Area of concentration: HUMAN HEALT

Area of concentration: HUMAN HEALTH

Description: Study of intrinsic and extrinsic factors associated to health, to care, to life quality and to the diagnosis and control of diseases.

Research Lines:

1. Food and implications regarding health.

Description: Study of the food-health relationship approaching toxicology, microbiology and food safety.

Jane Martha Graton Mikcha, PhD

Research activities:

Food microbiology

Foodborne pathogens

Miguel Machinski Junior, PhD
Research activities:

Food mycotoxins

Biological and chemical food residues

2. Chronic diseases.

Description: Epidemiology, genetic susceptibility and control of chronic diseases.

Roberto Kenji Nakamura Cuman, PhD

Research activities:

Epidemiology and therapeutic of chronic-degenerative diseases (diabetes, hypertension and inflammatory processes)

Activity of natural and synthetic products in chronic-degenerative diseases (diabetes, hypertension and inflammatory processes)

3. Intercurrences and confrontations in health aggravations.

Description: Epidemiology, indicators and confronting strategies and reflexes on the assistance and the quality of human life.

Maria Dalva de Barros Carvalho, PhD
Research activities:

Epidemiology and care indicators to detectable diseases in newborn screening

Epidemiology of health problems due to external causes

Sandra Marisa Pelloso, PhD
Research activities:

Study of intercurrences and strategies to confront aggravations in the health of the woman

Epidemiology and indicators of assistance in health aggravations

Márcia Edilaine Lopes Consolaro, PhD
Research activities:

Biology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and therapy of cervical cancers and sexually transmitted diseases

Sérgio Ricardo Lopes de Oliveira, PhD

Research activities:

Monitoring diseases and pediatric interventions

Study of preventive strategies in pediatrics

Luciano de Andrade, PhD

Research activities: 

Epidemiology of morbidity and mortality of coronary ischemic diseases and external causes