Guilherme Loureiro Werneck graduated in Medicine from the State University of Rio de Janeiro in 1985 and received a Master's in Public Health from the Institute of Social Medicine of the State University of Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Public Health and Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2000. He completed a full postdoctoral internship in the Department of Global Health and Population, at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2013. His research interests focus on the field of public health, with an emphasis on epidemiology, and his line of research deals mainly with the following topics: epidemiology of infectious diseases, epidemiological methods, epidemiology and control of visceral leishmaniasis, analysis of spatial data and biostatistics.