It is a posthumous publication that presents the main moments of the trajectory of the teacher and researcher Victor Vincent Valla. By rescuing projects and experiences that marked this trajectory, the vital link that Valla built between academia and the street is highlighted, as well as his contribution to and involvement with popular movements in Brazil, particularly by means of Education and Health, an interdisciplinary field in which he acted until the end of his life, as a teacher and researcher with the Postgraduate Program in Education of Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) and Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública (ENSP).
Popular education; Education and health; Social change