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Europe
2008-2009 - Cohort 14
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Tamara Levine is currently a Policy Analyst and Administrator of the Development
and Environment Network of the Development Cooperation Division of the OECD. Tamara has had a diverse academic and professional career including field work in Latin America (Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru), Africa (Cameroon, Namibia, Nigeria and South Africa), Asia (Bhutan, Indonesia and Vietnam) and Kazahkstan, project work with the Swiss Foundation for Development Cooperation (Intercooperation), policy work with the Canadian International Development Agency, and policy and analytical work with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. |
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Europe
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
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Tamara Horbacka has over 14 years experience curating and delivering international cultural and educational programmes which focus on architecture, urbanism, sustainability and culture. Tamara was, until April 2010, a senior curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects where she was responsible for the international programme of talks and symposia. She led on strategy and international partnership development and sat on the Policy and Strategy Group of the RIBA.
In 2007 Tamara launched ‘International Dialogues: Architecture and Climate Change’ which brought together leading thinkers and practitioners from different professional disciplines to nurture new thinking and understanding between architecture, sustainability and environmentalism. She has worked closely with a wide variety of institutes, government and academic bodies, museums, organisations and practitioners from around the world. In 2009 she co-founded 2ideas with architect Sandra Piesik to conduct major research and instigate the rehabilitation of the traditional crafts, cultural and architectural heritage of the UAE working in partnership with local communities. This project is ongoing. Tamara recently received funding from the British Council to research and develop an international cultural programme which will focus on sustainable development, technologies and craft in India. Tamara is a Trustee and Board Member of the UK charity Architecture sans Frontiere and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She lives in London with her partner and twin daughters. |
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Pakistan
2001-2003 - Cohort 10
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No biography
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Brazil
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Mrs. Perez is working at ABDL/LEAD Brazil Program since April, 1999, providing administrative support for the Secretariat, typing documents and letters. She is also responsible for processing information during the selection processes.
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Anglophone and West Africa
2006-2007 - Cohort 12
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Mr. Tanko Ibrahim AYUBA is the Supervising Pharmacist with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NPCC), Kaduna, Nigeria. He had earlier worked with Katsina General Hospital, Nigeria as an Intern Pharmacist.
Mr. Ayuba obtained his Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm) degree from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He also obtained from the same university a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree and is currently running another Master of International Affairs and Diplomacy (MAID) He is a member of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) and a chartered member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (MIN) |
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China
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
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HU Tao is a senior associate fellow at the Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy at the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA). He is responsible for making policy proposals related to environmental economics. Such proposals have been presented to SEPA, local environmental protection Bureaus, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Global Environmental Facility. He has conducted several research projects and also attended many national and international conferences. As director of Environment and Economy, his position allows him to organize research directly related to environmental development.
His doctorate in ecology is from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he has taken additional studies in environmental economics at the University of London. Currently he's teaching China's Enviornmental Management and Policies in University of Oregon, Eugene, US. |
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Anglophone and West Africa
2007-2008 - Cohort 13
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Mr Taofik B OLORUKO-OBA is a Senior Product Manager with Swiss Pharma Nigeria Limited. He is responsible for sales, marketing and business development of Roche Strategic Pharmaceutical Products in Nigeria. Before then, he had worked with Tonark Pharmacy, Lagos, Nigeria, and the Nigerian Telecommunications Medical and Industrial Health Centre, Lagos, Nigeria.
