Global Health Chronicles website.Date: 1984. Description: Some of the various aspects of the AIDS investigations carried out by the CDC Task Force on AIDS. Erskine L. Palmer, Ph.D., Supervisory Research Microbiologist, using electron microscope to identify viruses in tissues, body fluids, and other sample from AIDS patients. Source: AIDS Task Force slide book.
More on Global health in HCS-Manguinhos:
Covid-19 as no longer a global health emergency With this announcement, HCS-Manguinhos decided to end the Journal’s section “Testimonies Covid-19″, in which researchers reflected on the pandemic in their countries.id-19”,
Water and global health In the 1980s, the UN implemented two large projects to guarantee sanitation and clean water for the population. This article by Christian McMillen, Professor of the Department of History at the University of Virginia examines both programs.
Historical epidemiology in global health decision-making This article analyzes three examples of public health campaigns.
Reconsidering the peripheral in global health João Nunes (University of York) reviews this book considering its key contributions, which overall question commonly held assumptions about the origins and trajectory of international and global health.
What lessons does polio eradication offer for global health? Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Director of the Centre for Global Health Histories (University of York) has been featured in an online news article on polio eradication.
The odyssey of global health revisited A review of the book by Steven Palmer about the earlier years of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Fiocruz hosts international events on global health, ethics and leprosy 5-6 May 2016. Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro
Global Health Social Science This is an open access collaborative forum for anyone working in global health and using qualitative and participatory research methods. It aims to provide a space to share new resources and reflect on practice.
Global health ethics events to be broadcasted live The University of York is to collaborate with the Wellcome Trust and the WHO to produce a high-profile series of seminars examining key issues in global bioethics in October.
Global health has a history “Launching Global Health”, by Steven Palmer, illuminates the role played by international agencies in developing countries. Read the interview with the author.
The meaning(s) of global public health history The papers were prepared before the pandemic, but they are relevant to the moment, as Covid-19 challenges the common assumptions of transnational health.
Health Inequity during the Pandemic: A Cry for Ethical Global Leadership This open letter calls for a task force to be created by WHO to face the impact of the pandemic among already vulnerable populations worldwide, providing support to regional production of generic drugs, supplies and equipment.
Call for papers: workshop on global governance and accountability in Health Care This workshop is organized by a new network of scholars and invite those interested in thinking critically about the history of concepts and practices now closely associated with accountability in health care.
Global Public health and National Security: an historical perspective Patrick Zylberman analyzes the impact of war, religion and migration in global health.
Health in the global context Our first issue of 2015 features two dossiers discussing several vital topics for debate in contemporary global health.
Call for submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South The online journal Southern Spaces calls for essays, photo essays, original documentaries, and digital projects for a forthcoming series about the relationship between public health in and across the US and global South.
Slavery, Health and Disease Two articles published in the latest volume of HCS-Manguinhos (vol 30, 2023) explore issues related to slaves’ health and disease in eighteenth-century South America.
The post-pandemic future for the training of health professionals Inequality is a global problem that is particularly marked in the world’s poorest countries. The covid-19 pandemic exacerbated this historic problem in Latin America and the Caribbean. This study presents an overview of the subject and discusses some paths for the training of health professionals in Brazil.
One Health and new historical insights after pandemics The Congress takes place in Lisbon, on June 14-16, 2023, and in Braga, on June 19-20, 2023. To participate in the online sessions, it is necessary to register. Check the links for online access.
The rise of psychoanalysis in US hospitals, 1903-1937
Viruela y vacuna
Vol. 6 • n. 3 • Nov. 1999 – Feb. 2000
Becas de Investigación en la Universidad de Tulane
Women made visible: the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Portugal
Revisiting the Millennium Development Goals
Zika, social sciences and humanities
Symbol of hate raised in Charlottesville
Brazilian doctor appointed Assistant Director of PAHO
Vol. 15 • n. 3 • July/Sept. 2008
