Jose Rodrigues Freire Filho, PhD
Consultant Panamerican Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Professor University of Sao Paulo - Brazil
University of Sao Paulo and PAHO/WHO
José Rodrigues Freire Filho is a pharmacist with a PhD in interprofessional education. He is a researcher and professor at the Department of Social Medicine in the Ribeirão Preto Medical School of the University of São Paulo (FMRP-USP), Brazil. He is a founding member of the Regional Network for Interprofessional Education in the Americas (REIP). His experience incorporates leadership and management of IPECP policy development, as well as strategic activities, such as IPE faculty development and IPECP research and training.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

In this Lightning Talk, the evolution and vision of InterprofessionalResearch.Global’s (IPR.Global) Knowledge Network will be presented. IPR.Global is an international network of scholars, leaders, service providers, decision-makers, administrators, service-users, and students that promote and advocate for evidence-informed, theory-driven, methodologically rigorous interprofessional education for collaborative practice (IPECP) research, practices, and policies. Originally formed as an IPR.Global knowledge exchange working group in early 2019, the purpose was to ensure that the most relevant…