Rodrigo Carvalho de Menezes is a Family and Community Physician, Ph.D. in Human Pathology from the Federal University of Bahia/Fiocruz, and specialist in clinical research through the Global Clinical Scholars Research Training program at Harvard Medical School. He is a faculty member in research-oriented training at the Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health. He is currently a research fellow with the Regional Prospective Observational Research for Tuberculosis (RePORT)-International consortium, studying the impact of climate on tuberculosis epidemiology. He leads the Planetary Health and Science Ensemble (PHASE), an initiative that investigates climate–disease interactions.