Guest researcher at CPS: Renata Arruda

Renata Arruda is a permanent lecturer at the Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil. She has been teaching general philosophy of science and introductory logic for several years, and has been leading an international research group on her area of expertise as well as being a collaborator in other research groups based in Chile, Spain, and Norway. She is best known for her work in philosophy of medicine and of epidemiology, and during her stay at the CPS, her research will focus on the ontology and epistemology of health and disease processes in medicine and epidemiology, especially the interplay between population data and the individual patient in the problem of overdiagnosis.