In the editor’s note of the new issue of HCSM, Marcos Cueto and André Cândido da Silva discuss the importance of the Declaration on Primary Health Care and show their concern about the future of Brazilian journals.

André Felipe Cândido da Silva and Marcos Cueto are the new science editors of História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos. Read the letter on forthcoming pathways.

“Launching Global Health”, by Steven Palmer, illuminates the role played by international agencies in developing countries. Read the interview with the author.

Marcos Cueto analises some lessons from the experience of the MDG in the editor´s letter of HCSM’s first issue of 2015.

At the request of HCSM, Gareth Austin, from the International History Department of the Graduate Institute in Geneva, provides a panorama of the ebola epidemic in Africa.

According to Rory Miller, professor of the MBA Footbal Industries at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom, few countries or cities secure a lasting positive legacy by hosting big sports events.