Evandro Chagas Institute Evandro Chagas Institute The Evandro Chagas Institute (Portuguese Instituto Evandro Chagas, or IEC) is a non-profit organization which promotes public health in Brazil named after Evandro Chagas. In the 1940s fisherman Henrique Penna from the Rockefeller Foundation in Rio de Janeiro reported that he had discovered cases of leishmaniasis in Brazil's countryside. The disease had not been previously detected in Brazil, and as a response, Carlos Chagas of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute organized a commission leishmaniasis to be headed by his son Evandro Chagas. In 1938 this commission became the "Instituto de Pathologia Experimental do Norte", or Northern Institution for
The McKell Institute The McKell Institute The McKell Institute is an Australian public policy institute dedicated to developing practical policy ideas and contributing to public debate. The McKell Institute was launched in April 2012. It is named after William McKell, the 27th Premier of New South Wales and 12th Governor-General of Australia. The McKell Institute released its first report in 2012 titled "Homes for All: The 40 things we can do to improve supply and affordability". The Institute conducts an annual survey, The State of New South Wales, which charts the views of NSW residents on a range of social and economic issues.