ABSTRACT
This article discusses the role of interdisciplinarity in analyzing and dealing with the global health and social crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It defends the need to rethink the divisions between the natural world and society, with emphasis on the environmental issue, and the new conformation of the field of information and communication and its impacts on contemporary society. The COVID 19 pandemic is understood as an entirely new phenomenon that highlights, sometimes accelerating, a series of trends, but which may imply inflections and changes whose direction is not given. The centrality of the field of collective health in the interdisciplinary effort to define scientific agendas and also public policy proposals is highlighted. It is concluded that the strengthening of interdisciplinary research, especially attentive to the interrelationships of natural and social systems, is and will be essential for overcoming the current crisis and probable future health emergencies.
KEYWORDS
Interdisciplinary placement; Health; Community; COVID-19 pandemic; Social sciences.