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This article analyzes the outbreak of yellow fever in Northeastern Brazil in 1926 and its related scientific developments. After the epidemic, inspections were carried out in cities where outbreaks occurred and elsewhere in order to refute the existence of yellow fever. Additionally, the Rockefeller Foundation created a yellow fever laboratory in Salvador in 1928 as part of a redirection in its activities. This paper uses Brazilian newspapers as well as correspondence, reports, and diaries from the Rockefeller Foundation to understand the specificities of the 1926 epidemic, which was of great importance for the development of international health strategies and actions for controlling yellow fever. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text analyzes the trajectory of Brazilian doctors from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute who secured Rockefeller Foundation funding to study at Johns Hopkins University between 1919 and 1924. The article is based on material from the Rockefeller Archive Center--such as correspondence between the philanthropic agency's offices in Brazil and United States--a doctoral thesis, a medical report, and oral histories. These sources help illuminate the conflicts, difficulties, and negotiations that occurred during the selection of scholars, their training in North America, and their return to Brazil. Regional and local issues and exchanges of knowledge about public health also characterized the experience of international professional training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]