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Oriana Rainho Brás

Research Group:

5: Health, Population and Well-being


Research Team:

Public policies, organisations and health professions


Online Profile:


E-mail:

orianabras@fcsh.unl.pt




Oriana Rainho Brás concluded her PhD in Sociology in 2013, at the University of Coimbra, with a thesis on the bio-social trajectories of tuberculosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She graduated in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the same university in 2003. Her research is focused on health, the environment and public participation in water management. Currently, she is part of the research team of the project ETIC Managing end-of-life trajectories in pallative care: a study on the work of health care professionals, PTDC/SOC-SOC/30092/2017”, at CICS.NOVA, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.


Research Interests:

Health. Environment. Public participation. Water. Ethnography.