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.

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.

Este trabajo examina cómo las variaciones en la estatura y la salud de los mexicanos son un reflejo de la evolución de la desigualdad económica.

En el artículo Intervencionismo obstétrico y maternalización de las mujeres en la atención del parto en Uruguay, 1920-1940, la investigadora Natalia Magnone de la Universidad de la República del Uruguay aportó nuevas miradas para entender por qué el modelo de asistencia al parto es intervencionista sobre los cuerpos de las personas gestantes.

The film “Human milk banks feeding babies” shows how an initiative launched by the Fernandes Figueira Institute (IFF/Fiocruz) more than 80 years ago became the embryo of the Brazilian Network of Human Milk Banks. Watch the film and access our articles about the IFF’s centenary!