What Brazil's Covid Response is Teaching the World — with Dr. Marcia Castro

Dr. Marcia Castro, Chair of the Dept of Global Health & Population at Harvard's T. H. Chan School of Public Health, talks about what Brazil's Covid-19 response is teaching the world about leadership, health systems, and the future of our planet.

We talk about President Bolsonaro's leadership, why Covid-19 has emerged as a disease of inequality, how Brazil's largest-in-the-world primary healthcare system could have made it a global model for pandemic management, the role of science communication in determining health outcomes, and Brazil's critical role in the vaccine effort.

About Marcia Castro:

Dr. Marcia Castro is a Professor of Demography and the Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. At Harvard, she’s also a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Brazil Studies Program. Her research focuses on vector-born disease spread and control, population dynamics, urbanization and health. She has worked extensively in the Brazilian Amazon region, as well as in Ghana and Tanzania.

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