Full Professor at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, UFES, in Preventive Medicine, Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Collective Health. Holds the title of Licentiate in Public Health by the Faculty of Public Health of the University of São Paulo (2011). Currently Researcher 1B at CNPq in Public Health and Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick - School of Medicine, Ireland. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Human Growth and Development (ISSN 0104 1282 e-ISSN 2175 3598) and epidemiology. Leader of the COVID-19 Observatory Brazil/Ireland with research on Lethality and Mortality by COVID-19 in Brazil and Ireland.