Based on a reference of historical formation and a survey of the region's recent socioeconomic and demographic dynamics, as well as the perspectives of projects and structuring policies, the aim is to establish a prognosis for the region and select some projects and policies that favor a greater use of regional and municipal level in economic, social and environmental terms. The time horizon considered adequate for this study is the period 2010-2020, in which all structuring projects, be they public and private, must be completed and local development policies must be implemented.
Participants: Alisson F. Barbieri - PI (UFMG), Ricardo M. Ruiz - Co-PI (UFMG), Moema Fígoli (UFMG), Roberto Luís de Melo Monte-Mór (UFMG), Edson Domingues (UFMG) and others.
Duration: 2009 - 2010.
Funding: Consórcio Público para o Desenvolvimento do Alto Paraopeba (CODAP).
Demographic Studies of the Area of Direct and Indirect Influence of CVRD Investments in some of the Municipalities of the Minas Gerais Iron Region
Description of the project: Demographic profile evaluation of municipalities in the area of influence of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) in Minas Gerais, and evaluation of the likely impacts of CVRD's investment plans under the demographic profile of these municipalities until the end of 2013.
Participants: Alisson F. Barbieri - PI (UFMG), Moema Fígoli - Co-PI (UFMG).
Duration: 2006 - 2007.
Funding: Fundação vale do Rio Doce.
Regional Strategic Plan around Major Mining Projects in Médio Espinhaço
Description of the project: Based on a reference of historical formation and a survey of the region's recent socioeconomic and demographic dynamics, as well as the perspectives of structuring projects and policies, and the knowledge of the potential and limitations of the region of reference considered, an attempt will be made to establish a prognosis of the region and select some projects and policies that favor a greater use of regional and municipal potentialities in economic, social and environmental terms.
Participants: Alisson F. Barbieri - PI (UFMG), Roberto Luís de Melo Monte-Mór (UFMG), José Irineu Rigoti (UFMG), Edson Domingues (UFMG), Fabiana Borges dos Santos (UFMG), João Bosco Tonucci (UFMG) and Osias Baptista (FUMEC University).
Duration: 2012 - 2014.
Funding: Secretaria Estadual de Desenvolvimento Regional e Políticas Urbanas (SEDRU/MG)
Regional Strategic Plan around Major Mining Projects in the North of Minas
Description of the project: Based on a reference of historical formation and a survey of the region's recent socioeconomic and demographic dynamics, as well as the perspectives of structuring projects and policies, and the knowledge of the potential and limitations of the region of reference considered, an attempt will be made to establish a prognosis of the region and select some projects and policies that favor a greater use of regional and municipal potentialities in economic, social and environmental terms.
Participants: Alisson F. Barbieri - PI (UFMG), Roberto Luís de Melo Monte-Mór (UFMG), José Irineu Rigoti (UFMG), Edson Domingues (UFMG), Fabiana Borges dos Santos (UFMG), João Bosco Tonucci (UFMG) and Osias Baptista (FUMEC University).
Duration: 2012 - 2014.
Funding: Secretaria Estadual de Desenvolvimento Regional e Políticas Urbanas (SEDRU/MG)
Micro-scale vulnerability: information platform on socio-epidemiologically vulnerable groups to the COVID-19 epidemic and public policies to combat the disease.
Description of the project: The reduction of the impacts of the disease involves the elaboration of health and assistance policies that are sensitive to the reality of those affected. This is further aggravated by the fact that it is a new disease, with a high epidemic potential and that affects population groups with different response and adaptation capacities. For the elaboration of mitigating actions, it is necessary to have reliable information systems on the social, economic and spatial characteristics of the affected population. Such systems need to be anchored in the knowledge and subjectivity of those affected by the disease and by the social and economic impacts of restrictions on circulation and carrying out economic activities. Thus, this project seeks to strengthen the dialogue between the university and society in an action that seeks to generate a positive impact in terms of improvements in the lives of people affected by the disease or its indirect effects. The project's objective is to build a cooperative knowledge platform about socio-epidemiologically vulnerable groups to the covid-19 epidemic and the implementation of an action investigation that promotes strategies to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic in the State of Minas Gerais. The specific objectives are defined as: i) mapping of the socio-epidemiologically vulnerable groups to covid-19 in Minas Gerais; ii) identification of the impacts of the pandemic and its containment policies on vulnerable groups; iii) cooperatively build a knowledge base on the impacts of the pandemic, involving affected agents; iv) create strategies to give visibility to groups vulnerable to the pandemic and their main demands; v) encourage the development of strategies to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic, with a focus on projects to co-opt partners and raise funds; vi) make available the information generated on an online platform for wide consultation of the population.
Participants: Marden Campos - PI (UFMG), Alisson F. Barbieri (UFMG), Diego Macedo (UFMG), Jorge Alexandre Neves (UFMG), Ludmila Freitas (UFMG).
Duration: Since 2020.
Funding: PROEX/UFMG.
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