# Lemann Dialogue 2021 ![lemann dialogue logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/screen_shot_2021-02-24_at_11.02.10_am.png) Five virtual panels featuring a diverse group of scholars, leaders, and practitioners debating the impacts of the pandemic and addressing Brazil's most urgent public policy needs. Open all sections Close all sections ### About the 2021 Lemann Dialogue: Confronting the Covid-19 Crisis in Brazil expand\_more The Lemann Dialogues are annual conferences on Brazil collaboratively organized between four universities with endowments made possible through the Lemann Foundation: the Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University; the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies at Columbia University; the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois; and the Lemann Center for Entrepreneurship and Educational Innovation in Brazil at Stanford University´s Graduate School of Education. The founder of the Lemann Foundation is Jorge Paulo Lemann, noted Brazilian business leader and a generous benefactor of Harvard University. The specific conference themes vary each year, but generally focus on contemporary social, economic, and political challenges in Brazil. Speakers at these conferences include faculty from the four collaborating institutions, as well as scholars, policymakers, and other experts from Brazil. The conference provides an excellent opportunity to showcase innovative research on Brazil, build connections between academic institutions, and connect leading academics and public policy experts. The 2021 Lemann Dialogue: Confronting the Covid-19 Crisis in Brazil, hosted virtually by Harvard University from March 22-26, aims to move beyond a mere analysis of the Brazilian response to the pandemic. The conference also seeks to address some of the country´s most urgent public policy needs and establish clear, evidence-based policy recommendations for the future. The 2021 Lemann Dialogue seeks to accomplish this goal by posing challenging questions to a diverse group of Brazilian scholars, leaders, and practitioners. Though the overarching themes of the Dialogue are public health, governance, and socioeconomic, racial, and territorial inequality, discussions around the impact of the crisis on the economy, urban life, the school-aged population, and the stability of democracy will take place throughout the week. ### Who Can Attend? expand\_more Current students, faculty, and staff at Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are eligible to attend the Dialogue. Current Lemann Fellow Candidates as well as former Lemann Fellows and alumni from the above universities are also eligible to register for the conference. Eligible audience members must register with their official university email address (registrants who use a personal email will be blocked). If you are eligible to attend but have not received an invitation email, please contact [Tiago Genoveze](mailto:///tiago_genoveze@harvard.edu). The 2021 Lemann Dialogue will not be open to individuals in other institutions or universities, or to the general public. ![man shoveling dirt into a hole](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/lemann_dialogues_banner.png) ## Monday, March 22 - 12-2pm Open all sections Close all sections ### Keynote: José Gomes Temporão “The Pandemic, the State, and Society in Brazil: COVID-19, A Public Health Perspective” expand\_more ### KEYNOTE ADDRESS **José Gomes Temporão**, Former Health Minister of Brazil, 2007-2010; Full Member, Brazilian National Academy of Medicine; Associated Researcher, Center for Strategic Studies, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation ### MODERATOR **Marcia Castro**, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, HSPH; Co-Chair, Brazil Studies Program, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) ### WELCOME REMARKS **Steven Levitsky**, Director, DRCLAS; Professor of Government, Harvard University **Gustavo Azenha**, Director, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies, Columbia University; Executive Director, Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), Columbia University **John Karam**, Director, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois; Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese **Martin Carnoy**, Faculty Director, Lemann Center for Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brasil, Stanford University; Vida Jacks Professor, Stanford University School of Education **Frances Hagopian**, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Brazil Studies Program, DRCLAS ## Tuesday, March 23 - 12-2pm Open all sections Close all sections ### The Public Health Response to COVID-19: What Went Wrong? expand\_more ### SPEAKERS **Antonio Silva Lima Neto**, Head, Epidemiological Surveillance Department of Fortaleza Health Secretariat, Brazil; Professor of Epidemiology, University of Fortaleza Medical School (UNIFOR) **Gabriela Spanghero Lotta**, Professor, FGV/EAESP **Jorge Kalil**, Full Professor and Head of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of São Paulo Medical School **Natalia Pasternak**, President, Instituto Questão de Ciência ### DISCUSSANT **Alberto Díaz-Cayeros**, Senior Fellow, Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law; Director, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University ### MODERATOR **Marcia Castro**, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Hsph; Co-Chair, Brazil Studies Program, DRCLAS ## Wednesday, March 24 - 12-2pm Open all sections Close all sections ### A Pandemic of Inequalities expand\_more ### SPEAKERS **Emanuelle Goes**, Postdoctoral Researcher, CIDACS-Fiocruz **José Antonio Campos Jardim**, President, Central Única das Favelas (CUFA) Paraná **José Scheinkman**, Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of Economics, Columbia University **Ricardo Paes de Barros**, Professor, Insper ### DISCUSSANT **Mary Paula Arends-Kuenning**, Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ### MODERATOR **Bruno Carvalho**, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies, Harvard University ## Thursday, March 25 - 12-2pm Open all sections Close all sections ### Governing a Public Health Emergency expand\_more ### SPEAKERS **Carmen Zanotto**, Brazilian Congresswoman, CIDADANIA/SC **Flávio Dino**, Governor, State of Maranhão, Brazil **Lorena Guadalupe Barberia**, Professor of Political Science, USP **Mariana Batista**, Professor of Political Science, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco ### DISCUSSANT **Otaviano Canuto Dos Santos Filho**, Lemann Visiting Public Policy Fellows, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University ### MODERATOR **Frances Hagopian**, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Brazil Studies Program, DRCLAS ## Friday, March 26 - 12-2pm Open all sections Close all sections ### The Way Forward expand\_more ### MODERATORS **Frances Hagopian**, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Brazil Studies Program, DRCLAS **Marcia Castro**, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Hsph; Co-Chair, Brazil Studies Program, DRCLAS ### SPEAKERS **Deisy Ventura**, Professor of Global Health Ethics, School of Public Health at the University of São Paulo (USP) **Gilson Rodrigues**, President, G10 Favelas; President, União dos Moradores e do Comércio de Paraisópolis \[Union of Residents and Commerce of Paraisópolis\] **Guilherme Werneck**, Researcher and Professor, Instituto de Medicina Social (IMS/UERJ) ### CLOSING REMARKS **Jorge Paulo Lemann**, Founder, Lemann Foundation ## Speaker Biographies Open all sections Close all sections ### Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, Senior Fellow, Center on Democracy; Director, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University expand\_more ![headshot of Alberto Diaz](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/alberto_diaz.png) Alberto Diaz-Cayeros joined the FSI faculty in 2013 after serving for five years as the director of the Center for US-Mexico studies at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his Ph.D at Duke University in 1997. He was an assistant professor of political science at Stanford from 2001-2008, before which he served as an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Diaz-Cayeros has also served as a researcher at Centro de Investigacion Para el Desarrollo, A.C. in Mexico from 1997-1999. His work has focused on federalism, poverty and violence in Latin America, and Mexico in particular. He has published widely in Spanish and English. His book Federalism, Fiscal Authority and Centralization in Latin America was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007 (reprinted 2016). His latest book (with Federico Estevez and Beatriz Magaloni) is: The Political Logic of Poverty Relief Electoral Strategies and Social Policy in Mexico. His work has primarily focused on federalism, poverty and economic reform in Latin America, and Mexico in particular, with more recent work addressing crime and violence, youth-at-risk, and police professionalization. ### Antonio Silva Lima Neto, Head, Epidemiological Surveillance Department of Fortaleza Health Secretariat, Brazil expand\_more ![headshot of Antonio Silva Lima Neto](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/antonio_silva_lima_neto.png) Antonio S. Lima Neto is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Fortaleza Medical School (UNIFOR) and Head of the Department of Epidemiological Surveillance at the Fortaleza Health Secretariat. After graduating in Medicine (Federal University of Ceará) and completing his Residence Training (School of Public Health of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation), Antonio obtained his Master's degrees (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and PhD (State University of Ceará). Recently, Antonio S. Lima Neto had conducted postdoctoral studies at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His studies mostly try to understand the factors associated with the occurrence of communicable diseases and lethal violence in Brazil. ### Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies, Harvard University expand\_more ![headshot of B Carvalho](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/bruno_carvalho.png) Bruno Carvalho works on cities as lived and imagined spaces. He studies relationships between cultural practices and urbanization, specializing on Brazil from the eighteenth century onward. Carvalho’s interdisciplinary approaches bridge history, literary analysis, and urban studies. Often, he investigates how socio-cultural processes of the past converge in and with the present. He is writing a book on different ways in which people imagined the future of cities over the past two centuries. A Rio de Janeiro native, Carvalho received his PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University (2009) and taught at Princeton University between 2009-2018. Carvalho has written numerous articles and essays. He is the author of the award-winning [*Porous City*](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/porous-city-9781781381649?cc=us&lang=en&)*: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro*, published in Brazil in a revised and expanded [edition](https://www.companhiadasletras.com.br/detalhe.php?codigo=28000541). He co-organized a critical edition in Portuguese of United States constitutional documents, which circulated in Brazil and played a role in independence movements ([*O Livro de Tiradentes*](https://www.companhiadasletras.com.br/detalhe.php?codigo=85102)*: Transmissão atlântica de ideias políticas no século XVIII*, 2013). Carvalho is also editor of *Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies:* [*The Eighteenth Century*](https://ojs.lib.umassd.edu/index.php/plcs/issue/view/PLCS29), and co-editor of [*Occupy All Streets*](https://www.urpub.org/books/occupyallstreets)*: Olympic Urbanism and Contested Futures in Rio de Janeiro* (2016), [*Essays on Hilda Hilst*](https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319563176)*: Between Brazil and World Literature* (2018), and of the book series[ *Lateral Exchanges*](https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/series/lateral-exchanges), on historical and contemporary issues in design and the built environment. At Harvard, Carvalho is Co-Director of the [Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative](http://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/), a member of the Faculty Advisory Committees on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, and in the Brazil Studies Program, as well as a Faculty Affiliate of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, the Center for the Environment, the Graduate School of Design, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. ### Carmen Zanotto, Brazilian Congresswoman, CIDADANIA/SC expand\_more ![headshot of Carmen Zanotto](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/carmen_zanotto.png) Carmen Zanotto is a nurse specialized in hospital administration and human resources. She has been a city councilwoman, a secretary of municipal health in Lages, Santa Catarina, and secretary of state. Zanotto is the President of the Frente Parlamentar Mista da Saúde (Joint Parliamentary Front on Health) and she is the Rapporteur for the Comissão Externa de Enfrentamento à Covid-19 (External Commission for the Fight Against Covid-19). Zanotto is also the third Adjunct Prosecutor and a member of the Joint Budget Commission for the House of Representatives. ### Deisy Ventura, Professor of Global Ethics, School of Public Health at the University of São Paulo (USP) expand\_more ![headshot of Deisy Ventura](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/daisy_ventura.png) Deisy Ventura is a Professor in Global Health Ethics and Director of the PhD Program in Global Health and Sustainability at the Public Health School of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She has a PhD in International Law, from University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. Currently, her main research topics are the human rights situation during international health emergencies, including the protection of migrants and refugees, the role played by WHO during international health crises, among other critical studies on global health. ### Emanuelle Goes, Postdoctoral Researcher, CIDACS-Fiocruz expand\_more ![headshot of Emmanuel Freitas Goes](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/emmanuel_freitas_goes.png) Emanuelle Goes is an epidemiologist currently conducting postdoctoral research at CIDACS/Fiocruz/Bahia. She obtained her PhD in Public Health at the Federal University of Bahia´s Institute for Collective Health (ISC/UFBA), where she defended her dissertation on racism and abortion. Goes participated in a doctoral exchange program at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Science at Porto University. She has a master’s degree in nursing from the Federal University of Bahia. Goes is also an Associated Researcher at MUSA – Program for Gender and Health Studies (ISC/UFBA) and the Program for Studies in Chronic, Non-Transmissible Diseases, in the Life and Aging Course – Elsa/Brasil (ISC/UFBA). She is a member of the Thematic Group on Racism and Health in the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (Abrasco). Goes has experience in health inequalities, racism and health, health information, and reproductive rights. ### Flávio Dino, Governor, State of Maranhão, Brazil expand\_more ![headshot of Flavio Dino](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/flavio_dino.png) Flávio Dino holds a law degree from the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA), where he is currently licensed as a professor of constitutional law. Dino served as federal judge for 12 years, holding prominent national positions. He was president of the Association of Federal Judges of Brazil (Ajufe), secretary general of the National Council of Justice (CNJ), and advisor to the presidency of the Supreme Federal Court (STF). In 2006, he left his career as a judge to pursue the challenge of changing Maranhão. He was one of the most voted federal deputies of Maranhão and was subsequently elected one of the most influential congressmen in Brazil by the Intersindical Department of Parliamentary Advisory (DIAP), and one of the best congressmen in the country by the Congress in Focus website. Between 2011 and 2014, Flávio Dino chaired Embratur (Brazilian Institute of Tourism). In 2014, he was elected governor of Maranhão in the first round. He was reelected in 2018 with 59% of the votes. He is also currently the president of the Interstate Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Legal Amazon. ### Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Brazil Studies Program, DRCLAS expand\_more ![headshot of F. Hagopian](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/francis_hagopian.png) Frances Hagopian is Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government and Faculty Co-Chair of Harvard’s Brazil Studies Program. She specializes in the comparative politics of Latin America, with emphasis on democratization, political representation, political economy, and religion and politics. Hagopian is author of Reorganizing Representation in Latin America (2014, Cambridge University Press), editor of Religious Pluralism, Democracy, and the Catholic Church in Latin America (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009), co-editor (with Scott Mainwaring) of The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks (Cambridge 2005), and author of Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and numerous journal articles and book chapters. Her current work focuses on the establishment of a social welfare regime in Brazil, and the political economy of inequality in Latin America. She previously taught at the University of Notre Dame, where she was Director of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, as well as Tufts and Harvard Universities. She has also been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford. ### Gabriela Spanghero Lotta, Professor, FGV/EAESP expand\_more ![headshot of Gabriela Spanghero Lotta](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/gabriela_spanghero_lotta.png) Gabriela Lott is a Professor of Public Administration at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV). She coordinates the Bureaucracy Studies Center (NEB). She is a professor at the National School of Public Administration, ENAP, and a researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM). She works mainly in the areas of public policy, bureaucracy, policy implementation, and health policies. Lotta received her BSc in public administration and PhD in Political Science at the University of São Paulo. ### Gilson Rodrigues, President, G10 Favelas; President, União dos Moradores e do Comércio de Paraisópolis expand\_more ![headshot of Gilson Rodrigues](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/gilson_rodrigues.png) Gilson Rodrigues is a social entrepreneur, consultant, speaker, community leader, and the National President of G10 Favelas. Rodrigues is the President of the People's School Institute, an organization responsible for literacy that transformed the lives of over 7,000 people. He is the founder of sports and cultural projects, such as Orchestra and Ballet of Paraisópolis. Rodrigues has led the largest urbanization program in Latin America for the transformation and economic development of the Paraisópolis favela, so that it becomes a model neighborhood for other communities. This project and the others resulted in recognition and awards in 12 countries. Rodrigues was the inspiration for the creation of the character Cicero, played by the actor Danton Melo, from the novel “I Love Paraisópolis” who performed the role of President of the Union of Residents and Commerce of Paraisópolis. Currently, he leads the Committees of the Street Favelas-Presidents, one of many initiatives to fight the pandemic of the new coronavirus to reduce the impact on Brazilian communities. ### Guilherme Werneck, Researcher and Professor, Instituto de Medicina Social (IMS/UERJ) expand\_more ![headshot of Guilherme Werneck](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/guilherme_werneck.png) Guilherme graduated in Medicine and received a DSc degree in Immunology and Infectious Diseases from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). He has an appointment as a full professor at the Department of Epidemiology of the State University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a member of the "WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Parasitic Diseases (Leishmaniasis)" and a senior researcher of the Brazilian Research Council. From 2012-2014 he was a visiting scientist at the Department of Global Health and Population at HSPH. His research focuses on the epidemiology of infectious diseases, with a particular interest on the identification of socioeconomic and environmental determinants of the occurrence and spread of visceral leishmaniasis and other neglected tropical diseases; uses of spatial data analysis, geographic information systems and remote sensing in epidemiology and public health; urbanization and health; uses of epidemiologic and statistical methods in health sciences. ### Gustavo Azenha, Director, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies, Columbia University; ED, Institute of Latin American Studies ILAS expand\_more ![headshot of Gustavo Azenha](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/gustavo_azenha.png) As Executive Director of ILAS, Gustavo Azenha runs the daily operations of the Institute and its affiliated centers and programs, serving as the chief budget and human resources officer, and overseeing programming, outreach, and development. He also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Masters program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, as well as Director of the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies. Gustavo holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, where his training and research focused on environmental anthropology and political ecology. He specializes in development and socioenvironmental politics in Brazil, with his primary research efforts directed towards examining the historical and contemporary interrelations between environmental, indigenous, and economic development policies. More broadly, his interests and expertise are concerned with the politics of inequality and with the role of civil society and social movements in public policy dynamics. His research and professional experiences have included engagement with the politics of sustainable development, public health, and education & technology. Prior to joining ILAS, Gustavo has held positions as a postdoctoral fellow at Barnard College’s Department of Anthropology (through a​ National Science Foundation​ Fellowship​) and as Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Purchase College. He also worked for 5 years in applied global public health, engaged in advocacy and NGO capacity-building initiatives throughout Latin America. ### John Karam, Director, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois; Associate Professor, University of Illinois expand\_more ![headshot of John Tofick Karam](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/john_tofick_karam.png) John Tofik Karam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois. His first book on Arab cultural politics in neoliberal Brazil (2007) won awards from the Arab American National Museum and the Brazilian Studies Association. It was translated into both Arabic and Portuguese by Centre for Arab Unity Studies and the Editora Martins Fontes, respectively. His current book project is titled, “Manifold Destiny: Arabs at an Exceptional Crossroads of the Americas.” As part of that project, his 2013 article, “The Lebanese Diaspora at the Tri-Border and the Redrawing of South American Geopolitics, 1950-1992,” was awarded the best article prize by the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association. His work appears in both the Journal of Latin American Studies and the International Journal of Middle East Studies. ### Jorge Kalil, Full Professor and Head of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of São Paulo Medical School expand\_more ![headshot of Jorge Kalil](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/jorge_kalil.png) Jorge Kalil is Professor of Clinical Immunology and Allergy at the School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo. He is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health until September 2019. He graduated in Medicine in Brazil and received his Doctor of Sciences degree from Jean Dausset’s Laboratory, Nobel Laureate for the discovery of HLA, in Paris. He has 400 publications listed on PubMed in diverse areas of immunology. He was an International Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Visiting Professor at Stanford Medical School, Director of the Butantan Institute and President of IUIS (International Union of Immunological Societies). ### Jorge Paulo Lemann, Founder, Lemann Foundation expand\_more ![headshot of Jorge Paulo Lemann](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/jorge_paulo_lemann.png) Jorge Paulo Lemann was born in 1939 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He earned a bachelor's degree in Economics from Harvard University in 1961. Mr. Lemann founded and was Senior Partner of Banco Garantia from 1971 to 1998. From then until 2005, he was a director of the Gillette Company in Boston and of Lojas Americanas and AmBev in Brazil. He was also Chairman of the Latin American Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange and a member of the DaimlerChrysler International Advisory Board. He is controlling shareholder of Anheuser-Busch InBev, Restaurant Brands International (owner of Burger King, Popeyes and Tim Hortons) and Director Kraft-Heinz Company and of 3G Capital. Mr. Lemann is co-founder of Fundação Estudar and Fundação Lemann, nonprofit organizations that provide scholarships and new educational techniques for Brazilians. ### José Antonio Campos Jardim, President, Central Única das Favelas (CUFA) Paraná expand\_more ![headshot of Jose Antonio Campos Jardim](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/jose_antonio_campos_jardim.png) José Antonio Campos Jardim is President of the Central Única das Favelas for the state of Paraná, an institution that promotes activities in education, culture, sports, and leisure in Brazil as well as 17 other countries. He is also a psychologist, theologian, and chemical dependency technician currently specializing in clinical and institutional psychopedagogy. José Antonio also works with art production, social entrepreneurship, and social project consulting for businesses and government. As a CUFA leader, he plays a fundamental role during the pandemic in articulating the Mães da Favela and CUFA Contra Virus projects, currently implemented in 5,000 favelas across the country. José Antonio is the CEO of LABUBA, the first agency for social businesses, consulting, and entrepreneurship for favelas in the state of Paraná. These businesses aim to solve social problems by creating financially self-sustaining actions. ### José Gomes Temporão, Former Health Minister of Brazil, 2007-2010; Full Member, Brazilian National Academy of Medicine expand\_more ![headshot of Jose Gomes Temporao](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/jose_gomes_temporao.png) José Gomes Temporão was born on October 20, 1951, in the parish of Merufe, in the village of Monção, in the north of Portugal. His parents, Sara Gomes and José Temporão, emigrated to Brazil when he was just one year old, and settled in Rio de Janeiro. Temporão graduated in Medicine at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1977. He specialized in Tropical Diseases at the same University. He did a Master's in Public Health at the National School of Public Health of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and a PhD in Social Medicine at the Institute of Social Medicine at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). When specializing in Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Temporão had his initial contact with the Public Health sector. Subsequently, he stood out by participating in the health movement, which resulted in the creation of the Unified Health System (SUS). Temporão was Minister of Health of the Ministry of Health and Member of the Cancer Control Advisory Committee, of the World Health Organization (WHO). ### José Scheinkman, Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of Economics, Columbia University expand\_more ![headshot of Jose Scheinkman](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/jose_scheinkman.png) José A. Scheinkman is the Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of Economics at Columbia, Theodore Wells ‘29 Professor of Economics (emeritus) at Princeton, and Research Associate at NBER. During the academic year 2020-2021 he is engaged in full-time research as a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia’s economics department. Previously, Scheinkman was Alvin H. Baum Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago, Blaise Pascal Research Professor (France), Visiting Professor at Collège de France, and Vice-President in the Financial Strategies Group of Goldman, Sachs. Scheinkman is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Finance Association, and recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and of a “doctorat honoris causa” from the Université Paris-Dauphine. In 2014, he was awarded the CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications. Scheinkman’s current research is on Financial Economics with emphasis on asset-price bubbles. He was born in Rio de Janeiro and participates actively on debates concerning economic and social policy in Brazil. He is a member of the board of directors of Cosan S.A., a Brazilian company engaged in the production and distribution of sugar, ethanol, energy and logistic services and of the Advisory Board of Stone, a Brazilian fintech listed on the Nasdaq. ### Lorena Guadalupe Barberia, Professor of Political Science, USP expand\_more ![headshot of Lorena Barberia](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/lorena_barberia.png) Lorena G. Barberia is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo. Her primary fields of interest are comparative political economy, Latin American politics and political methodology. Her recent work analyzes the determinants of subnational and national policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. At USP, Professor Barberia teaches quantitative methods for undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Political Science. She is the scientific coordinator of the Solidarity Research Network Public Policy and Society, a research project that seeks to improve the standard, calibrate the focus and improve the quality of federal, state and municipal government policies that seek to respond the COVID-19 crisis with the aim of helping to save lives in Brazil, and a research affiliate of Observatório Covid-19 BR. She is Chair of the Faculty Coordinating Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA)-University of São Paulo (USP) Summer School in Concepts, Methods and Techniques in Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations, and a member of the Organizing Committee of the Latin American Political Methodology Annual Meeting of the Society of Political Methodology. ### Mariana Batista, Professor of Political Science, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco expand\_more ![headshot of Mariana Batista](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/mariana_batista.png) Mariana Batista is a Political Science professor at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - Brazil. She obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science from UFPE. She was a visiting fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University and the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford. Her areas of research have focused on the politics of coalition governments in presidential systems and the policy implications of government composition. She has published in different journals, such as the Journal of Politics in Latin America, Latin American Politics and Society, and Research and Politics. In 2015 she received the Guillermo O'Donnell award for best dissertation from the Latin American Political Science Association. ### Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, HSPH; Co-Chair, BSP, DRCLAS expand\_more ![Marcia Castro photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/face_01.jpg) Marcia Castro is Andelot Professor of Demography, and chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, associate faculty of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and faculty member of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Her research focuses on the development and use of multidisciplinary approaches, combining data from different sources, to identify the determinants of malaria transmission in different ecological settings, and to provide evidence for the improvement of current control policies, and the development of new ones. She has more than 20 years of research experience in the Brazilian Amazon, and is assessing the role of extreme weather events on malaria. She has projects on dengue, Zika virus, chikungunya, tuberculosis, congenital syphilis, and infant and child mortality and development. Professor Castro received the 2018 Roger L. Nichols Award for Excellence in Teaching. She earned her doctoral degree in Demography from Princeton University. ### Martin Carnoy, Faculty Director, Lemann Center for Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brasil, Stanford University expand\_more ![headshot of Martin Carnoy](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/carnoy_pic_by_sofiia.png) Martin Carnoy is Vida Jacks Professor at the Stanford University School of Education. He has also worked as consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, UNESCO, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), UNICEF, and the International Labor Organization. Carnoy is a fellow of the National and International Academy of Education and the former president of the Comparative and International Education Society. Much of his work is comparative and international, and investigates the impact of global economic and social change on the way educational systems are organized. He has authored more than thirty books, including the acclaimed “Cuba's Academic Advantage.” Carnoy and colleagues from South Africa and Botswana have recently published an innovative study on primary schooling in southern Africa, The Low Achievement Trap. He is currently completing a book on higher educational change in the large developing countries—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—known as the BRICs. He first did research in Brazil in the 1960s as part of a four-year project on the Latin American free trade area at the Brookings Institution and University of São Paulo. Carnoy has lectured at Brazilian universities, including the Federal University of Bahia in 1985. He has done extensive studies on Brazilian education and policies such as the Education Development Plan (PDE, Plano de Desenvolvimento da Educação). ### Mary Paula Arends-Kuenning, Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign expand\_more ![headshot of Mary Paula Arendes Kuenning](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/mary_paula_arendes-kuenning.png) Mary Arends-Kuenning is Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and is former Interim Director of the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois. She is an economic demographer who focuses on household decisions. Her research areas include children’s schooling and child labor, household consumption, family planning, and international migration. She examines the implications of household decisions for household members’ present and future well-being. Her work has been published in World Development, Demography, and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, among other journals and is widely cited by other researchers and policymakers. ### Natalia Pasternak, President, Instituto Questão de Ciência expand\_more ![headshot of Natalia Pasternak](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/natalia_pasternak.png) Natalia Pasternak has a degree in Biological Sciences from the Institute of Biosciences of the University of São Paulo (IB-USP), PhD with a post-doctorate in Microbiology, in the area of ​​Molecular Genetics of Bacteria by the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of São Paulo (ICB- USP). She was the director in Brazil of the international festival of scientific dissemination Pint of Science - Um Brinde à Ciência, coordinating lectures in 85 cities. She is a columnist for the newspaper O Globo, for the magazine The Skeptic (UK), a columnist for the magazine Saúde, and author of the book Ciência no Cotidiano, by the publisher Contexto. She works as a visiting researcher at ICB-USP, at the Vaccine Development Laboratory (LDV) and as a visiting professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas, at the School of Public Administration. She is currently the publisher of Revista Questão de Ciência and director-president of the Instituto Questão de Ciência ([www.iqc.org.br](http://www.iqc.org.br)), the first Brazilian Institute for the promotion of critical and rational thinking, and public policies based on scientific evidence. In 2020, she became a member of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (USA) and was awarded the international skepticism promotion prize "The Ockham Award" (Ockham's Razor). At the invitation of the UN, she is part of the Halo Team, a team of scientists that promotes clarifications about vaccines in TikTok. ### Otaviano Canuto dos Santos Filho, Lemann Visiting Public Policy Fellows, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia expand\_more ![headshot of Octavio Canuto dos Santos Filho](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/octavio_canuto_dos_santos_filho.png) Otaviano Canuto dos Santos Filho is a well-respected researcher, thought leader, and author in economics with experience managing knowledge networks and providing strategic advice to senior management of multilateral institutions and governments. His experience includes fifteen years as vice president, executive director, or senior adviser in multilateral institutions (World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund and Inter-American Development Bank), twenty years as a professor of economics, and a year as vice minister in the Brazilian Ministry of Finance. He is recognized as a results-driven leader of teams dealing with complex policy issues and integrating research results, and is consistently acknowledged for having a deep understanding of economic trends of the global economy, Latin America, and the Caribbean. ### Ricardo Paes de Barros, Professor, Insper expand\_more ![headshot of Ricardo Paes de Barros](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/ricardo_paes_de_barros.png) Ricardo Paes de Barros holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA), a master’s degree in Statistics from the National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) and a doctorate in Economics from the University of Chicago. He was a postdoc at the Economics Research Center at the University of Chicago and at the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. Paes de Barros was a member of the Institute for Economics and Applied Research (IPEA) for over 30 years, where he conducted innumerous research studies on topics related to inequality and poverty, the labor market and education in Brazil and Latin America. From 1990 to 1996, he was a visiting professor at Yale University and, from 1999 to 2002, director of the Social Studies Board of IPEA. From 2011 to 2015, he was deputy secretary of strategic actions at the Strategic Affairs Department of the Office of the President of the Republic. As an academic, he has published various papers and books on his fields of research and has received important awards in recognition of his work. These include the Haralambos Simeonidis Award in 1995 and 2000 and the Mario Henrique Simonsen Award in 2000. Ricardo was honored as a recipient of the National Order of Scientific Merit in 2005, elected a sitting member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2010 and was the first to receive the Celso Furtado Award in Social Studies in 2012 from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). In 2015, he left the public sector to assume the position of Chief Economist at Ayrton Senna Institute until 2019. Today Paes de Barros is Professsor at Insper, where he is dedicated to using scientific evidence to identify major challenges in Brazil and formulate and evaluate public policy related to topics such as labor productivity, education, early childhood, youth, demographics and immigration, in addition to recurring topics in his career, such as inequality, poverty and the labor market. ### Steven Levitsky, Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Professor of Government, Harvard University expand\_more ![headshot of S. Levitsky](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/drclas2/files/steve_levitsky.png) Steven Levitsky is the Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. As the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government, his research focuses on democratization, authoritarianism, political parties, and weak and informal institutions. He is author (with Daniel Ziblatt) of How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018), a New York Times Best-Seller that has been published in 22 languages, Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Lucan Way) (Cambridge, 2010), and Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, 2003), and co -editor of Informal Institutions and Democracy in Latin America (with Gretchen Helmke) and The Resurgence of the Latin American Left (with Kenneth Roberts). 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