The theme CEDESS chose for its 30th anniversary
CEDESS, the Center for the Development of Higher Education in Health at UNIFESP’s São Paulo campus, turned 30 in 2026. The center combines research and faculty development and has held ten editions of its international seminar over those three decades.
The anniversary edition focused on Teacher Education in Health: Antiracist Education, Equity and Inclusion.
The theme is also reflected in the papers presented. Of the 56 papers published in the proceedings, 26 deal with antiracist education, equity, racial literacy or Black population health. Nearly half of the published papers. Papers such as “When the curriculum goes silent: reflections on antiracist education in the training of health professionals”, “The NEGREX Collective and the construction of antiracist education in health”, and “Path of (re)existence: analyzing the social itinerary of the Black transgender man”.
The seminar had 251 registrations and was run by a small team, with the center’s director also serving as general chair and no dedicated events secretariat. The platform supported the team throughout the organizing process and kept the papers available after the four-day program.
What the team stopped carrying alone
Galoá came in as the seminar’s scientific infrastructure: call for papers, scientific committee review, registration, check-in, certificates and proceedings publishing.
Fewer author enquiries by email
According to the organizing team, submission management helped allocate papers, simplified the process for authors, and substantially reduced author enquiries by email.
The scientific committee ran the review inside the platform, and 56 papers were approved and published in the proceedings.
Check-in the team ran on its own
On-site check-in used QR code self-service. The team ran check-in themselves, a feature the director praised during the project closing review.
Certificates issued directly by the team
Certificate issuing ran without technical trouble and was done by the center’s own team, supported by the FAQ and tutorial videos they used consistently throughout the project.
In the project closing review, she described the support as something that taught the team to solve things rather than solving them in her place. In the testimonial, what she highlights is the care: “All the care we received from the whole team so that our event could reach people”. And the support from start to finish: “Essential for the trust between us, for the quality of the platform, for the support from the very first concept all the way to the wrap-up, the post-event stage.”
What stays after the seminar ends
The 56 papers from the 10th CEDESS International Seminar are published in open access in proceedings.science, Galoá’s proceedings archive, searchable by title, author and keyword. No login, no paywall, no need to have been in the room. Anyone searching today for racial literacy in health education finds what was discussed in São Paulo in June 2026, under the name of whoever discussed it.
This is where the director’s assessment leaves the ground of software and enters the ground of the center’s identity:
“I want to highlight, important as it is, the whole aesthetic, the lightness, the absolutely friendly interface of the platform, but how much having a repository where the papers presented stay there, where the authors are present, where the women authors are present, marks the CEDESS way of being, which is a way of shared learning, of creation, of ethics, of care, of dialogical education.”
In the director’s account, preserving authorship is part of the center’s commitment to faculty development. And in a debate about antiracist education, who signs the paper is part of the argument. A repository where whoever presented remains present by name keeps the seminar teaching after it has closed.
Open access allows people who did not attend the seminar to read the papers and engage with the discussion. The archive complements the reach of the live streams and keeps the research available after the event. “A widening of the places we can reach with CEDESS, with the knowledge and the practices of everyone who was here with us”, the director sums up.
The results
- 26 of the 56 published papers address the seminar’s theme: antiracist education, equity, racial literacy and Black population health
- 56 papers reviewed by the scientific committee and published in open access in the proceedings.science archive, searchable and with authorship preserved
- 251 completed registrations at the center’s tenth international seminar
- On-site check-in run by the organizers themselves, with QR code self-service
- Certificates issued directly by the center’s team
- An average recommendation score of 9.62 out of 10 for the seminar and 9.47 out of 10 for the platform, among participants who answered at certificate issuing
When mentioning the next edition, planned for 2028, she expresses her wish to continue the partnership: “We’ll be together at the eleventh seminar, in 2028.” And she closes with what a research center director means by a result: “And so much joy in having a space for scientific dissemination that is also a space of co-construction and authorship.”