The SPARK study is a CIHR-funded national study that was birthed out of the lack of data on social determinants of health in primary care settings in Canada. Healthcar...
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Dr. Thiago Trindade is doing his postdoctoral fellowship at Upstream Lab. He holds a PhD and MSc degrees in epidemiology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil. At Upstream Lab, Dr. Trindade is working on research projects that aim to assess interventions on Social Determinants of Health in primary care settings in Canada, Brazil, and Latin America. He is a practicing family physician and family therapist and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte/Brazil. He is also an International Faculty of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a former president of the Brazilian Society of Family and Community Medicine. His works focus on teaching and researching in Family and Community Medicine (MD program, residency program and master program), Primary Health Care, Clinical Epidemiology, Medical Education, and Global Health.