Rodrigo Curty Pereira

PhD Candidate
Rodrigo Curty Pereira

Rodrigo Curty Pereira is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. He is a member of the Water Collaborative Program, in which he investigates the role of civil society organizations collaborating with communities to create solutions to inequities in access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) in Brazil.

Rodrigo has a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, which influences his interest in global health, alongside his specialization in health geography and research work in health inequities, vaccine distribution, and funding for global health research. 

He currently works as a sessional instructor at the University of Waterloo, designing and delivering both graduate and undergraduate courses in global health and the geography of pandemics.

Rodrigo is passionate about research that promotes health equity globally and has received several awards for academic excellence, including the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, the Marzieh Foroutan Memorial Graduate Scholarship, the David Johnston International Experience Award, and the Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship. 

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Ph.D. candidate

Why GoHelP: 

"The GoHelP lab is a community. Everyone is welcome here and all experiences and ideas are valued. I chose to be a part of this research group because I admired everyone who was a part of it, and I felt like they were willing to support me. This has been true throughout every step of my academic journey here."

Publications

  • Curty Pereira, R., Elliott, S. J., & Llaguno Cárdenas, P. (2023). Stepping into the Void: Lessons Learned from Civil Society Organizations during COVID-19 in Rio de Janeiro. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20085507
  • Curty Pereira, R. (2022). Political economy of south-south relations: an analysis of BRICS’ investment protection agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean. Third World Quarterly.
  • Curty, R. (2021). The other side of the renminbi: applying Robert Cox’s Critical Theory to the China-Latin American relations. Revista NEIBA, 10, 1-17. doi:https://doi.org/10.12957/neiba.2021.58881
  • Curty Pereira, R., & Garcia, A. (2021). The critical theory of Robert W. Cox as a method for analyzing the relations between China and Latin America. Oikos, 20(2), 184-201. 
  • Garcia Saggioro, A., Curty, R., Aguiar, A. C., Rezende, L., & Dantas, M. V. (2021). The BRICS facing the COVID-19 pandemic: a preliminary analysis of compared policies. Conjuntura Internacional(2), 33-46. doi: https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1809-6182.2020v17n3p33-46
  • Brisbois, B., Plamondon K., Walugembe, D., Curty, R., Edet, C., Dixon, J., Habibi, R., Karamouzian, M., Labonte, R., Murthy, S., and Ravitsky, V. (2023). “Pandemics, intellectual property and ‘our economy’: A worldview analysis of Canada’s role in compromising global access to COVID-19 vaccines.” Global Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2024.2335360
  • Plamondon, K., Dixon, J., Brisbois, B., Curty, R., Bisung, E., Elliott, S., Graham, I., Ndube-Eyoh, S., Nixon, S., and Shahram, S. (2023). “Turning the tide on inequity through Systematic Equity Action-Analysis.” BMC Public Health 23, no. 1 (May 15, 2023): 890. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15709-5 
  • Saggioro Garcia, A., and Curty, R. (2022). “Political economy of South-South relations: an analysis of BRICS’ investment protection agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Third World Quarterly 44, no. 1 (January 2, 2023): 57–75. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2128328 
  • Saggioro Garcia, A., and Curty, R. (2022). “Economic relations between China and Latin America and the Caribbean: An analysis of their investment protection agreements” Carta Internacional 17, no. 1 (2022): e1183. https://doi.org/10.21530/ci.v17n1.2022.1183
  • Neves, Márcia Angelica F.S., Nery, I., Santos Corrêa, D.,  Curty, R. and Juliana Cordeiro Silva. (2018). “A proposal of integration between teaching, extension, and research: raising environmental awareness towards the correct disposal of used kitchen oil” Revista Práxis 10, no. 20 (2018): 129-136. http://revistas.unifoa.edu.br/index.php/praxis/article/view/1404/2231

Presentations

  • Dixon, Jenna, Katrina Plamondon, Rodrigo Curty Pereira, Abraham Nunbogu, and Shaheer Khan. 2021. “Is equity on the funding landscape? An analysis of the ways in which funding policies and practices shape equitable partnerships in global health.” Presented at the 2021 Canadian Conference on Global Health: Rethinking Partnership Paradigms in Global Health, Ottawa, November 25-26, 2021.
  • Curty Pereira, Rodrigo, and Susan J. Elliott. 2021. “Stepping into the void: Civil society partnerships for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic among WaSH-deprived populations in Rio de Janeiro.” Presented at the 2021 Canadian Conference on Global Health: Rethinking Partnership Paradigms in Global Health, Ottawa, November 25-26, 2021.

  • Curty Pereira, Rodrigo, and Ana Saggioro Garcia. 2021. “Economia política das relações Sul-Sul: uma análise dos acordos de proteção de investimentos dos BRICS na América Latina e Caribe.” Presented at the 8th Meeting of the Brazilian Association of International Relations: Relações Internacionais e Ciência na Era das Pandemias: Olhares transdisciplinares sobre desafios globais, online meeting, Brazil, July 26-30, 2021.

    Title in English: Political economy of South-South relations: an analysis of the international investment agreements of the BRICS in Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Curty Pereira, Rodrigo, and Susan J. Elliott. 2021. “No house, no sink, no water: effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations with no access to water in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.” Presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers 71st Annual Meeting and Conference - Embracing connectivity: Coming together and moving forward, Prince George, BC, June 7-11, 2021.
  • Curty Pereira, Rodrigo, and Susan J. Elliott. 2021. “The river with no water: inequalities in access to water in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Presented at the American Association of Geographers 2021 Annual Meeting, Seattle, April 7-11, 2021.
  • Curty Pereira, Rodrigo, and Susan J. Elliott. 2021. “Troubled waters: health inequalities in water-deficient populations in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Presented at the 10th Mapping the Global Dimensions of Policy: Building Beyond Uncertainty, McMaster University Department of Political Science, Hamilton, ON, March 11-13, 2021.
  • Curty Pereira, Rodrigo. 2020. “China in Latin America and the Caribbean: Overcoming dependency or promoting new forms of dominance?” Presented at Simpori 2020 - A (re)estrutura da ordem internacional: um novo mundo em emergência e de emergências, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 25-27, 2020

Awards

  • Rodrigo was the first recipient of the Marzieh (Mari) Foroutan Memorial Graduate Scholarship in 2021. 
  • David Johnston International Experience Award