Mr Oloruko-oba obtained his Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He had been a recipient of Rocephin Award for Excellence and Product Champion for Benzodiazepines and Bactrim Pharmacetical Products. He is a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Nigerian Association of Industrial Pharmacists and the Nigerian Cancer Society. |
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Japan
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Mr. Tapan Kumar Sarker is a Research Assistant of LEAD Japan Program and a World Bank fellow at the Graduate School of Business and Commerce of Keio University. He has been graduated in Forestry and Environmental Science with honors in 1992. He has got work experiences at NPOs, Government and University. He worked in the Sunderbans Reserve Forests under the UNDP/FAO Forest Resource Management Project for its inventory and database establishment and also as a lecturer of Environmental Science in University. At present he works for the Ministry of Finance to the Government of Bangladesh and completing Master_fs in Taxation Policy and Management under the graduate school of business and commerce at Keio University. He has several national and international publications covering environment, forestry, economy and public policy. His recent work is _gTechnical Assistance in Fiscal Affairs in Developing Countries: State and Nature in Bangladesh_h at the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (www.ibfd.org), The Netherlands. It reviews the role of foreign aid and technical assistance in developing countries including the Japanese ODAs to South Asian Countries. His research interests include Environment and Economy, Environmental taxation, Public policy, sustainable environmental development and NPOs.
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Southern and Eastern Africa
2006-2007 - Cohort 12
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Tapiwa Jhamba is a research project manager in the Population and Development Research Directorate, National Department of Social Development, Pretoria South Africa. Before this appointment , he was a senior lecturer in the department of Sociology and Population Studies at Walter Sisulu University, in the Eastern Cape, SA. Prior to this he was a project officer in the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) country office in Harare responsible for population and development strategies. His responsibilities included programme and project formulation, research and data analysis, as well as monitoring and evaluation. Before joining UNFPA, he spent 6 years as a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe in the Center for Population Studies where he taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He was responsible for courses which include; migration, mortality, demographic techniques and research methods and statistics, and also supervised postgraduate dissertations. He has several publications in areas that include mortality, gender, fertility and health.
Tapiwa holds a doctor of philosophy in demography from the Australian National University as well as an MSc in population studies and a BSc (honours) in geography from the University of Zimbabwe |
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India
1994-1996 - Cohort 3
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Ms. Gadhok is currently working as Freelance Development Consultant. Last year she took voluntary retirement form HSMI, where she was worked as a senior fellow at the Human Settlement Management Institute in New Delhi, where she researches and develops course material for training programs. Ms. Gadhok has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's degree in structural engineering, both from Punjab University. In addition, she studied computer-aided design in Nottingham University's Department of Planning in the United Kingdom.
At HSMI she has conducted many training programmes on sustainable urban development and urban environment management as well as on disaster mitigation deriving linkage between environment degradation and natural disasters. She is currently developing a curriculum on healthy cities for urban managers and workers at the grass root level in the local bodies under WHO. She has many publications to her credit on the areas of disaster mitigation and urban risks. She has been instrumental in creating collaborations between her institute and many international bodies(UN, UNCHS,ADPC,DFID, WHO) for carrying out their programmes in the country. She was also involved in drafting URBAN POLICY for the government of India. Her main interest has been in the area of water harvesting and recycling as critical issue in urban environment management. |
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Indonesia
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No biography
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Commonwealth of Independent States
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
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Tatiana FAYZULLINA is a Regional Manager and Carbon Originator at Gazprom Marketing & Trading Limited (UK). Prior to that she worked in a capacity of a Senior Project Manager at EcoSecurities Plc, a leading carbon aggregator. Tatiana is focusing on origination of CDM and JI projects worldwide. Her past assignments include freelance consulting for BP Russia where she advised on sustainability issues and foreign investments into oil and gas indusrties in the Russian Federation. Tatiana also gained legal experience with governmental and academic sectors during her work in Russia with the Parliament of Tatarstan and Kazan State University of Medicine.
She holds MSc in Environmental Technology from the Imperial College London (2004), Bachelor of Law from the Kazan State University (1998) and BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Kazan State University of Technology (1996). |
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Commonwealth of Independent States
2005-2006 - Cohort 11
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Tatiana Baranowska graduated from Faculty of Biology of Samara State University in 1990. She joined WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) in 2002 as Leader of the Project 'Biodiversity Conservation in the Ural Ecoregion'. The objectives of the project are establishment of the Network of the Protected Areas in the Urals and setting up a mutually beneficient interaction between the indigenious people and their natural environment.
