I am an Associate Professor of Public Administration at FGV São Paulo School of Business Administration in Brazil.

My research focuses on the political economy of pharmaceutical governance in Latin America. I study how governments build capacity to regulate medicines, produce vaccines, and reduce dependence on imports, and how firms and business associations shape those efforts. I treat health regulation not merely as a technical requirement but as a tool for shaping markets.

My work has appeared in journals such as Research Policy, New England Journal of Medicine, Social Science & Medicine, PLoS Medicine, and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. I am the author of a book on Brazil's generic drug regulation reform published by Springer and co-editor of Coronavirus Politics (University of Michigan Press, 2021).

I am a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics. I have also held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and LSE's Latin American and Caribbean Centre. I have also led consultancy projects for UN agencies (PAHO, UNODC, UNFPA) on monitoring and evaluating public health and social protection projects.

I hold a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Edinburgh (UK, 2011) and a PhD in Public Health from the National School of Public Health (Brazil, 2008).