 | Marcos Cueto Professor - FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro |
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02.03.2016-30.03.2016
Brazil’s contribution to global health. Aids, antiretrovirals and human rights from Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to the World Health Organization and UNAIDS, 1996-2005.
Marcos Cueto received his PhD from Columbia University, New York. He is a professor at the Program in the History of Health and Science at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, in Rio de Janeiro. He is the coauthor, with Steve Palmer, of the book Medicine and Public Health in Latin America, a Histoy (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015) and author of Cold War and Deadly Fevers: Malaria Eradication in Mexico, 1955-1970 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, 2014). He is working on the role played by Brazil in the recent history of AIDS paying attention to universal access to drugs, human rights, social movements and the relationship of developing countries with international agencies such as the World Health Organization.
I am an historian of science and medicine who has worked on Latin America and international health. After receiving my PhD from Columbia University I was a postodoctoral fellow at MIT´s program Science Technology and Society. I have been a visiting professor at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and NYU universities and at the Graduate Institute of Geneva. In 2016, my book on History of Medicine and public Health in Latin America [with S. Palmer] received the George Rosen award from the American Association for the History of Medicine. In the spring of 2019 Cambridge University Press will publish a boom Elizabeth Fee, Theodore Brown and I wrote on the history of the World Health Organization.
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