Federal University of Minas Gerais

My name is Vanessa Clemente.

I'm a TID doctor and a professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

And it's my pleasure to chair today's webinar alongside Dr. Peter Chiogini, who is a consultant parasitologist at the University College London Hospitals, as well as Dr. Cameron Wolfe, also a TID doctor, professor of medicine at the Duke University, and a member of the executive council of the TID section.

We are all thrilled to have you join us for this webinar.

uh and my idea was to build an academic career so i studied mathematics i started teaching in in elementary and high school uh and i i was about to to join the masters program and by then i was my intention was to to do some research on something applied And then football came.

I knew that two guys, one friend of mine and one that became a friend of mine, were starting to write what was the first research paper on football analytics that we had on our university, the Federal University of Minas Gerais, which is the state that I was born.

And years later, this became a lab, a research lab on sports analytics, which is the first Brazilian sports analytics lab.

But then I got involved with research in football analytics.

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So the UFMG probability model post-match week 25 has Palmeiras at 48.4% to win the title, Flamengo at 39.2%, and Atletico PR trailing at 9.1%.

And the media narrative coming out of the weekend was highly polarized.

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Hello, and welcome to In Conversation with the Lancet Microbe.

I am Elisa Pocu, and today I'm delighted to be joined by three guests, Maria do Carmo Pereira Nunes, full professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Sheila Klassen, cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, US, and Valdeires Dutra, full professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

Today, we will be talking about a new Lancet series published at the Lancet Microbe and the Lancet Regional Health Americas on rheumatic heart disease.

This four-paper series discusses several topics ranging from epidemiology in Latin America, immune-mediated pathogenesis, prognostic relevance, and echocardiographic perspectives and medical management of rheumatic heart disease.

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the Read Them Sideways podcast.

I'm Dr Sam Vilkins, and today I have with me two visiting researchers from Brazil, Dr Julia Esther de Paula and Talis Antonelli from the Media and Public Sphere Research Group at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil.

In this episode, we talk about their work on the Compartilha Project, which is building deliberative capacity in young people in Brazil, and now here to expand and compare with work in Australia in connection to the University of Canberra and here at the Queensland University of Technology.

We hope you enjoy the episode.