Q&A with Paolo Buss, Director of the Center for Global Health at FIOCRUZ, Brazil.
Q: How can Brazil and Cuba export your knowledge to African countries?
A: The impressive technological development in Cuba came because of a strong political will. This teaches us that high-level political decisions are key. Market forces drive interests in the marketplace, but […]

TropIKA.net talks to Dr Guillermo Paraje from the School of Management, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Chile, about research on social determinants of health.
Q: Why are the social determinants of health important?
A: We cannot just look at biomedical determinants because there is a lot of evidence that if you do that you have a limited […]

Q&A with Dr Carlos Morel, Director of the Center for Technological Development in Health at Fiocruz, Brazil
Q: Can innovation in technology in Cuba can be exported to the rest of Latin America? to Africa and Asia?
A: Developing countries are very different. For instance, between Brazil and Cuba, we exchange technology. For instance, we are […]

Q&A with Anthony Mbewu, the next executive director of the Global Forum, and previously the President of the Medical Research Council of South Africa.
Q: When you take over the reins at the global forum, what are the first things you want to address?
A: I want to meet the major stakeholders in Geneva, beginning with WHO, […]

Q&A with Richard Scheffler, Professor of health economics and public policy at the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley
Q: Are we in danger of reinventing the wheel by we talk about health systems research?
A: I think a new field is needed in the global area. Health economics is tailored for the USA. Putting the […]