Alumni

Yale and Brazil: Highlighting Institutional Partnerships

Join us for the second virtual event in the Yale and Brazil: Supporting Future Science Research series. This webinar “Highlighting Institutional Partnerships” will feature Yale Professor Michael Cappello and Yale alumni Silvia Nunes Szente Fonseca ’90 MPH, Corporate Director of Infectious Diseases at São Francisco Hospital, and Benedito Antonio Lopes da Fonseca ’94 PhD, Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo Ribeirão Preto Medical School.

PRFDHR Seminar: Gang Rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance - Professor Chris Blattman

Gangs rule millions worldwide. Professor Chris Blattman studies how gangs govern, why, and whether the state can reclaim dominance. He first interviews dozens of gang leaders and thousands of residents in Medellin, Colombia, documenting this clandestine world. They govern to preserve local monopoly rents, but also because the state is remote. To demonstrate, Professor Blattman first harness exogenous variation in exposure to the state across internal borders. Over the long run, places more distant from police and services increase gang rule.