April 2016
Fiocruz holds on May 5 and 6 two international seminars on bioethics and leprosy. The events are part of the WHO Global Health Ethics and WHO Global Health Histories series, organized by the Centre for Global Health Histories of the University of York and the World Health Organization (WHO). The lectures will be broadcast live on Internet.
The activities begin on May 5 with the presence of the president of the foundation, Paulo Gadelha, the director of COC, Paulo Elian, and the director of the Centre for Global Health Histories, University of York, Sanjoy Bhattacharya.
The Global Health Ethics seminar aims to be a forum in which researchers and public health professionals from different countries can try to find answers to important moral and ethical issues.
On May 6, the Global Health Histories seminar will discuss leprosy. The seminar brings together researchers and policy makers in order to discuss how the understanding of health history may help build a healthier future for all.
Information:
Date: Thursday and Friday, 05 and 06 May 2016
Time:9:30 pm
Venue: auditorium of Museu da Vida, at Fiocruz campus in Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro.
Leprosy in HCS-Manguinhos:
Cueto, Marcos and Puente, José Carlos de la Vida de leprosa:the testimony of a woman living with Hansen’s disease in the Peruvian Amazon, 1947. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2003, vol.10, suppl.1, p.337-360. ISSN 0104-5970
