André Felipe Cândido da Silva
Member Bio
André Felipe Cândido da Silva is a researcher in the history of science, medicine, and environment at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz in Rio de Janeiro, a center devoted to research, teaching, documentation, and communication in the history of health and science. He is also a professor for the Graduate Program for History of Science and Health at the same institution.
André’s research interests lie at the intersection of history of science, medical, and environmental history and his studies, published in articles and book chapters, comprise the history of the life sciences in twentieth century Brazil, with a particular focus on the knowledge circulation involving Brazil, Germany, and the United States. He also focuses on the history of ecological knowledge derived from medical and agricultural investigations and the relations between health, ecology, and development projects in Brazil in the time period following the Second World War. Silva is currently coordinating a research project on the history of international scientific cooperation on the Amazonia ecology in the Great Acceleration, in which he focuses on a German-Brazilian network devoted to tropical ecology.
