In 2020, then a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin and principal investigator of Decode Zika, Letícia Marteleto was leading a team interviewing 4,000 women in Pernambuco, the Brazilian state hit hardest by the Zika epidemic. When COVID-19 hit, the researchers began to interview women via phone instead of at their homes, and the project expanded into Decode Zika and Covid (DZC).

Marteleto is now the Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, a role she began in July.

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