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.

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.