Maria Ligia Rangel Santos

Full Professor (retired) of the permanent staff of the Postgraduate Program in Public Health at the Institute of Public Health of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), with a degree in Medicine from this University (1976), Master’s degree in Public Health (UFBA, 1993), PhD in Public Health (UFBA, 2001), Senior Internship (Post-Doctorate) at the Open University of Lisbon (2015 to 2016), with support from CAPES (BEX 2476/15-0). I develop teaching, research, extension and technical cooperation activities in the areas of Health Education and Communication and Permanent Health Education. I coordinate the Media and Health Research line, with which I collaborate at the Health Policy Analysis Observatory at ISC/UFBA, and Health Education and Communication Technologies line, both from the Health Education and Communication research group, coordinated by me. I workd as a Deputy coordinator of the UNA-SUS UFBA Network, and of several Specialization courses in Public Health (PMM and others) in the EAD modality. I have experience in the area of Public Health, with an emphasis on the following topics: health risk, communication and health, worker health, distance education, health surveillance and tuberculosis.