International Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Health Promotion (PDF)

Marco Akerman is a Full Professor at the Department of Politics, Management and Health in the School of Public Health - University of São Paulo, since 2014. MD (1981) and Specialist in Public Health and Social Medicine (1983) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais; Specialist in Hospital Management for the Public Sector, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (1986); Master in Planning and Financing of the Health Sector (1989) and PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health (1993), at the University of London. Researcher of CEPEDOC WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center on Healthy Cities and Health promotion since 2000; President of the São Paulo Public Health Association (2006-2007); PAHO Regional Consultant on Local Development and Health, Regional Focus Point of Social Determinants of Health (2006-2009); Regional Vice President for Latin America of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (mandate 2010-2016); Coordinator of the WG on Health Promotion and Sustainable Development inthe Brazilian Association of Collective Health - ABRASCO (2011-2016). Main research topics: policy, programs and services evaluation; social determination; intersectoriality; SDG and health promotion.



Ana Claudia Camargo Gonçalves Germani is graduated in Medicine at the ABC Region Medical School (2000). She did a Residency Course in Preventive Medicine at the University of São Paulo Medical School (FMUSP), where she also completed a Master's (2005) and doctorate (2010). She is currently a Professor at the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of São Paulo Medical School. She has experience in health promotion, with an emphasis on reorienting health services and medical education. Her main research interests are health promotion linked to the following themes: primary health care (PHC), competencies and interdisciplinary / interprofessional education (IPE). More recently, she has also started developing research about black health equity and complementary and alternative medicine.