Prior to joining WWF Tatiana had experience in education and in general management. She speaks fluent Polish and Italian. |
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Commonwealth of Independent States
1993-1995 - Cohort 2
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Work as a Senior Scientist and Foreign Affairs Coordinator since 1986. In 1993-1994 worked in London as British Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow. Besides during last years implemental managerial job, worked as a Head of the Development Department, implemented PR
coordinar duties, etc. Tatyana Victorovna Yakovleva obtained a Ph.D. degree inMmathematics and Physics from the Moscow Engineering-Physical Institute (1982). Other diplomas and certificates include: Diploma with honours of Moscow Engineering-Physical Insititute (1979), Diploma with Honours of Special Higher School of Referent-Interpreters (1980),Certificate of British Royal Society(1994), Certificate on Finance and Accounting Course graduation (1998) and some others. |
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Commonwealth of Independent States
1994-1996 - Cohort 3
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Dr. Vaschenko graduated from Moscow State University with both a master's degree and a doctorate in mathematics. She has attended several national conferences related to this field, including the Novosibirsk Math Conference in 1985 and the National Mathematics Conference at Moscow State University in 1986 and 1987. She is Director of Desktop Publishing at the All-Russian Electro-Technical Institute in Moscow, where she is responsible for managing children's publications and textbooks. Prior to her current position, Dr. Vaschenko taught math to secondary school students in Moscow. She is interested in enhancing environmental education at all levels within the school system, as well as through the media.
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Commonwealth of Independent States
1997-1999 - Cohort 6
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Tatyana PUZANOVA is an associate researcher in the faculty of geography at Moscow State University. Along with her teaching, she also organizes student field trips and studies focusing on the problems of human impact on biosphere evolution. She also supervises and participates in several research projects aimed at regenerating the soil cover in various regions of Russia. She has a Ph.D. in geography.
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Indonesia
1996-1998 - Cohort 5
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Taufiq ALIMI is the Vice President of Rare Indonesia Regional Office. Rare Indonesia Regional Office manages campaigns for changing behavior toward conservation of species, and conservation of marine and terrestrial ecosystems in Indonesia, Malaysia, and East Timor. Rare conservation is to inspire communities to find bright spots or solution on improving livelihood and conserving the ecosystem and species, and replicate them. Together with other regional offices in China, Latin America, Philippines and Micronesia Rare Indonesia has inspired hundreds of communities to be proudly conserving their resources.
Previously, Taufiq Alimi served as National Coordinator of the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) Forestry in Indonesia. He coordinated the development of REDD (Reduction of Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) Plus Projects in Indonesia. He also served as the member and executive chair of National Forestry Council. Through the Council, Alimi provided counsels and policy suggestions to the Minister and Ministry of Forestry in general. In 2005-2009, he was Executive Director of the Indonesian Ecolabelling Institute (or Lembaga Ekolabel Indonesia, LEI). He was leading the development of Indonesian Standard for Timber Legality Verification. He served as Indonesian delegates in numerous negotiations on forestry with European Unions, USA, and regionally within ASEAN frameworks. After joining LEAD training in 1996-1998 as part of LEAD Indonesia Cohort 5, Taufiq Alimi worked for LEAD Indonesia Program serving as Academic/Program Director (1999-2004). Taufiq Alimi also worked intermittently as facilitators of training/meeting and consultants. He provided his consultancy services to Overseas Development Institute (ODI, in London, UK), Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA)-Catham House (London, UK), UNESCAP, Oxfam, UNREDD, L'Agence Française de Développement (AFD), and other institutions working on forestry or natural resource management. His colleagues also knows him as talented magician, give him a spoon and you will know it! |
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Southern and Eastern Africa
2007-2008 - Cohort 13
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Pakistan
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
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Ms. Samina holds Master degrees in Social Forestry and Biochemistry. Currently, she is pursuing her Masters in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins University USA. In addition to her being a Consultant with the World Bank Headquarters Washington DC ( Environment, Slum Up gradation), she is a managing partner in TAMIR CONSTRCUTION Inc (a construction company working in both residential and commercial works, licensed in the tri-state of Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC).
