Elize Massard da Fonseca

Elize Massard da Fonseca is an Associate Professor at the Sao Paulo Business School (EAESP/FGV), a leading public administration school in Brazil. She holds a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Edinburgh (UK, 2011) and a PhD in Public Health from the National School of Public Health (Brazil, 2008).

Her research spans social science, economics and public health, with a focus on the political economy of pharmaceutical regulation and health policies in Brazil.  She is currently working on (i) the emergence and consolidation of an ambitious set of policies to align health commitments with pharmaceutical industrial development in Brazil, and (ii) the political economy of pharmaceutical regulation in Latin America. She has also acted as a technical consultant for several United Nations agencies (UNODC, UNFPA, UN Women). She was a visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley, the London School of Economics and the University of Michigan.

Recent Publications

da Fonseca, E.M., Shadlen, K.C. and de Moraes Achcar, H., 2023. Vaccine technology transfer in a global health crisis: Actors, capabilities, and institutions. Research Policy, 52(4), p.104739.

Greer, S.L., King, E., Massard da Fonseca, E. and Peralta-Santos, A., 2021. Coronavirus politics: The comparative politics and policy of COVID-19 (p. 663). University of Michigan Press. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48284

Fonseca, E.M.D., Nattrass, N., Lazaro, L.L.B. and Bastos, F.I., 2021. Political discourse, denialism and leadership failure in Brazil’s response to COVID-19. Global public health, 16(8-9), pp.1251-1266.

da Fonseca, E.M., Shadlen, K.C. and Bastos, F.I., 2021. The politics of COVID-19 vaccination in middle-income countries: Lessons from Brazil. Social Science & Medicine, 281, p.114093.