Info Session Presentation (9/10)
Course Dates: January 6 – 24, 2025
Location: Fortaleza, the capital of Ceará State. Ceará is widely recognized for its innovative efforts to reduce infant and child mortality in the past 15 years. Students participating in the course will have the chance to learn from hands on experience about these efforts, as well as about the Brazilian Health Care System, Health Polices, and Endemic Infectious Diseases in the country.
Participants: 15 students from Harvard and 15 students from Brazil will be selected. Faculty from Harvard and several Brazilian institutions will lecture, lead discussions, and mentor group work.
Overall objectives: Enhance participants’ abilities to:
- Critically analyze environmental and socioeconomic factors in Brazil that are associated with a high prevalence and geographic distribution of diseases.
- Identify population characteristics, such as nutrition status, immunity, degree of exposure associated with disease epidemiology and the impact of these factors on disease morbidity and mortality.
- Foster lasting academic collaborations and joint research projects between HSPH and Brazilian participants, strengthening personal networks throughout Brazil and internationally.
At the end of the course, students will present and discuss their projects. Throughout this course, students will have an opportunity to interact with faculty from Harvard as well as faculty, public health workers, researchers, and students from Brazil.
