Helena M. Constante, PhD
Epidemiologist | Data Analyst
Teaching experience
Guest Lecturer at University College London (May 2020, 2022)
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Ethnicity, Migration, and Health module offered by the Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care to their MSc students. Module leader: Dr Milagros Ruiz.
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Guest Lecturer at Federal University of Santa Catarina (2020)
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Racial inequities in oral health session for a group of health care professionals registered in the Multiprofessional Residency in Family Health. Module leader: Prof Daniela Carcereri
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Teaching Assistant for Q-step programme at University College London (2017, 2018)
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Seminar leader for the practical sessions using R for groups of students (BA Geography, BSc Philosophy, Politics & Economics, BSc Population Health, BSc in Social Sciences) every week for two modules (Data Analysis, and Advanced Topics in Data Science). Module leaders: Dr Maria Sironi, Prof James Cheshire​, Dr Stephen Jivraj, Dr Tom O'Grady.
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Teaching Assistant for the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London (2017, 2018)
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Seminar leader on specific sessions and supported colleagues in other sessions during a 9-week course on Basic Statistics for Medical Sciences for MSc Population Health students. Module leader: Prof Hynek Pikhart
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Workshop leader in the Institute of Neurology at UCL (2017, 2018)
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Seminar leader on a 2-hour workshop on Statistics with Stata for their MSc students. Module leader: Dr Saiful Islam
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Teaching Assistant at University College London (2017, 2018)
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Assisted Guest Lecturers and support students in their practical sessions using R, Stata, and SPSS on a 6-weeks course entitled Research Methods for Quantitative Data. The module was open to all PhD students registered at UCL. Assisted the module leader with administrative work. Module leader: Dr Paola Zaninotto
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Tutor of an online course sponsored by the Brazilian Ministry of Health (2014)
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One-year specialisation in Primary health care (UNASUS-PROVAB)
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Main lecturer for over 30 healthcare professionals about the Brazilian health system (SUS) and topics related to public health (Social Sciences, Epidemiology, and Policy).
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Teaching Internship in the Department of Public Health UFSC/Brazil (2012 - 2014)
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Epidemiology and biostatistics course for 2nd-year Dentistry students.
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Gave three lecturers (every six months) on introduction to sampling, normal distribution, confidence interval; hypothesis test; types of variables, data organisation, graphical presentation, measures of central tendency and dispersion.
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Accompanied the students in their field activities at healthcare centres, in order for them to apply pre-established questionnaires.
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Assisted the main lecturer on administrative work, planning and marking essays and assignments, and assisted other lecturers in their activities
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Worked under the supervision of Dr João Luiz Bastos
Supervisor of tutors in an online course sponsored by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice (2013)
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Five-months course focus to teaching community leaders and the general public about the Brazilian national drug prevention programme.
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Main lecturer for 15 tutors, each responsible for 100 students, about the public policies on drug prevention, and how to connect and teach students via an online platform.
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Teaching Internship in the Department of Public Health UFSC/Brazil (2012)
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A six-month course for 3rd-year Dentistry students.
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Taught practical sessions on how to write and present a report on their experience with the public health care system.
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Accompanied the students in their field activities at targeted neighbourhoods.
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Assisted the main lecturer on administrative work.
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Worked under the supervision of Prof. Marco Aurélio Peres
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