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Ivan Franca-Junior, MD PhD¹, Jose Ricardo Ayres, MD PhD², Vera Paiva, PhD³, and Eliana Miura Zucchi¹. (1) School of Public of Health - University of Sao Paulo, Av. Dr. Analdo, 715 sala 218, Cerqueira Cesar, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 55 11 30667127, ifjunior@usp.br, (2) School of Medicine - University of Sao Paulo, Av Dr. Arnaldo, 455 2o. andar, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (3) Insitute of Psychology - University of Sao Paulo, Av. Prof. Mello Moraes, 1721 bloco A, sala 113, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Brazil has had a strong collective health movement, which has played an important role on establishing guidelines for public health(PH) research and practice. Inspired by Marxist and other critical theories and forged fighting against dictatorship(1964-1989), it lacks a deep connection between practice and discourse of human rights (HR) movement. However, health is highly connected with HR. Thus, we have been developing, since 1998, many initiatives to introduce PH&HR in Brazilian agenda. At university, we have taught courses on HR history and theories prioritizing UN documents, and thinkers as Habermas, Bobbio and Boaventura Santos. Within health services, we have provided advisory on PH&HR for the AIDS national and Sao Paulo state programs. Regarding civil society, we have participated in many initiatives (lecturing&advisoring) along with NGOs (HIV/AIDS and child/adolescent health-related). Paulo Freire"s pedagogy which states that education must be emancipatory, dialogical and based in a problem-posing concept has been our option. “Banking” concept of education cannot be an alternative to teach PH&HR. After 8 years of work, we can say PH&HR is an emerging field, but it will take long to be an entrenched issue on health agenda. Different social actors are working with a PH&HR framework. Efforts should be kept to enhance PH&HR dissemination. Factors of resistance have been: 1)a broad social crime-related misrepresentation of human rights; 2)Brazilian collective health movement tends to see PH&HR as a liberal perspective – mechanically opposing individual to social rights; and 3)Brazilian judicial system has been pro status quo, authoritarian and disconnected from a HR perspective.

Learning Objectives:

• - to share educational experiences on public health and human rights with other developing countries
• - to discuss appropriate progressive pedagogy for different audiences

Keywords: Public Health Education, Human Rights

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation