Anya Vieira Meyer

Anya P G F Vieira Meyer is a researcher at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Ceará and a professor at Centro Universitário Christus. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and a MSC from the University of London. She was a visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley in 2015/2016. Her work mainly focusses on the assessment of knowledge, practices, care and health conditions of people in risk groups (HIV, children, elders, patients with special needs, Conditional Cash Transfer beneficiaries, etc.); evaluate health services in the area of primary care - from the perspective of users, health professionals and managers; as well as the impact of public policies, such as conditional cash transfer, on the health of the population. Currently she is evaluating the reverberance of urban violence and Covid-19 on health professionals, especially  Community Health Workers, mental health and work process in several scenarios in Brazil.