**The Harvard-Brazil Collaborative Public Health Field Course is being redesigned to enable new collaborations, take place in various locations around Brazil, and address other important public health issues. The new collaborative course will be held in January 2013.**

This collaborative field course is offered by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), the Fiocruz's Centro de Pesquisa Gonçalo Moniz, and the Brazil Studies Program at Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). A Scientific Organizing Committee is responsible for the planning, review, and assessment of the course and is comprised of faculty members from HSPH, Fiocruz, the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo, the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo and the Universidade Federal da Bahia. Professors Mary E. Wilson and Marcia Castro are HSPH co-leaders for the course in 2011.

The overall objectives are to enhance participants’ abilities to:
--> Critically analyze environmental and socioeconomic factors in Brazil that are associated with a high prevalence and geographic distribution of the infectious diseases discussed in this course.
--> Identify population characteristics, such as nutrition status, immunity, co-morbidities, degree of exposure associated with disease epidemiology and the impact of these factors on disease morbidity and mortality.
--> Identify and describe selected infectious diseases that are prevalent in Brazil.
--> Foster lasting academic collaborations and joint research projects between HSPH and Brazilian participants, strengthening personal networks throughout Brazil and internationally.

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>> Course Schedule
>> Participants
>> Field Groups
>> Final Reports and Presentations
>> Key Locations Map
>> Lectures
>> Optional Student Presentation
>> Readings
>> Student Pairings
>> Support

For more detailed information, please see course information from: 2010, 2009 and 2008.