Magda DimensteinisFull Professor in the Graduate Program in Psychology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and at the Federal University of Delta do Parnaíba (UFDPAR), both in Brazil. She holds a PQ1-A research productivity grant from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Graduated in Psychology from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), she holds Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC/RJ), and a PhD in Mental Health from the Institute of Psychiatry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She completed a Post-Doctorate in Mental Health at the Universidad Alcalá de Henares, Spain, and in Collective Health at the Graduate Program in Public Health at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Brazil. She works in the area of Collective Health with an emphasis on Mental Health, Primary and Psychosocial Care. She conducts research into social inequalities, ethnic-racial vulnerabilities, inequalities in health care and cultural care in mental health. She is a member of the research group Modes of Subjectivation, Public Policies and Contexts of Vulnerability at UFRN and of the working group Subjectivation Policies and the Invention of Everyday Life of the Brazilian National Association of Research and Graduate Studies in Psychology (ANPEPP).

Ana Carolina Rio SimoniisAssistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and in the Graduate Program in Psychology at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil. Graduated in Psychology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), she holds a Master's degree and a PhD in Education from UFRGS. She was coordinator of the State Policy on Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs in Rio Grande do Sul in 2014. She worked as a manager in the State Health Department of Rio Grande do Sul between 2011 and 2018, implementing the Psychosocial Care Network/Mental Health Care Line, Policies to Promote Equity in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and Permanent Health Education processes. She is a member of the research group Modes of Subjectivation, Public Policies and Contexts of Vulnerability at UFRN, and is editor-in-chief of the journalEstudos de Psicologia(Natal).