Fiocruz welcomes applications for course on Global Health and Health Diplomacy 2025

The Fiocruz Global Health Center (Cris/Fiocruz) - PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center on Global Health Diplomacy and South-South Cooperation - is open for applications for the Course on Current Affairs in Global Health and Health Diplomacy 2025. Higher education professionals and students in the areas of health, diplomacy and international relations, human sciences, social, and the like, as well as civil society leaders who work or wish to work with global health and health diplomacy, can apply until January 24, 2025.

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The year 2025 will certainly be fascinating in the area of knowledge and practices in global health and health diplomacy. Political, social, economic, and environmental factors have a major impact on human and planetary health because they are determinants of health. These issues will be discussed in depth in the Course on Current Affairs in Global Health and Health Diplomacy.
The first edition attracted more than 800 applications with participants from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Portuguese-speaking countries, plus seven participants from French-speaking countries in Africa, which was possible thanks to simultaneous translation into Spanish and English.

Cris/Fiocruz advisor, Regina Ungerer, pointed out the high demand for the course and the motivation for this new edition: “This is the second year running that we are offering this course on Global Health and Health Diplomacy. Last year, we were very excited about the receptiveness of the course and the interest shown in the topic, which led us to improve the offer for 2025 in which we added mandatory reading from the Cris/Fiocruz Notebooks, which are published twice a month with an analysis of the most current topics in the global political and health scenario.”

Regina also stresses the importance of this new offer to participants: “It will allow us to learn about the issues discussed at meetings and conferences that permeate the most current news in the world, such as the World Health Assembly, the WHO's top decision-making body, UN General Assembly, Agenda 2030, the G-20 which has just taken place in Rio de Janeiro, COP29 and the transition to COP30, which will be held for the first time in Brazil, in Belém do Pará. And next year we'll be involved with Brazil's pro tempore presidency of the BRICS”.

The course will be held online and is organized in panel classes, called Advanced Seminars (22 in total), every two weeks, with debates between professors and
participants. The course is offered through the Virtual Campus Learning Environment, which allows synchronous interaction between students.

Through these Advanced Seminars, it is intended that participants systematically observe the global health scenario, analyzing the main political spaces of global and regional governance, global health governance, and organizations of geopolitical territories. The panelists, global and national leaders, and experts on their respective topics addressed will present cross-cutting topics of interest to global health and health cooperation. The contents are varied and related to health policy and the Global Health Agenda.

The contents are varied and related to health policy and the Global Health Agenda, such as:

· World Health Assembly (May 19 to 25, 2025)
· High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), 2024 (July 14 to 18, 2025)
· UN General Assembly (September 9 to 23, 2025)
· WHO Regional Committees
· BRICS+ Summit
· COP30 (November 10 to 21, 2025)
· Among others.

The credit hours of the course is 140 hours, every two weeks, on Wednesdays, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the distance learning modality. There will be simultaneous translation into Portuguese, Spanish and English. It is scheduled to start on February 12, 2025, and end on December 17, 2025.