Marcia Chame (Fiocruz) speaks on health and biodiversity at the ENBT’s 2026 Inaugural Speech

“Health and Biodiversity in Times of Environmental and Climate Crisis” is the theme of the 2026 Inaugural Lecture at the National School of Tropical Botany of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden (ENBT/JBRJ), on Tuesday, March 24, at 2:00 p.m. The guest speaker is Professor Marcia Chame dos Santos, Ph.D., coordinator of the Institutional Platform for Biodiversity and Wildlife Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz).

Marcia Chame holds a bachelor’s degree (Santa Úrsula University), a master’s degree, and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences—Zoology (UFRJ). She is a senior researcher at Fiocruz and, in 2019, also assumed the role of scientific director at the American Man Museum Foundation (Fumdham) in Piauí. Her areas of expertise include Parasite Ecology, with an emphasis on participatory surveillance of emerging zoonoses, information systems, parasitology, paleoparasitology, biodiversity, conservation areas, citizen science, and digital inclusion. She coordinates projects in the Amazon, Pantanal, Caatinga, and Antarctica.

Due to construction at ENBT, the Inaugural Lecture will be held in the Multipurpose Room of the Botanical Garden Museum and can be accessed via the JBRJ YouTube channel.

ENBT 2026 Inaugural Lecture

March 24, at 2:00 p.m.

Location: Multipurpose Room of the Botanical Garden Museum

Rua Jardim Botânico, 1008.

Free admission.

Watch the Inaugural Lecture on the JBRJ YouTube channel.