LisanyPortuguês

Nurse · PhD candidate in Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, UFMS

LisanyKrug Mareto

I study the trail epidemics leave behind in mothers and children — and what makes a vaccine reach, or fail to reach, the people who need it.

Portrait of Lisany Krug Mareto against a grainy gradient of pink, orange, blue and violet, with a band of liquid chrome crossing behind her shoulders.
Portrait · chrome treatment over the original photograph
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About

I am a nurse trained at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Brazil, where I also completed my master's degree and am now a PhD candidate in Infectious and Parasitic Diseases.

My work is epidemiology. Instead of following one patient at a time, I look at health data from entire populations to understand what happened — and what could have been prevented.

It started with an undergraduate research fellowship funded by CNPq, studying pregnant women infected with Zika virus in Campo Grande during the 2015–2017 epidemic. That question never let go of me: I still investigate what happens to those children years later.

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Research

Three questions organise what I investigate.

Congenital Zika

What happens to children exposed to Zika virus in the womb? I study neurological and developmental outcomes years after exposure, alongside the congenital anomalies recorded during the 2015–2018 epidemic.

Vaccination coverage and hesitancy

How many children are actually vaccinated — and how much of that can official figures really see? My master's thesis assessed the sensitivity of childhood vaccination coverage data in Campo Grande. In parallel, I investigate why families delay or refuse vaccines.

Health surveillance and data quality

Bad data becomes bad policy. I work on congenital syphilis, dengue, HIV and yellow fever, looking at what information systems record, what they miss, and how much that changes a decision.

  • Biotecnologia · Biotecnologia em Saúde Humana e Animal · Vacinas e Kits para Diagnósticos
  • Saúde Coletiva · Epidemiologia
  • Medicina · Imunização
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Publications

21 works registered in the Lattes CV, last updated on 30/03/2026.

Output curve

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Each bar is a year. Click to filter — the same reading she does of an outbreak, applied to her own work.

Topic

Journal articles — 9

Full CV on Lattes ↗30/03/2026

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Education

  1. 2017–2022

    Graduação

    Enfermagem

    Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul

    Vacinação prévia contra febre amarela e a infecção humana pelo vírus Zika: um estudo caso controle

  2. 2022–2023

    Especialização

    Vigilância e Cuidado em Saúde no Enfrentamento da COVID-19 e outras doenças

    Fiocruz Mato Grosso do Sul

  3. 2023–2025

    Mestrado

    Doenças Infecciosas e Parasitárias

    Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul

    Avaliação da Sensibilidade dos Dados de Cobertura Vacinal de Crianças em Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul.

  4. 2025 · in progress

    Doutorado

    Doenças Infecciosas e Parasitárias

    Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul

  • Awards · 2020Premiação de melhor trabalho na área Ciências da Saúde do Integra UFMS 2020 - LiveUniversidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul

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Contact

Open to collaborations, questions from students, and conversations with journalists.