Public Health Researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Coordinator of the National and International/Regional Reference Laboratory (PAHO/WHO) in Entomological Surveillance, Taxonomy and Ecology of Leishmaniasis Vectors, at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, since 2004. Consultant to the Health and Environment Surveillance Secretariat, Ministry of Health, for the National Leishmaniasis Program. Member of the Expert Committee of the Leishmaniasis Control Program of the Pan American Health Organization. Member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Parasitic Diseases (Leishmaniasis). Coordinator of the Fiocruz Reference Network for Leishmaniasis. Deputy Director of Reference Laboratory and Biological Collections, at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute. Coordination of the Health Sub-component of the National Institute of Science and Technology in Climate Change. Coordinator of the strategic program at Oswaldo Cruz Institute/ FIOCRUZ "Climate, Health and Governance"