2024

Oswaldo Cruz Thesis Award 2024 - 1st place - Humanities and Social Sciences Area 

Title: Who consumes fake news consumes fake news?  The uses and meanings attributed to science and journalism in COVID-19-related channels on Telegram 

Student: Ana Carolina Pontalti Monari

Advisor: Igor Sacramento

Co-advisor: Hully Guedes Falcão

Compós 2024 Dissertation Award - Honorable Mention

Title: Science on television during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of vaccine coverage on Fantástico and Domingo Espetacular 

Student: Maíra Menezes Gondim

Advisor: Janine Cardoso

EBBC 2024 Master's Dissertation and Doctoral Thesis Award - Honorable Mention - 2nd place

Title: Information infrastructure at the intersection of health and law: expanding the diagnosis of judicialization in Brazil

Student: Jânio Gustavo Barbosa

Advisor: Maria Cristina Soares Guimarães

Co-advisor: Clênio Jair Schulze (National Council of Justice - CNJ)

13th IESS Award - 2nd place - Law Category 

Title: Information infrastructure at the intersection of health and law: expanding the diagnosis of judicialization in Brazil

Student: Jânio Gustavo Barbosa

Advisor: Maria Cristina Soares Guimarães

Co-advisor: Clênio Jair Schulze (National Council of Justice - CNJ)

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2023

Intercom Award for Communication Research - 1st place - Academic Master's

Title: When the Other Speaks for Itself: Gradient of Popular Participation in Communication Actions at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation During the Pandemic

Student: Luiza Gomes Henriques

Advisor: Inesita Soares de Araujo

Intercom Award for Communication Research - 3rd place - Doctorate

Title: 'Transversing the World': The National Day of Trans Visibility through the Lens of People, Campaigns, and News

Student: Tatiana Clebicar leite

Advisor: Katia Lerner

Co-advisor: Guilherme de Almedia

Oswaldo Cruz Award for Theses and Dissertations - 1st place - Doctorate - Area of Human and Social Sciences

Title: 'Transversing the World': The National Day of Trans Visibility through the Lens of People, Campaigns, and News

Student: Tatiana Clebicar leite

Advisor: Katia Lerner

Co-advisor: Guilherme de Almedia

Compós Award for Theses and Dissertations - Honorable Mention

Title: 'Transversing the World': The National Day of Trans Visibility through the Lens of People, Campaigns, and News

Student: Tatiana Clebicar leite

Advisor: Katia Lerner

Co-advisor: Guilherme de Almedia

Digital Transformation in Health Award 2023 - Ministry of Health - 1st place - Research, Development, and Innovations in Digital Transformation Category 

Title: Information infrastructure at the intersection of health and law: expanding the diagnosis of judicialization in Brazil

Student: Jânio Gustavo Barbosa

Advisor: Maria Cristina Soares Guimarães

Co-advisor: Clênio Jair Schulze (National Council of Justice - CNJ)

National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Information Science (ANCIB) Award 2023 - 1st place - Doctorate

Title: Information infrastructure at the intersection of health and law: expanding the diagnosis of judicialization in Brazil

Student: Jânio Gustavo Barbosa

Advisor: Maria Cristina Soares Guimarães

Co-advisor: Clênio Jair Schulze (National Council of Justice - CNJ)

Oswaldo Cruz Thesis and Dissertation Award - Honorable Mention - Humanities and Social Sciences Area

Title: Information infrastructure at the intersection of health and law: expanding the diagnosis of judicialization in Brazil

Student: Jânio Gustavo Barbosa

Advisor: Maria Cristina Soares Guimarães

Co-advisor: Clênio Jair Schulze (National Council of Justice - CNJ)

Thesis included as mandatory bibliography of the Federal Regional Court 1 and the National Council of Justice (CNJ).

Title: Information infrastructure at the intersection of health and law: expanding the diagnosis of judicialization in Brazil

Student: Jânio Gustavo Barbosa

Advisor: Maria Cristina Soares Guimarães

Co-advisor: Clênio Jair Schulze (National Council of Justice - CNJ)

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2021

Compós Award - Honorable Mention - Doctorate

Title: YouTube Yourself: Tracking the Sociotechnical Mediations in the Circulation of Documentaries on Obstetric Violence

Student: Daniela Muzi

Advisor: Janine Cardoso

Compós Award - Honorable Mention - Master's

Title: eHealth literacy among young people: exploratory study on the role of socioeconomic conditions in the use of health information on the Internet

Student: Nicole Fajardo Maranha Leão de Souza

Computer Game and Digital Entertainment Symposium (SBGames) Thesis and Dissertation Contest - 2nd place - Doctorate

Title: Is Health life? Symbolic Consumption in Digital Entertainment Games

Student: Flávia Garcia de Carvalho

Advisor: Inesita Soares de Araujo

Co-advisors: Marcelo Simão de Vasconcellos (COC) and Mata Haggis-Burridge (Breda University of Applied Sciences - Netherlands)

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2020

Oswaldo Cruz Prize for Theses and Dissertations - 1st place - Doctorate - Collective Health Area 

Title: Evaluation of the quality of information on health websites:  Evidence-based accuracy indicators for tuberculosis

Student: Rodolfo Paolucci Pimenta

Advisor: André de Faria Pereira Neto

Co-advisor: Paulo Nadanovsky

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2019

Oswaldo Cruz Thesis Award - 1st place - Doctorate - Area of Human and Social Sciences 

Title: The Symbolic Production of Poverty and the Poor:  State, Media, and Population

Student: Daniela Savaget Barbosa Rezende

Advisor: Inesita Soares de Araujo

Co-advisor: Katia Lerner

Oswaldo Cruz Thesis Award - Honorable Mention - PhD - Human and Social Sciences Area

Title: The Social Production of Meaning in Intercultural Communication and Health Processes: The Appropriation of Public Health Policies for Gypsies in Brazil and Portugal

Student: Aluízio de Azevedo Silva Júnior

Advisor: Inesita Soares de Araujo

Compós Thesis and Dissertation Award - 1st Place - PhD - Human and Social Sciences Category

Title: The Social Production of Meaning in Intercultural Communication and Health Processes: The Appropriation of Public Health Policies for Gypsies in Brazil and Portugal

Student: Aluízio de Azevedo Silva Júnior

Advisor: Inesita Soares de Araujo

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2018

Oswaldo Cruz Thesis Award - 1st place - Doctorate - Public Health Area 

Title: Drought, socio-environmental vulnerability, and health: impacts in the Brazilian Semi-Arid

Student: Aderita Sena

Advisor: Christovam Barcellos

Co-advisor: Carlos Machado

Oswaldo Cruz Thesis Award - 1st place - Doctorate - Area of Human and Social Sciences 

Title: Perception of Portuguese and Brazilian researchers in the Neurosciences field regarding the sharing of scientific articles and research data in green open access: costs, benefits, and contextual factors

Student: Viviane Veiga

Advisor: Cícera Henrique da Silva

Co-advisors: Paulo Roberto Borges and Maria Manoel Lopes de Figueiredo Costa Marques Borges

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2017

Oswaldo Cruz Thesis Award - Honorable Mention - PhD - Human and Social Sciences Area

Title: Communication and Madness: between contexts and mediations, the right to voice of the person with schizophrenia

Student: Carla Garcia

Advisor: Inesita Soares de Araujo

CAPES Thesis Award - Honorable Mention - Doctorate - Interdisciplinary Area

Title: Do good without looking to whom? Discursive Visibility and Invisibilities in the Donation of Medicines for Neglected Diseases

Student: Raquel Aguiar

Advisor: Inesita Soares de Araujo

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2016

Adelmo Genro Filho Award - PAGF 2016 - SBPJor - 1st place - Best Thesis

Title: Illness, a (also) journalistic notion: a cartographic study of the front-page news coverage of the weekly magazine Veja (1968-2014)

Student: Luiz Marcelo Robalinho Ferraz

Advisor: Katia Lerner

Co-advisor: Patrick Charaudeau