Afya Limited, operating through its subsidiaries, is a prominent medical education provider in Brazil. The company delivers a comprehensive array of educational products and services primarily focused on the medical field, encompassing medical schools, preparatory courses for medical residency, advanced graduate studies, and various other programs tailored for medical professionals at all career stages. These offerings are available across its proprietary network and are also extended to external medical institutions. Beyond traditional education, Afya also offers digital health services through a subscription-based platform, accessible via a mobile app and website. This platform is specifically designed to assist healthcare practitioners and students with clinical decision-making by providing essential tools such as medical calculators, reference charts, up-to-date content, prescription guidance, clinical scoring systems, details on medical procedures, and laboratory examination information. While strong in medicine, Afya's educational portfolio spans a broader spectrum of health sciences, including dentistry, nursing, radiology, psychology, pharmacy, physical education, physiotherapy, nutrition, and biomedicine. Furthermore, the company extends its academic offerings beyond healthcare to include undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs in diverse subjects like business administration, accounting, law, civil engineering, industrial engineering, and pedagogy. The company further enhances its educational ecosystem by providing specialized postgraduate medical programs, both printed and digital educational materials, an online medical learning platform, and hands-on medical training opportunities. As of December 31, 2021, Afya maintained an extensive network of 46 undergraduate and graduate medical school campuses, which included 30 operational undergraduate units and five approved units. This infrastructure supported a total capacity of 2,731 medical school seats, with 2,481 actively operating and an additional 278 seats approved for future use. Established in 1999, Afya Limited is headquartered in Nova Lima, Brazil.
Sector: Services-Educational Services
Industry: Education & Training Services
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based on 88.48M shares outstanding
BRAfya Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates as a medical education group in Brazil.
It offers educational products and services, including medical schools, medical residency preparatory courses, graduate courses, and other programs to lifelong medical learners enrolled across its distribution network, as well as to third-party medical schools.
The company also provides digital health services, such as subscription-based mobile app and website portal that focuses on assisting health professionals and students with clinical decision-making through tools, such as medical calculators, charts, and updated content, as well as prescriptions, clinical scores, medical procedures and laboratory exams, and others.
It offers health sciences courses, which comprise medicine, dentistry, nursing, radiology, psychology, pharmacy, physical education, physiotherapy, nutrition, and biomedicine; and degree programs and courses in other subjects and disciplines, including undergraduate and post graduate courses in business administration, accounting, law, civil engineering, industrial engineering, and pedagogy.
In addition, the company provides medical postgraduate specialization programs; printed and digital content; and an online medical education platform and practical medical training services. As of December 31, 2021, it operated a network of 46 undergraduate and graduate medical school campuses consisted of 30 undergrad operating units and five approved units; and a network of 2,731 medical school seats that consisted of 2,481 operating seats and 278 approved seats.
The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Nova Lima, Brazil.
Julio Eduardo Razente de Angeli
Vice President of Continuing Education & Innovation
Luis Andre Carpintero Blanco
Chief Financial Officer
Renata Couto
Investor Relations Executive Manager
Virgilio Deloy Capobianco Gibbon
Chief Executive Officer
Employees
5K+
Country
BR
Sector
Consumer Defensive
Website
afya.com.br
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based on 88.48M shares outstanding
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60d Avg
362.70K
90d Avg
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