Bahia-Carolina Partnership, Fogarty CenterThe 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.