Round table: Brazil’s cooperation in health

Join us as we discuss the experiences, cases and methodologies used by researchers to analyse cooperation in health provided by Brazil towards Africa, especially Mozambique (its main partner), throughout the past two decades.

Introduction

• Alila Antonielli (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
  A coveted research subject? An overview of published works and profile of researchers working on Brazilian Health Cooperation in the last 15 years
• Jamil Chade (foreign correspondent)
  The evolution of Brazil’s role in the UN system on Health issues from the perspective of a Foreign Correspondent

Main discussion speakers:

• Manaíra Assunção (Universität Hamburg)
  Knowledge for development? The promise of Southern knowledge exchanges: Brazilian and Indian health expertise in Mozambique
• Maria Berta Ecija Salgado (King's College London)
  Foreign policy orientation and interest on global health issues vs technical and practical imbalances on delivery (Case Study: Brazil- Mozambique) 
• Helena de Moraes Achcar (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  The politics and anti-politics of SSC: The case of the ARV factory
• Rebecca Kuykendall (King's College London)
  Thinking outside the NS/SS classic cooperation box: Rwanda’s pioneering use of autonomous drone technologies in cooperation with the private sector for delivering systems for blood, medication and vaccination
• Dr Giuliano Russo (Queen Mary University) – moderator

The session will be followed by a Q&A.