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.