- President – Global Manufacturing Research Group – 2021- Present
- President-Elect – Global Manufacturing Research Group – 2020-2021
- Most downloaded paper – all times – “Conducting Systematic Literature Reviews in Operations Management” (with Felipe Scavarda and Annibal Scavarda) – Production Planning and Control: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showMostCitedArticles?journalCode=tppc20
- 2018 Most Downloaded Papers Award (with Ferrer, A.L. and Scavarda, A.J.) Resource, Conservation and Recycling.
- Elected member of the Executive Secretariat of the Brazilian Partnership for Tuberculosis Control, Ministry of Health, biennium 2005-2006.
- Special Advisor on Reproductive Health to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, conferred by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission – ECOSOC, New York, 2005-2014.
- Chair, Plenary on Male Condom Technology, Annual Meeting of the North American Public Health Association (APHA), 1993.
- Chairman of the Ad hoc Committee for the Analysis of Proximate Fertility Determinants, Brazilian Association of Population Studies (ABEP, 1983 1984).
- Member of the Advisory team of the Brazilian Group of Parliamentarians for the Study of Population and Development (1983-1984).