{"id":1351,"date":"2026-05-19T08:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.ins.gov.mz\/?page_id=1351"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:02:23","slug":"eduardo-samo-gudo-jr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.ins.gov.mz\/en\/sobre\/direccao-geral\/eduardo-samo-gudo-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduardo Samo Gudo Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1216.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 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class=\"person-author-wrapper\"><span class=\"person-name\">Eduardo Samo Gudo Jr.<\/span><span class=\"person-title\">Director-General<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person-content fusion-clearfix\">Graduated in General Medicine from Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique (2003), PhD in Immunology and Virology from Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Brazil (2012).<\/p>\n<p>Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015) and Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018) in Emerging Viral Diseases from the European Foundation Initiative into African Neglected Tropical Diseases in Germany.<br \/>\nHis research areas are Emerging Diseases and Climate Change. He has over 100 publications indexed in international scientific journals.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of the World Health Organization - WHO\/AFRO Expert Panel for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and Syphilis in the African region (2016-2017), Member of the Governing Council of the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (2012 \u2013 2016), Chairperson of the Africa CDC Regional Committee for the SADC Region (2022 \u2013 2023), Member of the National Immunization Expert Committee (2010 \u2013 2018).<\/p>\n<p>Currently, he is a member of the Technical-Scientific Committee on Climate Change (2023 \u2013 present), Executive Board Member of the Lancet Commission on Climate Change (2023 \u2013 present), Chair of the Africa CDC Advisory Board (2023 \u2013 present), Board Member of the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (2023 \u2013 present), Member of the WHO Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) (2024 \u2013 present), Member of the WHO Health Systems for Climate Change Policy Working Group (2023 \u2013 present).<\/p>\n<p>Between 2010 and 2014, he was Head of the Network of Laboratories and Reference Services Department at INS, from 2014 to 2018 he was Scientific Director of INS, and from 2018 to 2023 he was Deputy Director-General of INS.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1216.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:50px;width:100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":950,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1351","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.ins.gov.mz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.ins.gov.mz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.ins.gov.mz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.ins.gov.mz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.ins.gov.mz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.ins.gov.mz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.ins.gov.mz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1351\/revisions\/1702"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.ins.gov.mz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.ins.gov.mz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}