Debora Diniz

Debora Diniz Rodrigues (known as Debora Diniz), is an anthropologist and law professor at the University of Brasília, and a co-founder and researcher at Anis: Institute for Bioethics.

Her research projects focus on bioethics, feminism, human rights and health.

[1][2][3] By 2016, Diniz had received about 90 awards, including scientific and academic awards for her films at festivals, including the Fred L. Soper Award for Excellence in Public Health Literature, the Pan American Health Organization, in 2012, for the publication of her National Abortion Survey.

[5] Her research found that one in five Brazilian women had an abortion by age 40.

[6] In 2017 she published Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat (Zed Books).