We are in the final days of preparing to leave for Brazil, where our students will learn about global public health research with a focus on collective health, health promotion and epidemiology as conducted in Salvador, Brazil.
The aim is to prepare our students to be informed and exposed to current public health issues from a global perspective.
Students will live with Brazilian families, providing them with additional insight into the daily lives of people in this city, the capital of the state of Bahia and home to a unique Afro-Brazilian culture.
Students will receive in-class instruction, take part in public health field trips in the city of Salvador, participate in an applied research project and study Portuguese. Instruction will be provided by professors from Georgia State University and the Institute of Collective Health at the Federal University of Bahia (ISC) as well as through the Associação Cultural Brasil-Estados Unidos (ACBEU).
Check back at this site in mid-May to read entries by our students as they start their academic adventure in Brazil