For 55 years, the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine (SBMT) has held MedTrop (Congress of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine) a large and important multidisciplinary event, which in September 2020 will hold its 56th edition in the city of Belém do Pará, where at the same time, it will have the Applied Research Meeting on Chagas Disease and Leishmaniasis (Chagasleish), the Malaria Research Meeting and the workshop on vectors of tropical diseases (Entomol).