Greice Bezerra Viana

My name is Greice Viana, and I was born in Bahia, in north-eastern Brazil. My academic career began at the Federal University of Bahia, where I studied Social Sciences and conducted research on rural life in Brazilian cinema and on the visibility of women's work in the countryside, in dialogue with riverside communities in the Middle São Francisco region. Since then, I have been working as a sociologist in constant dialogue with anthropology, developing research on gender, collective health, social cartography, memory, and territorial conflicts, always in dialogue with traditional communities — quilombolas, riverside communities, and communities in the hinterland and pastureland — as well as with urban collectives.

I worked as an assistant researcher on the international ECLIPSE project, focused on the ethnographic monitoring of neglected diseases. In my PhD in Social Sciences at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, I defended the thesis À flor da pele: experiências de cuidado de mulheres em comunidades rurais no Baixo Sul da Bahia (2025) [On the surface: experiences of care for women in rural communities in the Southern Bahia Lowlands], which investigated the links between gender and care based on the narratives of women who experience Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in territories where the disease is endemic. The study revealed how, in the absence of effective public policies and treatments that are inadequate for the local reality, these women mobilise care networks and build practices of resistance.

Currently, I conduct research on gender policies and mapping socio-environmental conflicts, expanding the dialogue between public health, social organisation, and territorial struggles. In different projects, I have mediated the production of maps, books, and participatory methodologies, understanding them as tools for exchange and strengthening community voices. At CHaI, I seek to deepen dialogues on cultural experiences of care and health, in addition to sharing methodologies that value community leadership in the production of knowledge. 

Email: greicevianab@gmail.com

Affiliation: Federal University of Bahia