The Bahia-Carolina Project: A North-south Partnership for Workplace and Environmental Justice
Vilma S. Santana, MD, PhD, lnstituto de Saude Coletiva, Universidade Federal de Bahia
Dama P. Loomis, PhD, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The origin of the Bahia-US training program in occupational and environmental health is rooted in the long term ties built by faculty and former students from the Federal University of Bahia, mainly from the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Medical School, who came to the graduate program in Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at UNC-CH.
Will Frazier, Gillings School News, August 13, 2021
In late May, Vilma S. Santana, MD, PhD, alumna of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, was inducted into the Academia de Medicine da Bahia (Bahia Academy of Medicine). This honor recognizes her dedication to a career of education, research and forming partnerships to advance public health globally.