On May 22nd and 23rd, 2025, at an event in Mexico City, Director Pedro Dallari presented the research results on health conducted at IRI-USP

On May 22nd and 23rd, 2025, Professor Pedro Dallari, Director of the Institute of International Relations (IRI) at the University of São Paulo (USP), represented IRI at the FIFARMA Annual Summit 2025, held in Mexico City and promoted by the Latin American Federation of the Pharmaceutical Industry (Fifarma).

At the event, which was attended by public authorities, representatives from the pharmaceutical industry and social organizations, as well as researchers from Latin American and U.S. universities, Professor Dallari presented the results of research carried out in 2023 and 2024 at IRI. This research was part of an agreement with Fifarma and resulted in the book Financiamiento de la Salud Pública en América Latina: estudios sobre Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México y Perú, published by IRI in 2024.

The research and the book were coordinated by Professor Dallari and IRI researcher Guillermo Aponte, with participation from Professors Adriana Schor, Daniela Carla Decaro Schettini, Maria Antonieta Del Tedesco Lins, Marislei Nishijima, and Natália Dus Poiatti from IRI, as well as Flávia Mori Sarti from the School of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities (EACH). The book is freely accessible at https://www.livrosabertos.abcd.usp.br/portaldelivrosUSP/catalog/book/1419.

Click here to access the full event program.

Alongside Sinan Atlig, president of Pfizer's Latin America cluster, and other guests, Professor Pedro Dallari participated in a panel at the FIFARMA Annual Summit 2025.

Professor Danielle Hanna Rached (IRI-USP) participated in several academic activities in Bergen, Norway, in April.

As a visiting professor at the University of Bergen and the Center on Law & Social Transformation, Prof. Danielle Rached gave the following lectures:

a) Autocratization and the Climate Agenda: a Latin American perspective

b) Navigating the Divide: Challenges for Brazil's Climate Agenda Between Bolsonaro and Lula (Seminar for the Department of Political Science at the University of Bergen)

c) Brazil’s leadership on climate change: COP30 and Trump 2.0.

Presentation

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