Interview: Maria Cristiane Barbosa Galvao

Abstract

Maria Cristiane Barbosa Galvao is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Medicine at the Ribeirao Preto Medical School of the University of Sao Paulo. She has a PhD in Information Science by the University of Brasilia, with an internship at the University of Montreal. In addition, she was an associate researcher at the University of Campinas and a visiting professor at the Department of Family Medicine at the McGill University and at the University of Malaga. Researcher in the area of health information, in this interview, she brings reflections on the importance of researchers and information professionals in the health area in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The interview was conducted on October 2020.