Abstract

The successful trajectory of ABRASCO in representing the Brazilian Public Health community is expressed through the multiple activities of the articulated set of disci-plinary fields comprising it. The work developed by the successive leaders, supported also by well-defined work committees and side by side with the allied movements of the Health Reform, has provided substantive elements for the definition and implementation of public health policies in Brazil with repercussions beyond our borders. In the specific case of epidemiology, the Committee set in 1984 represented and still represents an important forum for the development and proposal of policies for the sustainable development of this discipline, having as a central guideline its insepara-ble articulation with the remaining disciplinary field of modern Public Health. Under this perspective, one of the greatest accomplishments of the Committee is expressed through the creation and support of the Brazilian Journal of Epidemiology (

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