Showcasing Brazil and regional health leadership and opportunities in a G20 presidency year
Tuesday July 23, 2024
As Brazil takes the presidency of the #G20 in 2024, it marks the return of the summit to Latin America for the first time in six years. Much has changed and the covid-19 pandemic in particular has exposed the vast inequities in global and domestic health. In Brazil, for example, current challenges include an overburdened healthcare system, pressure from private providers and insurers, and continued misinformation and mistrust against public health. In May, as Raquel Canuto wrote in The BMJ, unprecedented flooding in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul collapsed the region’s infrastructure and healthcare systems and highlighted the intrinsic relation between climate and health.
At the same time, Brazil and other countries in Latin America are strengthening their presence in global health, as The BMJ’s regional advisory board recently highlighted by outlining key health priorities and challenges.
The G20 meetings, taking place over 2024, are a landmark opportunity not just for Brazil, but the whole region to show how health must be at the heart of building a just world and a sustainable planet.
To advance these aims, The BMJ publishes a NEW series on Brazil to influence the #G20 agenda on health. At the same time we launch a NEW spotlight on Latin America of collected content showcasing the region’s health challenges and innovations, as well as its political leadership, which holds immense promise for advancing health equity worldwide.
An analysis, Brazil should use its G20 leadership to support public health systems and promote decolonisation of global health by Deisy Ventura, Jameson Martins, Adriana Salay Leme Pamella Pereira, Paulo Roberto Trivellato and Leandro Viegas lays out how Brazil’s #G20 presidency can be used to encourage countries to move away from a market driven approach and create true universal health provision.
In a BMJ Opinion, From speech to action: using Brazil’s 2024 presidency of G20 to embed equity in global health, Vitor Ido and colleagues highlight the opportunity for Brazil to reform the whole global health architecture to embed equity and public values.
In another BMJ Opinion, Unmatched opportunity: Brazil must use its G20 presidency to focus on transformative global pacts, Paulo Buss and colleagues from Fiocruz argue that Brazil must use its #G20 leadership to transform global pacts for #health #climatecrisis #sustainable development.
Read and share The BMJ’s new Brazil series and new spotlight on Latin America’s global leadership in health – we welcome your feedback!
https://www.bmj.com/health-in-latin-america
For information about our international Collections, contact: Dr Jocalyn Clark, International Editor, Head of Scholarly Comment, The BMJ
