Rafael Vieira, PH.D.

Dr. Rafael Vieira is currently an Assistant Professor of One Health in the Department of Public Health Sciences and CIPHER at UNC Charlotte. He completed his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) at Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE), Veterinary Residency in Laboratory Diagnostics at São Paulo State University (UNESP), Masters at the Federal University of Parana (UFPR), and his PhD at Londrina State University (UEL), Brazil. Dr. Vieira is the PI of several research training capacity building projects, and he is engaged in research and teaching focuses on ticks and tick-borne diseases and One Health. Over the last 11 years his research has focused on zoonotic diseases, with emphasis in the epidemiology of vector-borne and transboundary infectious diseases, One Health, molecular detection and characterization of novel hemotropic Mycoplasma and Anaplasmataceae species and evaluation and validation of diagnostic tests for zoonotic infectious diseases. His research summary includes more than 100 peer-reviewed publications on Medline and Scopus databases. His professional goal is to apply his background to approach global health issues at the human-animal-environment interface from a One Health perspective, with a special focus on vector-borne and zoonotic diseases.