About me
After training as a pediatrician, Dr. Waleska Caiaffa obtained training in public health at Bloomberg Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (master and post-doctoral) and at the Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG (doctoral degree). She served as a full professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine - UFMG, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where currently, she is a visiting professor. Dr. Caiaffa founded the Observatory for Urban Health (OSUBH-UFMG) in 2002 and is the director. Throughout her career, she has maintained links to national and international groups on urban health involving research and training initiatives and collaborated with global urban health expert groups, including Report to the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health from the Knowledge Network on Urban Settings – KNUS; Roundtable on Urban Living Environment Research (RULER) support by Rockefeller Foundation; WHO Urban Health Initiative Expert Group; and WHO Kobe Centre consultation group for guidance for urban health observatories. For four years, Dr. Caiaffa served as a Member of the Board of the United Nations University - International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Urban Health and the Cities and Health Journal and has served on the board of the International Society for Urban Health/New York Academy of Medicine (ISUH/NYAM) from 2007-14; as president (from 2011-14), she chaired the 10th International Conference for Urban Health (ICUH), in Brazil.
Funded as a Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) research fellow for 25+ years, she has served as a mentor for masters, doctoral and post-doctoral students and other capacity buildings initiative.
Currently, Dr. Caiaffa is on the board of Executive Committee of the Salurbal Project and the Latin America Countries (LAC) Network, where she has been one of the partners since their creation.
