Frederico Peres is a Visiting Associate Professor at the NOVA National School of Public Health, as well as a senior researcher at the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health – Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil (ENSP/FIOCRUZ) and a Fellow Researcher at the International Health Division of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – New York, USA.
He has 27 years of teaching and research experience in the fields of occupational and environmental health, and is the author of several academic texts, including the books “É Veneno ou é Remédio?” and “Literacia em Saúde”, both published by Editora Fiocruz (2003 and 2021, respectively). He is currently Associate Editor of the Portuguese Journal of Public Health for the Health and Environment area. At ENSP/FIOCRUZ, he served as Vice-Coordinator of the Center for the Study of Workers’ Health and Human Ecology, between 2005 and 2010, and Vice-Director, between 2013 and 2016. Between 2012 and 2017, he was Assistant Editor of the Journal Ciência e Saúde Coletiva.
He holds a PhD in Public Health from the State University of Campinas (2003), a post-doctorate in Occupational and Environmental Health from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2012), a master’s degree in Public Health from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (1999) and a degree in Biological Sciences from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (1996).
