Interview with Naomar Monteiro de Almeida Filho (by Boaventura de Sousa Santos)
Interview with Naomar Monteiro de Almeida Filho and Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Naomar Monteiro de Almeida Filho: is a physician. He is a full professor in Epidemiology at the Public Health Institute of the Federal University of Bahia and its former rector. In 2013, Prof. Naomar de Almeida Filho was appointed Rector pro tempore of the new Federal University of Southern Bahia (Ufesba). He has been a visiting professor at various universities in the world lecturing on issues related to the epidemiology of mental disorders, particularly the effect of race, racism, gender and social class on mental health.
In recent years has focused his academic research on studies of the university and its relationship with society, as stressed in the e following books: New University: Universidade Nova: Textos Críticos e Esperançosos (Brasilia: UnB, 2007), Memorial da Universidade Nova: UFBA 2002-2010 (Salvador: Edufba, 2010), co-authored with Boaventura Sousa Santos, A Universidade no Século XXI: Para uma Universidade Nova (Coimbra: Almedina, 2008), and co-authored with Fernando Seabra Santos, A Quarta Missão da Universidade (Coimbra: University of Coimbra, 2012).
