The healthcare practices supported by interprofessional education (IPE) and the debate about those processes are in the early stages in Brazil (Costa, Vilar, de Azevedo, & Reeves, 2014). This does not mean that the country lacks a richness of previous experiences that are a fertile basis for expanding and strengthening IPE, being its conceptual framework and operational proposal very much in line with the cornerstones of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) (Barr, 2015). The SUS is the national public policy in health matters and is geared towards universal access, comprehensiveness, and social participation, articulated around Primary Health Care as the back- bone of the network (Brasil, 2012). In this editorial, we outline social and political processes that have contributed to the development of interprofessional practice (IPP) in Brazil.
