Carlos Augusto Monteiro (born March 8, 1948) is a Brazilian

epidemiologist Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population, and application of this knowledge to prevent diseases. It is a cornerstone ...

who coined the term

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and introduced the

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Education

Monteiro studied medicine at the

University of São Paulo The Universidade de São Paulo (, USP) is a public research university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and the largest public university in Brazil. The university was founded on 25 January 1934, regrouping already existing schools in ...

from 1967 to 1972. He continued his studies to obtain a master's degree in

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in 1977 and a doctorate in

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in 1979. Monteiro worked as a postdoctoral researcher at

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from 1979 to 1981. He was appointed full professor at the Faculty of Public Health at the University of São Paulo in 1989. From 1990 to 1992 he worked in the nutrition department of the

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in Geneva and was a visiting professor at the universities of

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and

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. In 1992 he returned to São Paulo and has since headed the Center for Epidemiological Research in Nutrition and Health at the University of São Paulo (NUPENS/USP).

Career

Monteiro's particular research interests are public health in underdeveloped parts of Brazil and the prevention of obesity and other diseases of civilization in the wake of increasing prosperity. On the second point, he and his team developed the

, which is now used worldwide to measure the increasing consumption of

s. He is scientific editor-in-chief of the Brazilian public health journal ''Revista de Saúde Pública'' (as of November 2022) and was co-editor of the journals Public Health Nutrition and

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. Since 2010 he has been a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Board on Nutrition Issues.

Honors and awards

The Brazilian Academy of Pediatrics awarded Monteiro its 2006 prize in the published works category. In 2009, Thomson Reuters awarded him the Scientific Productivity and Impact Award in the social sciences category. In 2010, the

Pan American Health Organization The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) in charge of international health cooperation in the Americas. It fosters technical cooperation among member countries to fight communicable and non ...

awarded him the Abraham Hortwitz Prize for Excellence and Leadership in Health Care in the Americas, which has been awarded once a year since 1975. Since 2008, Carlos Monteiro has been a member of the

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. In 2012 he became a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo.

Publications

The scientific literature and citation database

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lists Carlos Augusto Monteiro as the author or co-author of over 260 specialist articles with an

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of 70 and consistently lists him as a "highly cited scientist in the field of social sciences" for the years 2018 to 2022. His most cited publications include: * * *

References

External links

Publications by Monteiro
in the PubMed database
Publications by Carlos Augusto Monteiro
on Google Scholar * {{DEFAULTSORT:Monteiro, Carlos Augusto Nutritionists Academic staff of the University of São Paulo Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences World Health Organization officials 21st-century Brazilian people 1948 births Living people