Carolina Salgado, coordinator of the Global and Collective Health research program at BPC/PUC-Rio, publishes a chapter on health cooperation in South America

Carolina Salgado, coordinator of the Global and Collective Health research program at BPC/PUC-Rio, co-authored the chapter “Health Cooperation in South America: Making the Case of a Multilayered Regionalism” with Bianca Carvalho.

The text analyzes the evolution of regional health cooperation in South America, examining both initiatives developed within the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), as well as those promoted by regional organizations such as Mercosur, the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), and the Andean Community (CAN).

The authors argue that regional health governance on the continent is marked by a multilayered regionalism, in which different institutions act in a complementary way in the coordination of policies, the dissemination of good practices, and the strengthening of health governance at the regional and global levels.