Op-Ed in the Miami Herald: “Populist leaders play political games with COVID-19, and people are dying”

In op-ed published in the Miami Herald this past weekend, Dr. Felicia Knaul and Dr. Michael Touchton discussed their analysis of the current situation in Latin America in regard to the pandemic of COVID-19. As COVID-related deaths in the United States and in Brazil have skyrocketed to more than one a minute (1,000 per day), […]

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Webinar – September 2nd: Policies and Perspectives

Latin America is a global hotspot for COVID-19. With only 8% of the world’s population, it has 43% of the average daily deaths (about 5.5 million). During this live webinar on September 2nd, Dr. Rafael Lozano, director of Health Systems at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations (IHME) presented projections until December 2020 for […]

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Webinar – June 25th: The Emerging Crisis in Brazil

Brazil is now the global COVID-19 hotspot with over 1,000 deaths per day and more than 1 million cases overall. President Bolsonaro’s failure to respond to the pandemic places the burden on state and local governments. During this live webinar on June 25th, world-renowned public health expert Dr. Cesar Victora shared new results from studies […]

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Recent Highlights – 6/16

The Coronavirus is killing many more young people in the developing world [Spanish; “El coronavirus está matando a muchos más jóvenes en los países en vías de desarrollo”] COVID-19 is currently making its move towards the developing world, and while doing so, is changing the profile of victims of the disease. Opposite to what was […]

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Press Conference on June 2 – Brazil Chapter Presentation

As coronavirus deaths in Brazil continue to climb, researchers and university leadership discussed the current COVID-19 containment situation in the country and the region and their findings on the impact of delayed and poorly planned responses and policies during a press conference on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Combined with previously released state-level data on Mexico […]

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