Professor Jaqueline Goes is appointed Ambassador of Science in Brazil

The former student and current professor and researcher at Bahiana, Dr. Jaqueline Goes, a biomedical scientist internationally recognized for coordinating the mapping of the Covid-19 genome, was recently appointed Science Ambassador in Brazil. Working, since last year, as a collaborator in the Directorate of Popularization of Science, Technology and Scientific Education of the Secretariat of Science and Technology for Social Development (SEDES), she has assumed a crucial role in the fight for access to Science for the entire population Brazilian.

“I am certain that we have a lot to do for the Popularization of Science in Brazil and I am very happy to be able to contribute. In fact, everyone's contribution is welcome! I am open to suggestions of ideas and proposals to bring more Science to the four corners of Brazil”, said Jaqueline on her Instagram profile. Another objective of biomedicine is to encourage women, especially black women, to enter the academic and scientific field so that they can become increasingly prominent and occupy leadership positions.

Currently, in addition to teaching the Biomedicine course, Jaqueline Goes is a researcher at the Research and Innovation Center at Bahiana and leader of the Genomic Research and Microbiology of Emerging Pathogens Group (GEMIPE). Coordinates the Collaborative Genetic Sequencing Network in Brazil – Rede SEQV Br, which consists of a collaborative study of genetic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazilian capitals, in a partnership between the University of São Paulo and the Women of Brazil Group. Last year, she was honored as a Barbie Role Model, by Mattel, in the Heroine Scientists category, with a doll created in her likeness, as a symbol of representation for children, especially black children, in addition to several tributes in recognition of her scientific and in defense of health and the Unified Health System in Brazil.