Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History and Director of the Halle Institute for Global Research, was recently interviewed on an episode of the podcast for the Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America. Lesser, whose current research centers on the history of public health in the city of São Paulo, discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing social inequalities for poor Brazilians. Listen to the episode (in Portuguese) here: “Ouvindo a Pandemia.”