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Nelson Rodrigues dos Santos

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Dr. Nelson Rodrigues dos Santos is a public health physician and the president of the Institute of Applied Public Health Law in Campinas, São Paulo. A retired professor of public health at Unicamp, he previously served as coordinator of the Brazilian National Board of Health. In his National Board of Health post he met Pastoral da Criança founder Dr. Zilda Arns Neumann and immediately identified with her passion for community health education; he considers Pastoral an excellent example of what a partnership between the state and a philanthropic organization should be.
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