According to Ted Brown, Professor Emeritus History and Public Health Sciences, the U.S. would lose access to massive amounts of international epidemic and endemic disease data.

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Professor Ted Brown examines some implications of the 2024 US Presidential election, such as the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

According to Unaids Data, people living globally with HIV/Aids rose from 39.5 million in 2022 to 39.9 million in 2023. At the same time, new HIV infections have dropped from 1.4 million to 1.3 million in the same years, as well as deaths from the disease.

El libro de Marcos Cueto, editor científico de HCS-Manguinhos, y Steven Palmer, profesor de la Universidad de Windsor (Canadá), presenta un profundo estudio histórico de la medicina en América Latina, desde su situación en el período colonial, hasta la actualidad.

In the editor’s letter of the new batch of articles of the 2024 edition of HCS-Manguinhos, scientific editor Marcos Cueto outlines the main activities undertaken by the journal’s team in the previous year.

The conference coincides with the bicentennial of German immigration to Southern Brazil and will address the complex relations between the two countries. Twenty-four researchers from Brazil, Germany, Spain, Israel, and Italy will come together to discuss topics such as ecology, vectors, health and the climate crisis, natural and social sciences, wars, refugees, and methodologies involving archives from both sides of the Atlantic.

El evento cuenta con dos invitados internacionales: Vivette García, editora de la Revista Tapuya y profesora en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y José Ragas, profesor en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

In 2024, the Journal História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos completes 30 years of uninterrupted publication, and, to celebrate them, we have prepared a special seminar to discuss important aspects of scientific publishing, such as open science, journal evaluation, and science communication.

This article, recently published in HoST— Journal of History of Science and Technology— demonstrates how sanitation was one of the many issues that led to heavy opposition to the operation of the Port of Rio de Janeiro at the end of the nineteenth century.