Isabela Cabral Felix de Sousa is a Psychologist from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (1988), and a Ph.D. in International / Intercultural Education from the University of Southern California (1995). She is currently a Public Health researcher at the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health (EPSJV) and a professor in Biosciences and Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC) of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz). She coordinates, since 2014, the research group Comparative Studies in Scientific Training. She is also a researcher associate of the Interdisciplinary Group Migration Studies (NIEM).