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Tiago Hyra Rodrigues is a professor of social anthropology and a co-organiser of the Activism, Resistance and Conflict Research Group (NUPARC) at Vila Velha University, Brazil.

For the last two decades, he has been carrying out research on social problems prevention, harm reduction, and risky behavior prevention. He carried out his PhD at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2011) on violence prevention, discussing how NGOs based in favelas try to prevent young people from engaging in crime and drug trafficking.

He was a post-doctoral researcher at CADIS - Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques, in Paris, France (2016-17), and later at CEBRAP – The Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (2017-20) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, researching preventive approaches to social and health problems derived from Harm Reduction in both countries.

His ethnographic and comparative research seeks to investigate the interventions, institutions, discourses, and social technologies carried out by a wide range of associations, public policies, government institutions, NGOs, and other forms of collective action aimed at preventing drug abuse and drug trafficking through a Harm Reduction perspective.

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