# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/celina-maria-turchi-martelli
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:50:48.960Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/celina-maria-turchi-martelli"
name: "Celina Maria Turchi Martelli"
slug: "celina-maria-turchi-martelli"
description: "Celina Maria Turchi Martelli is a Brazilian epidemiologist, graduated by Federal University of Goiás and researcher at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz in Recife. She first associated the link between zika virus and microcephaly in newborn babies during the 2015 disease outbreak in Brazil; she was listed by Nature magazine as one of the 10 most notable people in science in 2016, and by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2017."
tagline: "Brazilian epidemiologist, researcher and university teacher"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Celina_Turchi_-_Sess%C3%A3o_Especial_-_125_anos_Fiocruz_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Celina_Turchi_-_Sess%C3%A3o_Especial_-_125_anos_Fiocruz_%28cropped%29.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952-07-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.58
  momentum:             1.208053691275168
  historical:           7.206012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Celina Turchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "سيلينا تورتشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celina_Turchi"
    title: "Celina Turchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celina_Turchi"
    title: "Celina Turchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celina_Turchi"
    title: "Celina Turchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celina_Turchi"
    title: "Celina Turchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celina_Turchi"
    title: "Celina Turchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D1%80%D1%87%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Турчи, Селина"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump