João Rangel de Almeida

History of medicine and public health
Research consultancy
Public health analysis
Science and public engagement

Feb 16, 2013 1:23pm
“ How was your day? Anything good happen? I asked.
She shook her head emphatically. “Nothing good at all. It was terrible,” she said.
Though time for both of us,” I said. I leaned over and kissed her forehead, and she made the same sour face owners of snobby French restaurants produce when you hand them your American Express cad. ‘I’m sure tomorrow will be better,’ I told her. ” - Murakami, H., & Gabriel, P. (2003). South of the border, West of the sun. London: Vintage. pp. 122-3
Feb 25, 2012 7:29pm

Mendelssohn and Loewe performed by Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

Amazing music

Oct 10, 2011 9:36am

Leopold LaFosse Violin Recital

Oct 13, 2010 4:24pm

Geography and diplomacy of public health

Clearly, when the European diplomatic powers chose Versailles as the venue of the conference they limited the potential role of science and experimentation in process of constructing a common sanitary code for the Mediterranean. However, by choosing Versailles, these powers secured a venue considered to be accessible and the ‘most centrical [sic] [place] for all parties who [were] to meet.’[1] Furthermore, in the periphery of Paris, and as the governmental centre of France, Versailles was the city ‘best adapted for the purpose inasmuch as it [was] the place where all kinds of information connected with the subject matter of inquiry might most easily be obtained.’[2] More than a place to produce knowledge, Versailles was the ideal locale to procure and circulate data that could inform an effort of creating an international sanitary regulation. The proximity of governmental institutions connected to the governance of public health and the vicinity of rich libraries, offered abundant resources that could be mobilized to assess the value of quarantines and the problem of cholera aetiology.

[1] Palmerston to Marescalchi, London, 8 May 1851, TNA:PRO FO/97/210 .

[2] Ibidem

May 31, 2010 8:17pm

Thinking about the politics of modelling maternal mortality

May 29, 2010 9:37pm
Bye Tampa. Hi global public health! These last weeks at USF were great: great content, great people, and great effort to put ideas together. Now is time to return to Europe. The chapter on categorisation of diseases must be finished in a week. 

Bye Tampa. Hi global public health! These last weeks at USF were great: great content, great people, and great effort to put ideas together. Now is time to return to Europe. The chapter on categorisation of diseases must be finished in a week. 
May 15, 2010 5:17am
“ Operating in the Bolivian mountains are the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the International Development Bank, USAID, the US Drug Enforcement Administration, The british Department for International Development (DFID), just about every other rich country’s aid agency, multiple NGOs, and Bono. None of the agencies is responsible for a particular outcome. They jointly affect what happens to economic development in Bolivia, When something goes wrong in Bolivia, like the economic and political crisis in 1999-2005, after years of effort by these agencies, which one to blame? We don’t know, so no agency is accountable. This weakens the incentive of agencies to deliver results. ” - William Easterly, Planners vs Searchers in Foreign Aid, January 2006, p7
May 15, 2010 4:53am

Global public health

  • How can history contribute for a better practice of global public health?
Page 1 of 1