And someone asked, what is your innovation?

Short answer is:

my social innovation consists in developing public health as a foundation for thriving societies.

Long answer is … well, read below!

It really all started with the proposal to implement a new area of research: prospective epidemiology.

But the pandemic came to put everything up side down, like for many of my peers. And here is a consolidation of the key accomplishments since:

I switched to scientific dissemination to fight against fakes news, to create bridges between Brazilian researchers and the USA, to save science from its rampant misfortune, to strengthen and assist the technical-scientific production of Brazilian scientist mothers during the Pandemic due to the chaos of isolation, 

I started supporting actions and implementing sanitary barriers for people from the Amazon rainforest, as many specialists were overwhelmed (or sick, or worse), 

I carried out training in #publichealth to confront Covid-19 in slums and indigenous communities, I produced material to teach protection and care against Covid-19, 

I published this article evaluating the health systems in Brazil and the USA and their response to Covid-19,

I also got the support of UNESCO - without belonging to any recognized company / institution - to publish a book fruit of the work of 37 researchers who are mothers and were in a situation of technical and emotional isolation. This was the foundation stone of the “Collective of Mother Scientists”.

I toasted quite a few neurons in the way but I also remember: daily fight against the anti-vaxx, disown those who spread fake news, giving a zillion lectures to repeat the same: watch out people, and wear the mask.

And yet: son at homeschooling, husband at home with home office, and me doing hell's office.

When things calm down (will they ever?) I don’t mind going back to prospective epidemiology. Or tackle any other challenge that invariably knock at the door.

Thinking coldly, instead of innovation, we should all compete for a survival prize !!!