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The popularization of science and public health was a major reason for the choice by the Editors of CSP to illustrate the covers of the journal’s 2017 editions with the theme Street Art 1 1. Carvalho MS, Coeli CM, Lima LD. Dias melhores virão! Cad Saúde Pública 2017; 33: e00212016.. This same choice served as the inspiration for organizing the first internship program in science publishing in Brazil. Just as many people believe that the urban canvases covering cities are hardly appropriate for conveying the nobility and beauty of grand works of art, many also believe that researchers-in-training are not fit to learn the grand art of publishing.

Free art on the streets acts as a medium for communication by citizens and society. Its forms of representation reveal the desires, challenges, creativity, and culture that exists in each given place. In addition to entertaining commuters and passersby, free art is a space for political expression and activism by the people, especially marginalized sectors. The originality in each art work’s expression produces an irreproducible unicity. As CSP has taught us, that’s how science publishing should be: free, autonomous, independent, and full of personality and the desire to innovate. Singular in its identity and plural in the diversity and dynamics of its action. Attuned to the political scenario and marked by a public stance in defense of the right to health as an inalienable good.