James Macinko is a Professor and researcher in public health policy and health systems research and equity, with extensive experience in primary care throughout the world, including the Brazilian Family Health Strategy. He is currently Professor of Health Policy and Management and Community Health Sciences at the UCLA FieldingSchool of Public Health. He previously held positions as Associate Professor of Public Health and Health Policy at New York University and former director of the NYU MPH program. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the Universityof Pennsylvania from 2006 to 2008 and a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil in 2002. He has worked and still works on several collaborative projects with Brazilian public health researchers and has been involved in both formal and informal consultations with the Department of Basic Care at the Brazilian Ministry of Health (DAB/MoH). This includes his participation in an international seminar on the PMAQ organized by the DAB/MoH and officialsupport to lead the edition of JACM’s supplementary number on PMAQ, published in 2017.