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Medicine Within Borders: India’s Response to COVID-19

Historian of Medicine Vivek Neelakantan argues that the pandemic has revealed fault lines in Indian administration, especially impacting the lives of migrant laborers or the substantial Muslim minority.

COVID-19 en España: crisis sanitaria e incertidumbre social

Rafael Huertas, profesor en el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas de Madrid, reflexiona sobre distintos aspectos del inicio de la pandemia en España, como la respuesta asistencial y el confinamiento como fenómeno sociológico.

Media, politics and health: An Interview with Daniel Hallin

In the book Making Health Public, published in 2016, political communication scholar Daniel Hallin and Anthropologist Charles Briggs examine news coverage of health issues in the United States. In this interview, Hallin compares the media coverage of Covid-19 and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, talks about the possible consequences of this crisis for the upcoming US presidential elections and highlights some similarities between the fields of Communication and Medical Humanities.

Fiocruz as an actor in Brazilian foreign relations

This article presents some international projects on health cooperation held by Fiocruz in the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP).

Coronavirus and Historical Patterns of Epidemics in Latin America

Zoom talk with our science editor Marcos Cueto held by Latin American and Iberian Studies of the University of California, Santa Barbara

México entre pandemias: la influenza de 1918 y la covid-19

La historiadora mexicana América Molina del Villar explora las similitudes entre la influenza de 1918 y la covid-19: en las dos enfermedades están involucrados el consumo y tratamiento de animales, las medidas para contener el contagio son las mismas y las dos pandemias ponen evidencia la desigualdad social.