Dec 2022
Nísia Trindade Lima
Nisia Trindade Lima, current President of Fiocruz, was appointed head of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. The announcement was made this morning, December 22th, by the Brazilian-elected president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Nísia was the first woman to lead Fiocruz. She was first elected in 2017 and reelected in 2021 by Fiocruz employees with 91,6% of votes.
She led Fiocruz in the fight against COVID-19 and signed the agreement for transferring technology of Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine to produce it in Fiocruz facilities, at the Immunobiological Technology Institute (Bio-Manguinhos).
Nísia is a sociologist and joined Fiocruz thirty years ago. She was a researcher and then director of Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (1998-2005), a unit of Fiocruz for research, teaching, documentation, and communication in the history of health and science, the same unit that is responsible for the publication of HCS-Manguinhos.
Nísia wrote the Guest Editor’s letter of the latest issue of HCS-Manguinhos, which celebrates two decades of history of the Graduate Program in History of Sciences and Health (PPGHCS) at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC/Fiocruz).
“In celebrating the 21 years of the PPGHCS at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, we note that these original challenges are still present and even more urgent. This is not a matter of understanding history like a life coach and seeking lessons from the past. Instead, it is an affirmation of the absolutely essential nature of the historian’s position so that society can broaden its perspective on the analysis of social processes”, states Nísia in her letter.
Revista Historia Ciência Saúde-Manguinhos is very proud to have Nísia Trindade Lima among the members of its editorial board and wish her success in conducting the Brazilian Ministry of Health
See her articles already published in Manguinhos:
Lima, Nísia Trindade. History as a window to the future: 21 years of the Graduate Program in the History of the Sciences and Health. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos [online]. 2022, v. 29, n. 4
Lima, Nísia Trindade and Botelho, André. Malária como doença e perspectiva cultural nas viagens de Carlos Chagas e Mário de Andrade à Amazônia. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2013, vol.20, no.3, p.745-763. ISSN 0104-5970
Lima, Nísia Trindade and Maio, Marcos Chor. Ciências sociais e educação sanitária: a perspectiva da Seção de Pesquisa Social do Serviço Especial de Saúde Pública na década de 1950. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2010, vol.17, no.2, p.511-526. ISSN 0104-5970
Lima, Nísia Trindade. Uma brasiliana médica: o Brasil Central na expedição científica de Arthur Neiva e Belisário Penna e na viagem ao Tocantins de Julio Paternostro. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jul 2009, vol.16, suppl.1, p.229-248. ISSN 0104-5970
Sá, Dominichi Miranda de, Sá, Magali Romero and Lima, Nísia Trindade. Telégrafos e inventário do território no Brasil: as atividades científicas da Comissão Rondon (1907-1915). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2008, vol.15, no.3, p.779-810. ISSN 0104-5970
Schweickardt, Júlio César and Lima, Nísia Trindade. Os cientistas brasileiros visitam a Amazônia: as viagens científicas de Oswaldo Cruz e Carlos Chagas (1910-1913). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dez 2007, vol.14, p.15-50. ISSN 0104-5970
Lima, Nísia Trindade. Missões civilizatórias da República e interpretação do Brasil. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jul 1998, vol.5, p.163-193. ISSN 0104-5970
Kropf, Simone Petraglia and Lima, Nísia Trindade. Os valores e a prática institucional da ciência: as concepções de Robert Merton e Thomas Kuhn. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Fev 1999, vol.5, no.3, p.565-581. ISSN 0104-5970
