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On behalf of the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and IHPME…

A seminar with Valeria Aoki (Professor of Dermatology at the University of São Paulo School of Medicine)

This is a hybrid event co-hosted by the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health’s Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and Centre for Global Health.

Please note that in-person spaces for this event are limited.

Speaker: Professor Valeria Aoki

Speaker Bio: Professor Valeria Aoki graduated and completed her residency in Dermatology at the University of São Paulo School of Medicine (FMUSP). She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Immunodermatology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI, USA as a Dermatology Foundation scholarship recipient. She obtained her PhD in Dermatology in 1999 from the FMUSP and became a faculty member at USP in 2002. She is currently the Deputy Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Dermatology and the President of the International Relations Office at the University of São Paulo School of Medicine.

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