This collaborative course is offered by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Fiocruz's Centro de Pesquisa Gonçalo Moniz with the support of the Brazil Studies Program at Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). The course is taking place in Salvador, Bahia (Brazil) from January 6 to January 22, 2009 and includes faculty and students from HSPH, Fiocruz, and numerous leading public health institutions from throughout Brazil. The 2009 course builds on the experience of the inaugural course in January 2008 and benefits from the continued collaboration of the Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo Medical School (Santa Casa). It includes students from the US, Brazil, Nigeria, and Pakistan who have diverse experiences as anthropologists, lab scientists, social workers, statisticians, development policy specialists, physicians, and more.

>> Collaborating Institutions
>> Download Course Packet
>> Student Evaluation Highlights
>> Student and Faculty Reflections (videos)

Site Visits in Salvador: 
>> Hospital Couto Maia
>> Pau da Lima and São Marcos Health Care Clinic
>> Zoonosis Control Center (CCZ) 

>> Photos of course sites
>> Map of key field course locations

This course is made possible thanks to the financial support of Pedro Conde Filho to the DRCLAS Brazil Office and Brazil Studies Program; the Lemann Family Endowment; the Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH); and the CNPq (Brazil's National Council for Technological and Scientific Development).