Pedro Fernando Da Costa Vasconcelos MD, PhD

Dr. Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos is head of the Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia para Febres Hemorra gicas Virais-INCT-FHV Brazil’s National Institute of Science and Technology for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, located at the headquarters of the Instituto Evandro Chagas (IEC), Brazil’s Ministry of Health, in Ananindeua, Para state. Dr. Vasconcelos is also the head of the IEC Arbovirology and Hemorrhagic Fevers Department, a fellow researcher of Brazil’s Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientıfico e Tecnologico CNPq – National Council for Scientific and Technological Development and director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Arbovirus Reference and Research at the IEC.

He completed his medical degree at the Medical School of the Universidade Federal do Para in Belem and pursued a specialty in Tropical Medicine at Universidade de Sao Paulo. Dr. Vasconcelos received a Ph.D. from Universidade Federal da Bahia, in Salvador, and completed his post-doctoral studies in Molecular Virology in the Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston (USA). He is a member of the editorial boards of three scientific journals. Revista Pan-Amazonica de Saude and an Associate Editor for the Virology area Open Epidemiology Journal, and Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases.