For this issue of Interface, we interviewed five professionals whose origins and life histories are different, but whose praxis has been constructed around the principles of Popular Education and Health. These individuals are: Selvino Heck, Special Assessor of the General Secretary of the Presidency of Brazil, Director of the Popular Education and Activism Department of the National Secretariat of Social Articulation, and Executive Secretary of the National Agro-ecology and Organic Production Committee; Regina Helena Simões Barbosa, professor and researcher at the Public Health Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Ivanilde Batista, Staff member of the Health Department of the State of Goiás, founder and militant of ANEPS-GO; Paulette Cavalcanti, professor and researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Pernambuco; and Julio Alberto Wong Un, professor and researcher at the Public Health Institute of the Fluminense Federal University.
Popular Education and Health; Social activism; Popular participation