I started my research training in a relevant institution in Brazil (Federal University of Bahia), where I finished my MSc in Public Health. My PhD thesis, awarded by the LSHTM, focused on dengue during pregnancy. During this period, I developed a growing interest in the effects of prenatal exposures throughout the life course. After my PhD, I was awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship to study congenital infections using electronic health records from Brazil. A Wellcome Career Development Award currently supports my research on the long-term effects of prenatal exposure to infectious diseases in children and adolescents. Other research interests include the impact of social and environmental determinants on birth, growth, morbidity, and survival in subgroups of interest in a dynamic Brazilian birth cohort.
Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Centres
Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health
Teaching
Dr Paixao teaching areas are public health and epidemiology. At LSHTM she is a distance learning CO-Module Organizer "EPM101 Fundamentals of Epidemiology". She is also a tutor for face to face program "Basic Epidemiology" and "Extended Epidemiology". She supervises MSc and PhD student projects.
Research
Research Area
Electronic health records
Global Health
Health outcomes
Neonatal health
Public health
Epidemiology
Virology
Country
Brazil
Region
Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)
Selected Publications
2022
PloS one
2022
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
2022
BMJ Global Health
2022
BMC MEDICINE
2022
BMC Medicine
2022
The Lancet Infectious diseases
2022
The New England journal of medicine
2022
Nature Medicine
2022
Heliyon
2021
International journal of epidemiology