Editorial of the Special Edition 3rd CIDS Marcelo Lamy

Abstract

The 3rd International Congress on Health Law – 3rd CIDS, held on June 28, 29 and 30, 2021 by the UNISANTA Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Program in Health Law, returned to debate the specific problems that Health Law faces in the face of Social Vulnerabilities, whatever they may be.

Addressing the vulnerabilities of the elderly, children, women, people with disabilities, etc. is required by the paradigms of health law, whether the international paradigm of equity or the constitutional paradigm of equality.

Many issues were addressed at the congress, for example: Is attention to vulnerability a structuring factor in Health Law? Does the right to health of people affected by vulnerabilities have to be different? What needs to be developed or improved in the scope of public policies?

The event was attended by 6 (six) foreign researchers from 5 (five) countries: André Dias Pereira, from the University of Coimbra (Portugal); Andrea Lucas Garín, from the Institute of Law Research of the Autonomous University of Chile (Chile); Joaquín Cayón De Las Cuevas, from the Ibero-American Network of Health Law – REDISA and the University of Cantabria (Spain); Maria Esther Quintero, from the University of Salamanca (Spain); Marisa Aizenberg, from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina); and Rubém Hernán Donoso Paredes, from the Grain Guarantee Court (Chile).

In addition, 15 (fifteen) speakers from 7 (seven) states and 9 (nine) postgraduate programs participated: Assusete Magalhães, minister of the Superior Court of Justice – STJ (Brasília, DF); Edith Maria Barbosa Ramos, from the PPG in Law and Affirmation of Vulnerable People of CEUMA (São Luís, MA); Fernando Mussa Abujamra Aith, from the Center for Studies and Research in Health Law at the University of São Paulo - CEPEDISA\USP and from the Graduate Program in Public Health at USP (São Paulo/SP); Kátia Boulos, from the Family and Succession Law Association - ADFAS (São Paulo, SP); Leonardo Grecco, Judge of the Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo (Santos, SP); Maria Vital Da Rocha, from the Graduate Program in Law at the Federal University of Ceará (Fortaleza, CE); Moaci Alves Carneiro, from the National Institute for Studies and Educational Research Anísio Teixeira - INEP (Brasília, DF); Motauri Ciocchetti de Souza, from the Graduate Program in Law at the Pontifical Catholic University (São Paulo, SP); Paulo de Tarso Sanseverino, Minister of the Superior Court of Justice - STJ (Brasília, DF); Paulo Gustavo Gonet Branco, from the Graduate Program in Constitutional Law at the IDP (Brasília, DF); Reginaldo de Souza Vieira, from the Postgraduate Program in Law at UNESC (Criciúma, SC); Ricardo Maurício Freire Soares, from the Postgraduate Program in Law at UFBA (Salvador/BA); Robério Nunes Dos Anjos Filho, from the Regional Attorney's Office of the 3rd Region (São Paulo, SP); Sandra Mara Campos Alves, from the Health Law Program at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Brasília/DF); Vinícius de Negreiros Calado, from the LLM in Medical and Health Law at the Catholic University of Pernambuco (Recife, Pernambuco).

All of the event's professors participated in the event's host program - PPG in Health Law at Santa Cecília University - UNISANTA (Santos/SP): Alexandre Rocha Almeida de Moraes, Amélia Cohn, Antonio Herman de Vasconcellos and Benjamin, Fernando Reverendo Vidal Akaoui, Luciano Pereira de Souza, Marcelo Lamy, Marcos Montani Caseiro, Patricia Gorisch, Renata Salgado Leme, Renato Braz Mehanna Kamis, Rosa Maria Ferreiro Pinto, and Verônica Scriptore Freire e Almeida. All presentations by invited speakers and all congress participants (i.e., the 49 exhibitors), who were watched by over 800 (eight hundred) people registered for the event, are still available on the YouTube channel of the 3rd International Congress on Health Law: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq5AtMTktk9GhR7gn6vB0kg

In this edition of UNISANTA Law and Social Science, we are making available the scientific texts that served as the basis for the presentations by three of the event's speakers: Moaci Alves Carneiro, Leonardo Grecco and Danilo de Oliveira.

We are also making public the 21 (twenty-one) papers approved by the event's scientific committee (led by researchers Ana Carla Vasco de Toledo, José Carlos Loureiro da Silva, and Maria Cristina Gontijo Peres Valdez Silva) that reveal the concerns and views that the national and international scientific community has on the subject. The division adopted to organize these works reveals the main contributions that the event brought to the community on Social Vulnerability and Health Law: PART 1. New conceptions about traditional problems. PART 2. New temporal and spatial challenges. PART 3. Vulnerabilities and specific groups.

Special mention should be made of the 2 (two) that shared the AWARD FOR BEST WORK of the event: (1) Legal security and precedent system: study through the right to health, by João Pedro Júnior Rios, Natalie Maria de Oliveira de Almeida, and Artenira Silva e Silva; (2) Vulnerability of health plan users: analysis of repetitive appeal no. 1.809.486/SP (STJ theme no. 1032) and its possible contradiction to STJ summary 302, by Fernanda Christina Parisi Sedeh Padilha, and Luciano Pereira de Souza.

We would like to thank the members of the event's Organizing Committee: Adriana de Fátima Santos and Danilo de Oliveira, who provided academic support for the organization and execution of all the panels and conferences of the event; Andressa Félix Lisboa and Carolina Cruz Rodriguez Coelho, who generously managed all the technological equipment for all the remote meetings of the 3rd CIDS.

We would like to thank all the researchers involved for their dedication, including those who do not formally appear in this final composition, but without whom it would have been impossible to hold the congress and this compendium.

We would like to thank the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) for funding the research of some of the authors.

We would like to thank the Senior Management of Universidade Santa Cecília for their support, represented by Dr. Lúcia Maria Teixeira, president of Instituto Superior de Educação Santa Cecília, Dr. Sílvia Ângela Teixeira Penteado, dean of UNISANTA, and Dr. Marcelo Pirilo Teixeira, administrative vice-rector of UNISANTA, as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Dr. Norberto Moreira da Silva, and the Coordinator of the Law Course and the Postgraduate Program in Health Law, Dr. Fernando Reverendo Vidal Akaoui, who continually invest in the formation and structuring of centers and research activities of excellence in the Faculty of Law and in the Master's Program in Health Law. Without them, we would not have the structure to complete the production of this work.

Since May 2019, UNISANTA has become a member of the international initiative United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), due to its effective promotion of activities based on the ten principles of the initiative of the United Nations (UN): Poverty Eradication, Capacity Building, Education for All, Global Citizenship, Access to Higher Education, Human Rights, Intercultural Dialogue, Peace and Conflict Resolution, Sustainability and the Charter of the United Nations.

This edition is part of UNISANTA's activities related to this initiative, as it brings together ideas and solutions for many of the global health challenges identified in the third objective of the Sustainable Development Goals.

We wish you all a good read!

Prof. Dr. Marcelo Lamy