Graduate in Dentistry from the Faculty of Dentistry of the Federal University of Goiás (2002), Specialization in Dentistry in Collective Health (UFG – 2003), MSc in Collective Health by Botucatu Medical School UNESP (2005) and Master in Gerontology by Faculty of Medical Sciences of UNICAMP (2009). He completed a doctorate in Public Health at the Faculty of Public Health of the University of São Paulo (FSP-USP), area of concentration in Epidemiology (2009). He has experience in the area of Collective Health, with emphasis on Epidemiology, working mainly in the following subjects: Public Health, elderly health, gerontology, collective oral health, epidemiology, biostatistics and spatial analysis in health – geoprocessing. He is a Senior Researcher in Public Health at the Aggeu Magalhães Institute – Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (IAM – Fiocruz) and Adjunct Professor of the Area of Social Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE).