Q&A: The intersection of fertility, Zika, COVID-19, climate conditions, urbanicity and inequality

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).