Public Health in the Lusophone World: reflecting from and beyond the COVID emergency

Abstract

The author analyzes the book Responsibility for Public Health in the Lusophone World: Doing Justice In and Beyond the COVID Emergency, published in March of 2021, which results from the development of a project financed by the World Health Organization (WHO), carried out by the Legal Institute of the University of Coimbra, in partnership with researchers from other universities from several Portuguese-speaking countries (University of the Azores, José Eduardo dos Santos University, Eduardo Mondlane University, University of Macau and Osvaldo Cruz Foundation). The study enriches our knowledge of ethical and legal issues arising from the pandemic, with a focus on what happens in Portuguese-speaking countries. The author also presents other studies that allow an integrated view of this project, in the international and European context, throwing cues for reflection for future scientific projects, which promote the much-needed interdisciplinarity, also in the fields of public health.