Professional Master's Degree in Child and Women's Health 

In this year, 2023, the Professional Master's Degree in Child and Women's Health (MPSCM) of the Fernandes Figueira National Institute of Women's, Child, and Adolescent Health of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (IFF/FIOCRUZ) celebrates its 20 years of existence. In these two decades, the MPSCM formed Masters through groups articulated with the demands of strengthening the IFF National Institute, the Ministry of Health, and State and Municipal Health Secretariats. It faced challenges of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) in its mission to fight for and guarantee the rights of Brazilian women, children, and adolescents.

The MPSCM aimed to preserve and improve the coherence and consistency of its Program with its guiding principles: the insertion in Collective Health and the commitment to train strategic staff for the Unified Health System, where its mission is training health professionals who promote women's, children's and adolescents' health in the Brazilian context. These principles are aligned with FIOCRUZ’s mission and were reiterated in FIOCRUZ’s Education Institutional Development Plans (2016/2020 and 2021/2025).

The MPSCM aims to respond to the demand for training strategic staff to work in the field of women's, children's and adolescents' health in the Brazilian health system, considering the institutional mission of "Promoting the health of women, children and adolescents and strengthening the SUS”. This objective is grounded on one of the essential functions from the perspective of Collective Health: assuring and improving the quality of individual and group health actions from the viewpoint of their results and the social determinants of health. The main specific objectives or skills related to it are as follows:

(a) Strengthen skills for the use of measurement techniques and standards that can promote and assess the improved quality of actions and services and the strengthening of health care networks for women, children and adolescents at the local, state and national levels.

(b) Favor the definition or contextual appropriation of healthcare guidelines based on the subjects' autonomy and leadership from the best scientific evidence and cost-effectiveness analyses of care practices;

(c) Combine central and current aspects of health actions and policies with the meanings constructed in the daily life of services, with regard to humanization, establishment, and strengthening of care networks and sectoral discussions.

The specificity of the MPSCM, a pioneer in the country with the theme of Women's, Child, and Adolescent Health in the field of Collective Health, strengthens its inclusion in Brazilian graduate programs. In this role, the Program has been strengthened by its insertion in a FIOCRUZ/MS National Institute and has been guided by a dynamic process of revisions of its planning based on faculty’s collective reflections, the teaching experiences, and the inputs of its students in permanent search for articulation, adherence, and updating of its concentration area, lines of research, ongoing projects, and curricular structure.

Prof. Dr. Martha Cristina Nunes Moreira

Psychologist from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (1992), Master in Public Health from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (1996) and PhD in Human Sciences / Sociology from IUPERJ (2005). She is currently a Health Management Analyst at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. She conducts research and teaching activities in child and adolescent health at the Fernandes Figueira Institute, emphasizing studies on complex chronic health conditions in children and adolescents; support bases and relational analyses concerning civil organizations linked to the movements of people with rare diseases; gender, sexuality and construction of parenting in the context of chronic illness and health complex; Feminist theory of care and life with disabilities. She is a member of the CNPQ Sociocultural Studies Research Group on the health-disease-care process Research Line - Narratives, memories and trajectories of care: body, technology, and health. She has been Associate Editor of Journal “Cadernos de Saúde Pública” since 2004. She currently holds the position of assistant editor for the social sciences area of the Revista Ciência e Saúde Coletiva. She is a professor and advisor at the Child and Women's Health Postgraduate Program – Master's and Doctorate Courses at the IFF/FIOCRUZ. She served as Deputy Director of Teaching in a collegiate manner at the Fernandes Figueira National Institute of Women’s, Child and Adolescent Health (IFF/FIOCRUZ) from 2017 to 2021. She is a CNPQ Productivity Scholarship holder.

Prof. Dr. Danielle Ribeiro de Moraes

She is a doctor and educator, public health technologist at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, and joint leader of the Laboratory of Artistic Experiments and Creative Reflections on Cities, Education and Health (LEARCC/UERJ). She is a member of the Pedagogical Advisory Board of the Education Coordination of the Fernandes Figueira National Institute of Women’s, Child, and Adolescent Health (IFF/FIOCRUZ). She graduated from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), has a medical residency in Preventive and Social Medicine from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), and a Qualification in Elementary and High School Teaching – Biological Sciences from the Cândido Mendes University. Master and PhD in Public Health from the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health/FIOCRUZ. She a Literature Graduate (Portuguese Language/Literatures) from the Fluminense Federal University (CEDERJ/Paracambi Consortium). She is a professor of the Technical Course in Community Health Workers at the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health (EPSJV/FIOCRUZ); the Multidisciplinary Residency in Chronically-Ill Child and Adolescent Health and the Child and Women's Health Postgraduate Program at IFF/FIOCRUZ, and the ENSP/FIOCRUZ Public Health Postgraduate Program. He has experience in Collective Health and Education, especially in the following areas: professional education; popular health education; health  care, surveillance and management, including hospital epidemiology.

In recent years, she has dedicated herself to studying the interfaces between the field of health and the human and social sciences, emphasizing the debate on risk and health, gender, and prevention. She is interested in medical discourse analysis and life medicalization; intersectionality; social studies of science and technology.

CPG Members:

Prof. Dr. Maria Auxiliadora de Souza Mendes Gomes 

She graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1986), Residency in Pediatrics (IPPMG/UFRJ), Residency in Public Health (ENSP/FIOCRUZ), Master's and Doctorate in Child and Women's Health from the Fernandes Figueira Institute of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (2002). She is currently a researcher and professor at the Child and Women's Health Postgraduate Program at the Fernandes Figueira Institute, the Coordinator of the Professional Master's Program and Consultant for the Coordination Offices of Women's and Child Health and Breastfeeding at the Ministry of Health. She has experience in research and management. in the area of Children's and Women's Health, working mainly on the following topics: evaluation of programs, health actions and technologies, perinatal and pediatric care, and child and women's health.

Prof. Dr. Andrea Araujo Zin

She graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1989), Master's degree in Medicine (Ophthalmology) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1997) and PhD in Child and Women's Health from the Fernandes Figueira Institute, FIOCRUZ, RJ (2010). She is currently research coordinator at the Fernandes Figueira National Institute of Women’s, Child and Adolescent Health, (IFF/FIOCRUZ), Medical Director of Catarata Infantil Institute, regional consultant - Community Eye Health Journal, member of the Education Committee of the Board and works in the lines of research in Perinatal Health and Prevention of Childhood Blindness and Diseases.

Prof. Dr. Luciane Binsfeld

She holds a PhD in Collective Health - Women's and Child Health from the Fernandes Figueira National Institute of Women's, Child, and Adolescent Health (IFF/FIOCRUZ); Master’s in Health Planning and Management, Specialization in Public Health and in Management of Health Systems and Services from the National School of Public Health (ENSP/FIOCRUZ). She graduated in Organizational Management at PUC/RJ and in the Development of Management Skills at the Dom Cabral Foundation. She has experience in the organization and planning of care networks, in the management of health projects and hospital organizations. She is a permanent staff at FIOCRUZ as a management and planning analyst; she served as coordinator of the project planning and management area and is currently part of the management team of the Coordination of National Actions and Cooperation on the Fernandes Figueira National Institute’s Board of Directors.