Alicia Matijasevich

Alicia Matijasevich graduated from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay, with a degree in Medicine (1992) and a specialization in Pediatrics and Neonatology (2002). She obtained a PhD in Epidemiology from the Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil, in 2005. In 2007 she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Currently she is an Associate Professor of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Dr. Matijasevich has conducted research in the area of maternal and child health epidemiology, and inequalities in health and health care, in the context of life cycle studies for more than fifteen years. She works with cohort studies, coordinating several research projects in Brazil. Her research interests include the mental health of mothers and their children, the assessment of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in children and adolescents, and the study of inequalities in health from a life cycle perspective.