Bruno Ramos Gomes
Bruno Ramos Gomes is a Brazilian psychologist, with Master’s degree in Public Health at the School of Public Health-USP, and a PhD in Public Health at University of Campinas, Brazil. In his masters, he researched the use of ayahuasca in the recovery of homeless people and drug users. In his PhD, he did a 12 month qualitative follow-up of patients treating drug dependence and depression. He has been helping patients integrate ibogaine and ayahuasca in their therapeutic processes for the last 15 years. Bruno is also an initiate of the Fang Bwiti and Mboumba Eyano Bwiti, working at the intersection of Iboga initiations for Westerners in Brazil since 2019. He is the author of two books: The Ritual Use of Ayahuasca in the Recovery of Homeless People and Iboga and Ibogaine in Brazil: Contemporary Use of an Ancestral Plant — both currently available in Portuguese. He is an Affiliate Researcher at the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines.