EP #75 - Brazil & COVID-19 - Rosanna Dent and Gilberto Hochman

Today, we have a discussion of BRAZIL WITH Rosanna Dent and Gilberto Hochman.

Rosanna Dent is an assistant professor in the federated history department of New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers--Newark. She has published work on the history of epidemiological research in Indigenous communities, and the history of genetics and anthropology in Brazil. She is currently working on a manuscript that examines the political and social history of research interactions in Xavante (pronounced: Shah-vahn-teh) territory, as well as a digital humanities project to return scientific materials to the communities they document.

Gilberto Hochman is a researcher and professor at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the author of works on health policies in a historical perspective such as the book "The Sanitation of Brazil - Nation. State and Public Health (1889-1930)" published in 2016 (The Illinois University Press). His current research is about science, politics and health in Cold War Brazil.