Her main areas of interest are environment, community and gender development. She has worked with several national and international NGOs. She was engaged with US-Pakistan Business Council (a non profit organization based in USA, aiming to promote and strengthened economic ties between the two countries) in the sector of Forestry and Agriculture. Previously, she worked in the field of rural development in general and agriculture development in particular, at the Management Service for Health, USAID, Austrian Relief Committee and the Sarhad Rural Support Corporation. Ms. Samina is a member of several national organizations. She is also the Director of Al-Nisa, an NGO working for women, Pakistan Tree Form Society, Amnesty International |
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Southern and Eastern Africa
2010-2011 - Cohort 16
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Indonesia
2005-2006 - Cohort 11
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Teguh is a Compartment Redaktur for Swasembada Magazine, his job are writing and editing articles. SWA is an biweekly economic magazine. It provides business information in any business sector to the people. Its vision is to create a good business climate and to encourage entrepreneurship.
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Japan
2001-2003 - Cohort 10
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Teiji TANIZAKI is a chemist at the Kitakyushu Institute of Environment Sciences, and also works on the technical staff of the municipal headquarters. The main focus of his work is conducting trace analysis of samples from the environment - air, waste gas, fly ash and so forth - to find contaminants such as heavy metals, endocrine disruptors and dioxins.
Before moving to the institute, Teiji worked in the environmental assessment of large public engineering works such as airports, artificial islands and landfills. He has a strong interest in titanium dioxide as a means of combating environmental pollution. The substance generates strong oxidation potential when exposed to ultraviolet rays from the sun, which means that dioxins, nitrate oxidants, pesticides and other organic pollutants in the air and water can be dissipated by simply exposing them to sunlight. Teiji is researching and developing ways to apply this method at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. Teiji has an MA in organic chemistry in technology from Kyushu University. |
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India
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
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Tejinder Singh BHOGAL is a freelance Development Consultant working with NGOs and Government Organizations working on Rural Development. His current professional interests focus on providing Organizational Development (OD) and Capacity Building support to such organizations. He is also involved in helping development organizations resolve internal conflict, as well as to develop mechanisms of monitoring individual performance, as well as of recruitment and selection. A large part of his work involves holding workshops in the area of leadership, team building, conflict resolution.
Among other things he has provided design and capacity building inputs to a World Bank supported Poverty Alleviation program in Madhya Pradesh, India. One significant input in this regard has been the development of a manual for selecting Government personnel for Poverty Alleviation programs. This Manual outlines the practical steps involved in selecting personnel who have the appropriate Motivational profile for working with communities. Another input vis-a-vis the above mentioned program has been to develop a system of coaching for the personnel involved in the task of community development. His coaching inputs include how to understand rural communities, how to develop a relationship of trust and confidence with them, and how to promote effective village level groups and institutions. Prior to his current work he has also worked with the National Dairy Development Board's Fruit and Vegetable project in West Bengal and the hyper-saline Bhal track along the Gulf of Cambay. He is interested in the concept of lift irrigation schemes that are assisted by the government, financed by banks and managed by the community. He has a bachelor's degree in agriculture with honors in plant protection from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. He also has a post graduate diploma in rural management from the Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand, Gujarat. |
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Anglophone and West Africa
2007-2008 - Cohort 13
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Miss Temitope Olabisi ADEYEMI is a Graduate Fellow in the Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Lagos, Nigeria. She holds a BSc Botany with 1st Class Honours and she is currently pursuing her doctorate degree course (PhD) in Botany at the same University. She specializes in Phytochemistry, Molecular Taxonomy and Environmental Botany. She is a high performance driven academia, dedicated, diligent and possesses the zeal for self- development. She had worked briefly with the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Nigeria before embarking on her PhD studies.
