Ulisses Confalonieri

FIOCRUZ, ENSP, Departmento de Ciências Biológicas, Brazil

Associations:
-Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
-Earth System Science Partnership
-Brazilian Association of Tropical Medicine.

Research Interests:
-The role of environmental changes as determinants of infectious diseases in the tropics
-Emergence-reemergence of infections diseases
-Impacts of climate on health
-Ecology of Diseases in the Amazon Region
-Land Use and Land Cover changes as drivers of disease incidence in the Tropics
-Ecology of zoonotic diseases.

Publications include:
Confalonieri, U. E. C. (org.), 1995. The Health of Indigenous Peoples in the Brazilian Amazon. Background paper for the World Bank. Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, 218 pp.
1998. Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon, pp 49-50, In: World Resources Institute, World Resources 1998-99. “Environmental Change and Human Health”, WRI, Washington, D.C.
Confalonieri, U. E. C., 2001. Global Environmental Change and Health in Brazil: review of the present situation and proposal for indicators for monitoring these effects pp 43-77, In: Hogan, D. & Tolmasquin, M. (Eds). Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Changes: the Brazilian Perspective. Academia Brasileira de Ciências, Rio de Janeiro.
Patz, J.A ; Githeko, A.K.; McCarty, J.P.; Hussein, S.; Confalonieri, U. & de Wet, N., 2003. Climate Change and Infectious Diseases, chapter 6, pp 103-132, IN: McMichael, A.J. et al (Eds), Climate Change and Human Health. Risks and responses, WHO/WMO/UNEP, Geneva.
Patz, J. A. & Confalonieri, U.E.C., 2005 . Human Health: Ecosystem Regulation of Infectious Diseases, Chapter 14, In: Conditions and Trends, The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report (in press).
Confalonieri, U.E.C., 2005. Health in the Amazon: a conceptual model for the Analysis of Landscapes and Diseases. Estudos Avançados, 53: 211-227.
Confalonieri, U.E.C., 2005. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Tropical Ecosystems and Infectious Diseases. EcoHealth (in press).

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

: Public Health & Epidemiology > Occupational & Environmental Medicine (28 February 2006 - 27 May 2008)

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