MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU) Seminar Series

Title: Think locally, act globally: How research from the South helped shape global child health policies.

Abstract: I will give a historical view of the creation of a research center in a remote Brazilian city in the 1980’s and how the research arising from this team has contributed to the formulation of global policies on child health and nutrition. 

Biography: Cesar Victora is Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil, where he leads the International Center for Equity in Health. Since the 1980’s, he conducted research in maternal and child health and nutrition, birth cohort studies, inequalities in health, and on the evaluation of major health programs in many countries. . He was President of the International Epidemiological Association (2011-14), and won the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award in 2017. 

All welcome