Cauane Blumenberg

A team from the International Center for Equity in Health (ICEH) coordinated a workshop on how to measure health inequalities in Brasília, Brazil. The workshop occurred from the 20th to the 22nd of November and was attended by the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) staffs.

During the course, the ICEH team covered the basics about health inequalities and introduced the software and calculations used by the ICEH in order to study health inequalities. At the end of the workshop the participants had to produce an equity profile regarding selected outcomes using VIGITEL surveys.

The ICEH team was composed by Fernando Wehrmeister, Cauane Blumenberg, Andrea Wendt and Janaína Costa. The workshop was part of the project ‘Monitoring Brazilian inequalities‘.

From the 2nd to the 6th of September, researchers from the Center for Epidemiological Research of the Federal University of Pelotas will be in Brasília to coordinate the training of data collection teams that will be working on the second stage of the Impact Evaluation of the Happy Child Program.

The event is organised by the Brazilian Ministry of Citizenship, and is being held at the Grande Oriente Brasil convention center. The Pelotas team is composed by Iná Santos (researcher), Tiago Santos (researcher), Raquel Barcelos (Supervisor), Caroline Bortolotto (supervisor), Marina Haertel (secretary) and Cauane Blumenberg (data scientist). They will be responsible to train supervisors and interviewers from six different Brazilian federative units: Bahia, Ceará, Goiás, Pará, Pernambuco and São Paulo.

Impact on the news…

If you want to learn more about the training, you can check out some information on the news:

• Epidemiology – UFPel website: PPGE lidera estudo para medir resultados e qualificar o programa Criança Feliz
• Diário Popular newspaper: Epidemio lidera estudo para avaliar o Criança Feliz

From the 11th to the 15th of June it was held at the Ministry of Social and Agrarian Development, in Brasília-DF, Brazil, the training of 60 interviewers that will work collecting data for the impact evaluation study of the Happy Child Program. The interviewers were presented to the questionnaire and also to the electronic data collection instrument that will be used during the fieldwork.

The fieldwork will be conducted in the second semester of 2018, in six Brazilian federation units. The electronic data collection instruments were built by the data scientist Cauane Blumenberg, from the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil.

More information about the project and the training can be obtained here (website in portuguese).