Davide Rasella

PI

Davide leads the health impact assessment group at The Barcelona Institute of Global Health, and at the Institute of Collective Health in Brazil. His main research interests are in health impact assessment and evaluation of social policies and interventions. ORCID

Luis Eugenio

co-I

Luis is the president of the World Federation of Public Health Associations and coordinates studies on the effectiveness of healthcare systems and healthcare interventions in Brazil. ORCID

Erika Aragao

co-I

She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Economics from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and a PhD in Public Health from the same institution. She completed her postdoctoral studies at the University of Sussex, England, under the supervision of Mariana Mazzucato. Since 2015, she has been an adjunct professor at the Institute of Public Health (ISC-UFBA) and a research fellow at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, where she worked in scientific and technological management at the Bahia unit from 2006 to 2015. She is a member of the Economics, Technology, and Innovation in Health Program at ISC-UFBA and the National Institute of Science and Technology for Innovation in Diseases of Neglected Populations (INCT-IDPN) at Fiocruz-CDTS. She coordinated the Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies and Policies Axis of the Observatory for Political Analysis in Health. She was President of the Brazilian Association of Health Economics (Abres) from 2019 to 2022. She represented Abrasco on the Budget and Financing Committee of the National Health Council for four years. She was Director of the Department of Health Economics and Development (DESID) of the Secretariat of Science, Technology, and Innovation and of the Health Economic-Industrial Complex (SECTICS) from February 2023 to January 2025. She has experience in Economics, with an emphasis on Health Economics, working primarily on the following topics: program evaluation; science, technology, and innovation policy in health; economics of technology; and health policies. ORCID

Daniella Medeiros Cavalcanti

co-I

Daniella Cavalcanti holds a PhD in Economics and a Postdoctoral degree focused on the impact evaluation of social and health policies on health outcomes. With over 14 years of experience as a consultant and researcher, she has worked on multisectoral projects totalling more than USD 363 million (≈ BRL 1.3 billion) in collaboration with institutions such as UNDP, UNESCO, OEI, MRC-UKRI, PAHO-WHO, the World Bank and Brazil’s Ministries of Health, Education, Human Rights, and Social Development. Her expertise includes evaluation, monitoring, databases, and econometric modelling, with a focus on the Global South—particularly Brazil, Latin America, and Lusophone Africa. Motivated by scientific evidence and its potential to inform high-level and policy decisions, her work combines rigour and practical impact to promote equitable and sustainable development. Personal website

Rodrigo Volmir Rezende Anderle

RA

Rodrigo’s interests are related to complex systems dynamics. He works with forecasting and modeling of socioeconomic scenarios and policy interventions on health outcomes using the Social Determinants of HIV/AIDS (DSAIDS) and the Brazilian Platform for Health Projections (ProBraS). ORCID

Lucas Sales

RA

Lucas Sales is an applied statistician with a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of São Paulo and over two years of industry experience with AI applications. Currently, he is a postdoctoral research assistant at the Federal University of Bahia, where he works on projects integrating advanced statistical methods with public health research. His primary interests include time series modeling, statistical process control, design of experiments, Monte Carlo simulations, natural language processing, and the use of micro-simulation techniques to analyze social and epidemiological data.

Carlos Feitosa Luna

RA

Carlos Feitosa Luna is a technologist at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, graduated in statistics, with a doctorate in public health, with experience in the area of ​​applying quantitative methods in health, with an emphasis on sample planning, statistical modeling, fiscal micro simulation, regression models, time series, spatial analysis and non-parametric methods. ORCID

Alexander de Castro Almeida

Project Manager

Master in Administration from the School of Administration of the Federal University of Bahia (EAUFBA) and project manager of several projects in epidemiology by the Institute of Collective Health of the Federal University of Bahia (ISC/UFBA).

LINK: Currículo do Sistema de Currículos Lattes (Alexander de Castro Almeida)

Alberto Pietro SIroni

Platform Development

Alberto is interested in data science and information technologies in public health, with a special focus on epidemiological analysis with expertise in data science and visual analytics platforms. ORCID