My experience in teaching started when I taught Mathematics, Geography, and Sociology to secondary school students in a rural Brazil as a junior doctor. This area was also deprived of educators and so filling this role instilled in me a passion for education. Since then, I have been active in teaching in academic institutions in Brazil and the UK, and took part in teaching courses in other countries, such as in Germany, Latvia, and Argentina. My main focus has been in areas related to public health and preventative medicine, and I have been committed to the teaching and development of students at various levels.

I had key roles in teaching in the 1990s in Brazil and then at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) as well as other institutions in the UK. My subjects have included epidemiology, public health, and research methods at undergraduate and post-graduate levels in health related fields. I was one of the first tutors and course organizers for the distant learning MSc course in epidemiology at the LSHTM, contributing to the development of teaching strategies, training, and monitoring of tutors. As a course organizer and study unit organizer, I have overseen the quality of study materials and recommended their development, and directly coordinated the review of study materials for two study units, including the creation of new modules. This pioneering experience contributed to the development and consolidation of distant learning at the School. In 2018, I contributed to an educational film aimed at the education of General Practitioners and other health professionals on Myeloencephalitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) (film in development, planned for release in 2019). I also contributed to teaching of public health to MPhil students at the University of Cambridge, through the Institute of Public Health, and have supervised MPhil, MSc and PhD students from the LSHTM, Cambridge University and other institutions in Brazil and the UK.