The Drugs, Security and Democracy (DSD) SSRC Program provides support for research across a variety of disciplines—anthropology, sociology, criminology, history, political science, international relations, economics, journalism, public policy, legal studies, public health, and other related fields—to create a network of scholars interested in developing...

An author is considered to have committed self-plagiarism when he reuses his own previously published material, without making any reference to the earlier published work. By Ernesto Spinak.

On November 14, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz receives Jeremy Greene, M.D., Ph.D., from the Institute of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA).

Paul Gootenberg, author of ‘Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug’: “Repressive criminalizing have largely failed”

Countries facing severe shortages and poor distribution of health workers could benefit from training and deploying more mid-level health workers, such as midwives, nurses, medical assistants and surgical clinicians, according to a study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization today. In countries where such health workers have been deployed,...