Advancing the Frontiers of Public Health and Medicine
Through Brazil-US Initiatives
Friday, April 3, 2020 at Yale University
Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT USA
Thursday, April 2
3 p.m. – 4 p.m. Special Exhibit
Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscripts Library*
Rooms 38 and 39
*Be prepared to show ID
7 p.m. Dinner
Invited Guests
Friday, April 3
9:00 a.m. – 9:20 p.m. Opening Comments
Pericles Lewis, Vice President for Global Strategy; Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives; Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English
Claudia Valeggia, Professor of Anthropology; Chair of the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, Yale University
Kenneth David Jackson, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Portuguese, Yale University
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Health and Human Rights – Session I
Moderator: Gregg Gonsalves, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Associate (Adjunct) Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership; Co-Director, Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency (TBC)
Paulo Cesar Basta, Researcher, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Romulo Sampiao, Professor of Law and the Director of the Research and Policy Center for Law and the Environment, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) Law School
Danielle Rached, Professor, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV)
11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Environment and Environmental Health
Moderator: TBC
Frederico Peres, Senior Researcher, Brazilian Ministry of Health, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Julio Croda, Chief, Department of Communicable Diseases at the Secretary of Health Surveillance, Brazil
Helena Ribeiro, Professor, University of São Paulo
Ted Cohen, Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and Associate Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies; Co-director, Public Health Modeling Concentration, Yale School of Medicine (TBC)
12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch
Yale Science Building Mezzanine
260 Whitney Avenue
2:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Data Science and Modeling in Health
Moderator: Albert Ko, Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Yale School of Public Health
Claudio Struchiner, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Fundação Getúlio Vargas and Researcher, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Eduardo Massad, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Daniel Weinberger, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health
Forrest Crawford, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Associate Professor of Management, and Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Yale School of Public Health
3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Health and Human Rights – Session II
Moderator: Claudia Valeggia, Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
João Biehl, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology and Woodrow Wilson School Faculty Associate, Princeton University
Amy Nunn, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, School of Public Health, Brown University
Christen Smith, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
5:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Closing Comments
Sergio Guerra, Dean, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) Law School
Albert Ko, Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Yale School of Public Health
Stuart Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History, Yale University (TBC)
5:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Reception
Yale Science Building Mezzanine
260 Whitney Avenue
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Dinner
Invited guests only
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Concert – Virtuosic Brazilian Instrumental Music: Choros and Sambas from the Past 100 years and Today
Featuring bandolim virtuoso Daniel Miglivacca and 7-string guitarist Rogéiro Souza
Luce Hall Auditorium
