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.

In 1906, Doctor Emílio Ribas reorganized the Sanitation Service. A campaign to combat trachoma, an ophthalmic disease, was implemented as part of the project. This recent article analyzes this campaign.

Tropical medicine emerged as a specialized field in Europe during the era of colonial expansion. Russia had no colonies in the tropics, but did possess vast territories with hot climates. This review presents the 100-year history of the Martsinovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine in Moscow, Russia.

It explores how fevers affected social life in Brazil in the early nineteenth century and the efforts to establish medical knowledge about fevers in tropical environments.

The disease was discovered in 1909 by the Brazilian sanitary physician Carlos Chagas at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.

The article investigates the process of circulation of knowledge which occurred during the first decades of the twentieth century between South American researchers and Europeans.

El artículo analiza dos modelos de investigación representados por los institutos Pasteur y The London School of Tropical Medicine.

Sandra Caponi (Universidade de Santa Catarina, Brasil) investiga los argumentos, conceptos y protocolos de investigación utilizados por estas instituciones.

The workshop will take place in Lisbon. Deadline for proposals: 15th September 2017

The US National Library of Medicine features an online collection of films about the battle against tropical disease between 1927 and 2007.

Magali Romero Sá, Deputy Director of Research at Fiocruz, explains the main issues to be addressed in the conference “Public Health and Society in Latin America and the Caribbean”.