Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: JOÃO MIGUEL DIÓGENES DE ARAÚJO LIMA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : JOÃO MIGUEL DIÓGENES DE ARAÚJO LIMA
DATE: 11/11/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: SOL - remoto - https://conferenciaweb.rnp.br/sala/tiago-ribeiro-duarte
TITLE:

The pandemics to come: Construction of risk in socio-technical networks of epidemiological and environmental surveillance in the Amazon

KEY WORDS:

Risk. Sociotechnical networks. Infectious diseases. Pandemic. Amazon.

PAGES: 106
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUMMARY:

In recent decades, there has been an effort, which gained traction with the covid-19 pandemic, to monitor the risk of infectious diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential. From a global health security perspective, the aim is to transform a future, generic, and uncertain threat of the ‘disease X’ into a quantifiable and monitorable risk. Part of this work relies on the production of field data by scientists and national epidemiological and environmental surveillance services, which monitor areas of the world with highly threatened biodiversity, such as the Amazon forest, where zoonotic and vector-borne diseases are a major concern. To understand how part of this work takes place, who participates in it, and which knowledges are produced, this research aims to understand how the sociotechnical network that builds and monitors the risk of (re)emergence of zoonotic infectious diseases operates through epidemiological and environmental surveillance in the Amazon, with a case study in state of Acre, Brazil. Given the intersection of health, science, politics, and technology, this research is situated within the Social Studies of Science and Technology (SSST) and adopts Actor- Network Theory (ANT) to trace the threads that connect human and non-human actors, such as mosquitoes, documents, larvae, and computers. This is a qualitative case study, involving semi- structured interviews and walking/go-along interviews with endemic disease control agents (ECAs), supervisors, and coordinators working in the municipal health departments of Assis Brasil and Rio Branco and the state health department of Acre. Data analysis will be conducted using Thematic Analysis, with an emphasis on the translation of interests and standardization of data, to understand, from a human perspective, how their technical expertise takes shape.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - ARMELA DINO - UCMADRID
Interno - 1642428 - FABRICIO MONTEIRO NEVES
Externo à Instituição - MARKO SYNESIO MONTEIRO - UNICAMP
Externo à Instituição - Paulo de Freitas Castro Fonseca - UFBA
Presidente - 1569541 - TIAGO RIBEIRO DUARTE