GPIS is part of a research network that follows mental health and care relationships across the life cycle, from childhood to ageing, connecting the 2019 Rio Grande Birth Cohort with groups in the United Kingdom, Chile and Peru. The network combines longitudinal epidemiology with first-person home observation (wearable cameras) and analysis by artificial intelligence.
Three stages of life, three studies connected by the same network and the same methods of observation and analysis.
2019 Rio Grande Cohort
Pilot and data collection with wearable cameras in mother–child dyads, combining longitudinal epidemiology and first-person observation.
Lead: Christian Loret de Mola · FURG/GPIS
SMARTEENS
Smartphone use, emotional regulation and family interactions in adolescents.
Lead: Michael Pereira da Silva · FURG
Eco SARC
Interactions between older people and caregivers, and between grandparents and grandchildren: a new topic that brings the methods used in childhood to the geriatric context.
Lead in Peru: Fernando Runzer · UCSUR
Mirror study in Brazil: Rodrigo Meucci · FURG
Martins RC et al. The 2019 Rio Grande birth cohort profile. Epidemiol Health 2025;47:e2025039.
The network rests on four concrete mechanisms of joint work.
Microcoding methods, wearable cameras and AI analysis transferred between North and South and among countries of the South.
Filming protocols, interaction tasks and scales adapted to the reality of each Latin American country.
Longitudinal data from different cohorts analysed with comparable methods, to answer questions that a single study cannot.
The network serves as a platform for theses and dissertations in the graduate programmes involved, with mobility for students and researchers.
What we do with each partner institution.
Manchester Metropolitan University · United Kingdom
Universidad del Desarrollo · Chile
Universidad Científica del Sur · Peru
A collaboration under construction with Rebecca Pearson and the Manchester Metropolitan University team on the mental health of children, adolescents and families, bringing together longitudinal cohorts from the United Kingdom, Brazil and Chile.
The strands under discussion include doctoral training, mobility of students and researchers between institutions, workshops and courses in longitudinal analysis and mediation, and joint projects and publications. From Brazil, PPGSP/FURG and the 2019 Rio Grande Birth Cohort take part.
A multilateral project designed to bring the network together around wearable cameras and AI analysis, connecting Brazil, Chile, Peru and the United Kingdom.
A research group based at Universidad Científica del Sur, Peru. Christian Loret de Mola is also affiliated with CHANGE.
Where GPIS is rooted in Brazil and who it works with.
Rio Grande, Brazil
Brazil
Pelotas, Brazil
A research consultancy based in Pelotas (RS) that works on study design, data collection and statistical analysis. At GPIS, it is the partner responsible for fieldwork: it plans the logistics and collects the data for our studies.