Miss Adeyemi is a Graduate Member of the Nigerian Institute of Management Studies and had a proficiency certificate in Management. |
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Southern and Eastern Africa
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Tendero Makwenha worked for the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) developing and supporting systems for Disease Control in the Ministry of Health, Epidemiology and Disease Control Department. He also worked for John Sisk & Son P/L as Assistant IT Manager before joining the National Y2K Taskforce as coordinator for Health, Energy, and Local Government. It is from the National Y2K that Tendero joined the LEAD family as LEADnet Coordinator for Southern Africa.
Tendero has a diploma in computers. He likes going to church, listening to music, football and photography. |
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Commonwealth of Independent States
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
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Teo URUSHADZE is with the department of agronomy at Georgian State Agrarian University, from which she graduated with a specialization in in plant protection. She defended her thesis in 1994 on the topic 'Soil and ecological peculiarities of pine cultures in the environs of Tbilisi'.
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Europe
2007-2008 - Cohort 13
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Teresa is a lawyer of French/Portuguese nationality, She graduated from University of Paris X – Nanterre with a Masters in International Human Rights Law and has been Programmes Coordinator of the Child Protection Unit of a French NGO called
Groupe Développement since 2000. Her areas of interest include child migration issues, south cities urbanisation, livelihood opportunities for vulnerable youth, and youth participation. |
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Mexico
1993-1995 - Cohort 2
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Marfa Teresa Macfas Cardone, coordinator for the master's program on energy and environment at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, received a bachelor's degree in political Science from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, a master's degree in social science from the Institute of Social Studies in The Netherlands, and a doctorate in energy from Erasmus University, also in The Netherlands. Dr. Macfas's focus of study is energy and the environment, with particular emphasis on the trend of new energy supplies. She is a published author whose titles include 'In the Era of Petroleum: Problems and Perspectives' and 'Energy, Development, and Environment'. She was also the principal organizer of two national conferences on energy and development.
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Mexico
1993-1995 - Cohort 2
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Teresa Esperanza Saavedra Vazquez, private secretary for the Director General of Ecology, Department of the Federal District, holds a bachelor's degree in sociology and a master's degree in social science, both from the Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico (UNAM). As a LEAD Associate, she hopes to exchange information with other LEAD Associates about new trends in the area of sustainable development. Professionally, Ms. Saavedra would like to become an international consultant on issues of sustainable development, and through LEAD, establish links with other Associates in order to exchange current information in the field.
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Brazil
2001-2003 - Cohort 10
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Terezinha de Jesus Soares dos Santos, originally from Amapa, has been a researcher at IEPA since 1998. She acted as Director-President for the period covering March 1999 to May 2000, subsequently Director of the Medical Plants and Natural Products Center of IEPA, developing work to aid in the production of phyto-therapeuticals, evaluating protocols with volunteer subjects and research on our region�s natural products for use as food and cosmetics.
Terezinha is a Group member of the Brazilian Government's Ministry of Healths' Phyto-therapeuticals Study Committee, with five researchers and technicians serving from all parts of Brazil. She is a participant in numerous seminars, congresses, workshops covering themes such as the sustainable use of medicinal plants and products from the Amazon. For three years, Terezinha was the Pharmaceutical Project Coordinator at Earth's Pharmacy, serving rural communities as an educator in the proper use of medical plants in the treatment of the more common and less complex diseases. This project supports the use of aromatic plants and brings with it the possibility of changing the quality of lives of women agriculture workers in the Fazendinha District of Macapa. PPG7 support is used in training members of the Women Extractionists Association of the Cajari Reserve (Associacao de Mulheres da Reserva Extrativista do Cajari) in production methods for homemade soap using the locally abundant oil-producing species. Terezinha received her B.S. in Pharmaceuticals at the Federal University of Para, specializing in Environmental Toxicology at the Federal University Fluminense and Oswaldo Cruz Foundation Worker's Health Institute, both of which are located in Rio de Janeiro. Her M.S. in Public Health was taken at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. In her free time she loves to dance and travel throughout rural Amapa. Other time is spent reading or at the movies. |
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