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Student of the Medicine course at Bahiana is featured in a Forbes publication

Camila Verônica Souza Freire is a member of the Brazilian Group of Metascience and Evidence-Based Medicine.

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The medical student at Bahiana e integrante do Grupo Brasileiro de Metaciência e Medicina Baseada em Evidências, Camila Verônica Souza Freire, foi destaque em uma matéria do site da Forbes, graças à pesquisa "A thought experiment analyzing publication rates in the COVID-19 infodemic", desenvolvida em coautoria com Gabriel de Araújo Grisi e João de Deus Barreto Segundo, sob a orientação do professor Dr. Luís Cláudio Correia. 


Camila explains that, in the study, a metaphor was made, comparing the information epidemic with a biological one, through mathematical analysis, equating the study to a control. "This helps us to understand the behavior of the scientific ecosystem, assessing whether there is any type of “contagion” among authors, encouraging too much publication, since the volume of publications on the subject is very emphatic", explains the student. 

"However, some evidence shows that the volume of publications also raises concerns about the methodological quality of these studies, making it difficult, in the midst of an information epidemic, for us to be able to efficiently distinguish what are relevant works", declares Camila. She spoke with Andrew Wight, also a Forbes correspondent, about issues related to women's space in the world of research. Check out the full interview at: https://bit.ly/3B7aTHg.