Twenty years of successful academic outreach at Núcleo de Medicina Tropical (NACE-NUMETROP/USP) in Santarém, Pará

Heading back into the perfect storm: increasing risks for disease emergence in Brazil?

“…Important initiatives have brought about a solid partnership between health services and science, especially in neglected tropical diseases. An important example is the establishment of the University of São Paulo's "Nucleo de Medicina Tropical" in Pará State, a center of excellence in tropical medicine in the heart of the Amazon, the largest tropical forest in the world 5 . Over time, the sanitarian-driven public health approach has become environmentally driven, and the urgency of reconciliation between health and nature conservation sciences has become obvious 6 .…”