Mendes Constante, Helena, Dr

Dr Helena Mendes Constante (she/her)

Department of Sociological Studies

Research Associate

H.M.Constante@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Helena Mendes Constante
Department of Sociological Studies
The Wave
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Profile

Helena’s research interest has been in mapping inequities in health and healthcare outcomes. She has recently focused her work on ways to dismantle structural oppression by studying how intersecting forms of marginalisation affect intersectional groups.

She joined the Department as a Research Associate in 2023 to work on the project “Storying Life Courses for Intersectional Inclusion: Ethnicity and Wellbeing Across Time and Place” funded under the ESRC’s Inclusive Ageing programme (PI: Professor Majela Kilkey).

Helena holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health from University College London (UCL, 2019) and an MSc in Public Health from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC/Brazil, 2014). After her PhD, she was awarded two consecutive Fellowships funded by the two main research funders in Brazil (CAPES and CNPq). The projects she wrote aimed to measure intersectional inequities in health services using a multilevel approach to understand injustices in the care context.

She also worked for the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ/Brazil) as a Data Analyst for two years, and in three UCL Departments (Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Political Science Department, and Institute of Neurology) as a PGTA teaching statistics to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Research interests

Inequities in health and healthcare

Helena is interested in understanding racial and ethnic inequities in health and healthcare outcomes. While Brazil, as a country, categorised its population according to racial groups, she wrote a project entitled ‘Racial inequalities in health and dental service utilisation: exploring the role of lifestyle and perceived discrimination among a sample of Brazilian population’ and was granted a Research Fellowship by the Ministry of Education in Brazil - CAPES.

Using an intersectionality approach to social and health outcomes

Helena has a particular interest in mapping injustices in social and health outcomes to drive policies to improve the lives of people lying at the intersection of multiple axes of inequality. Mainly focusing on interlocking systems of oppression that operate from macro- to micro-levels of contemporary societies. She wrote a project entitled ‘Inequity, intersectionality and utilisation of health services: mapping the margins in a representative sample of Brazil’ and was granted a Research Fellowship by one of the country’s biggest research funders - CNPq.

Mapping intersectional life course of inclusion/exclusion and wellbeing

Helena is also interested in understanding how inclusion and wellbeing are distributed across the intersections of social characteristics and how contextual and life course characteristics may play a role in this relationship. She is currently part of an interdisciplinary team working on a project funded under the ESRC’s Inclusive Ageing programme. The project`s PI is Professor Majella Kilkey, and Helena is part of the quantitative team working alongside Dr Daniel Holman, Professor Matthew Bennett, and Professor Mark Green (University of Liverpool).

Publications

Journal articles

Nath S, Sethi S, Bastos JL, Constante HM, Mejia G, Haag D, Kapellas K & Jamieson L (2023) . Caries Research, 57(4), 485-508.
Bastos JL, Fleming E, Haag DG, Schuch HS, Jamieson LM & Constante HM (2023) . Journal of Dental Research, 102(10), 1080-1087.
Bomfim RA, Constante HM & Cascaes AM (2023) . JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY, 83(1), 101-107.
Cascaes AM, Constante HM, Vaz JDS, Ferreira de Mello ALS & Bomfim RA (2023) . Gerodontology, 40(1), 127-134.
Bastos JL, Constante HM, Schuch HS, Haag DG, Nath S, Celeste RK, Guarnizo-Herreño CC, McCallum MJ & Jamieson LM (2022) . Systematic Reviews, 11(1).
Bastos JL, Constante HM, Schuch HS, Haag DG & Jamieson LM (2022) . Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 82(S1), 16-27.
Bastos JL, Constante HM, Schuch HS, Haag DG, Nath S, Celeste RK, Guarnizo-Herreño CC, McCallum MJ & Jamieson LM (2022) . Systematic Reviews, 11(1).
Bastos JL, Constante HM & Jamieson LM (2021) . Community Dental Health, 38(2), 132-137.
Bastos JL, Constante HM & Jamieson LM (2021) . EClinicalMedicine, 34, 100816-100816.
Constante HM & Bastos JL (2021) . International Journal of Health Services, 51(2), 155-166.
Padilha ACL, Constante HM, Fronza HP & Coto NP (2021) . Dental Traumatology, 37(1), 53-57.
Bastos JL, Constante HM, Celeste RK, Haag DG & Jamieson LM (2020) . European Journal of Oral Sciences, 128(6), 459-466.
Constante HM (2020) . Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 48(4), 302-308.
Constante H, Tsakos G & Watt R (2018) . European Journal of Public Health, 28(suppl_1).
Paganelli APD, Constante HM, Sala FS, Bainha CC, Borges Jr ÁLS, Bastos JL & Peres MA (2018) . International Dental Journal, 68(1), 47-53.
Constante HM, Peres MA, Schroeder FC & Bastos JL (2016) . European Journal of Oral Sciences, 124(1), 62-67.
Mendes Constante H, Leite Souza M, Bastos JL & Peres MA (2015) . International Journal of Epidemiology, 44(suppl_1), i77-i77.
Constante HM, Souza ML, Bastos JL & Peres MA (2014) . International Dental Journal, 64(4), 181-186.
Constante HM, Bastos JL, Peres KG & Peres MA (2012) . Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 40(6), 498-506.
Constante HM, Bastos JL & Peres MA (2010) Trends in dental caries in 12- and 13-year-old schoolchildren from Florianópolis between 1971 and 2009. Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences, 9(3), 410-414.
Bastos JL, Constante HM, Schuch HS, Haag DG & Jamieson LM () . American Journal of Epidemiology.
Constante HM, Bastos JL & Ruiz MA () . Ethnicity & Health, 1-15.
Nath S, Sethi S, Bastos JL, Constante HM, Kapellas K, Haag D & Jamieson LM () . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(3), 1390-1390.
Constante HM, Marinho GL & Bastos JL () . Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 26(9), 3981-3990.
Schroeder FC, Bastos JL, Constante HM, Kovaleski DF, Boing AF & Freitas SFT () . Pesquisa Brasileira em Odontopediatria e Clínica Integrada, 17(1), 1-12.

Conference proceedings papers

Constante H, Tsakos G & Watt R (2018) Racial inequalities in dental service utilisation amongst middle-aged Brazilian adults: a multilevel approach. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, Vol. 28 (pp 147-147)
Constante HM, Tsakos G & Watt RG (2017) . SSM annual scientific meeting 2017