Naomar de Almeida Filho

Naomar de Almeida Filho is full professor of Epidemiology at the Collective Health Institute at Bahia Federal University (UFBA), of which he was president (2002-2010). He has also been president of the Southern Bahia Federal University. Almeida graduated in Medicine and obtained a master’s degree in Public Health from UFBA. He earned a doctorate in Epidemiology from University of North Caroline (United States) and an honorary doctorate from McGill University (Canada). He was a visiting professor at University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill, at University of California in Berkeley, at Harvard University (all three in the United States, and at Université de Montréal (Canada). He was also the first holder of the Juan Cesar Garcia Chair at Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico), and visiting professor of the Maestría en Epidemiología at Universidad Nacional de Lanús (Argentina). Since leaving the presidency of UFBA, he has focused his academic production on studying university and its relationship with society. Among his books, the following stand out: Universidade nova: textos críticos e esperançosos (2007); Memorial da universidade nova: UFBA 2002-2010 (2010), coauthored with Boaventura Sousa Santos; A universidade no século XXI: para uma universidade nova (2008); and A quarta missão da universidade (2012), coauthored with Fernando Seabra Santos. Throughout his career as a scientist, he has dedicated himself to the epidemiology of mental disorders, particularly the effect of race, racism, gender and social class on mental health. In his academic work, he has written a series of important textbooks on the epidemiological method and on epistemological aspects of epidemiology.