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Currently we live in a time of change and technological advancement allowing the migration from the printed book to the digital medias. Digital Laboratory of Rare Collection arises to implement the concept of preservation and access to treasures of Rare Publications Section from Biomedical Science Library situated at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Thus making possible the preservation of the information and the access to it at the same time.The online availability provides an easy consultation with different portable devices, making the access more interactive and flexible regarding the traditional…
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes original researches throughout the fields of tropical medicine (including pathology, field epidemiology and clinical studies) medical parasitology (including protozoology, helminthology, entomology and malacology), and medical microbiology (virology, bacteriology and mycology). The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), responsible for assessing the relevance of scientific journals around the world, testified that the Memory is the most prestigious in Latin America and stands out as one of the most…
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The Foundation is installed in 10 states and has an office in Maputo, capital of Mozambique, Africa. Beside the institutes based in Rio de Janeiro, Fiocruz has units in the Northeast, North, Southeast and Southern of Brazil. From its expansion projects were created basis for the institutionalization of the offices in Ceará, Mato Grosso do Sul, Piaui and Rondônia. Altogether, there are 16 scientific and technical units, focused on teaching, research, innovation, assistance, technological development and extension in the health field. There is also a technical unit for support, acting in…
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Fiocruz has established its headquarters in the campus located in Manguinhos in the North of Rio de Janeiro state, where are the historic buildings of the former Federal Serum Therapy Institute (Instituto Soroterápico Federal). - as the Moorish Pavilion, the Pavilion of the Clock and Stable. Other six units are in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Recife, Manaus, Brasilia and Curitiba. Besides, there are new units that are being structured, as part of the national expansion project of Fiocruz, relating to policies for decentralization of research and training of human…
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These are the major partnerships established between Fiocruz and Brazilian companies in the last five years:
Alvos Consultoria, Desenvolvimento e Comercialização de Produtos Biotecnológicos S.A.
Bioaptus Consultoria & Serviços de Biotecnologia Ltda
Boeringer Ingelheim do Brasil Química e Farmacêutica Ltda
Br3 S.A
Bristol Meyers Squibb Farmacêutica S.A.
Cristália Produtos Químicos Farmacêuticos Ltda
Cyg Biotech Química & Farmacêutica Ltda
Glaxosmithkline do Brasil (GSK)
Ilusis Sistemas Interativos Ltda
Paraná Institute of Technology
Pharmaceutical…
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In the government sector, cooperation agreements have been signed under the Productive Development Program (PDP) with the purpose of establishing a permanent structure of cooperation to perform activities related to policy of health, science and technology and industrial development. The entry of Fiocruz in the markets currently controlled by multinational companies - such as the use of monoclonal antibodies for cancer and rare diseases, autoimmune diseases, degenerative diseases, therapeutic vaccines, among others - increases the possibilities of establishing of partnerships for technology…
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The result of several contracts to technical and scientific cooperation between Fiocruz and the international pharmaceutical industry is to nationalization of the production of strategic inputs for the Brazilian public health, essential dynamic to strengthening of the national pharmaceutical chemistry industry, reducing dependence on foreign and security access of the population to medicines. The estimative is that partnerships provide, by 2017, saving hundreds of millions of dollars to state coffers. In addition to financial return, the public system will incorporate the production…
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Fiocruz firms agreements with several Brazilian institutions, entity companies, aiming to expand and improve its activities of research, technological development and human resource training. Its partners include universities, research centers, government agencies and private entities.Additional information on national agreements can be obtained from the Strategic Planning Directory (Diplan).
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The Coordination of Social Cooperation aims to foment, monitoring and coordination of social projects developed by Fiocruz. Leads and induces the production, dissemination and sharing of knowledge and social technologies developed through inclusive and participatory methodologies, aimed at reducing social and environmental inequalities based on values of solidarity and human rights, transparency, social dialogue and participatory democracy.
Its mission is in line with the Fiocruz positioning, which states the need to reduce vulnerabilities and risks related to social determinants of health -…
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Social Communication Coordination (CCS), linked to the Presidency of Fiocruz, is responsible for defining guidelines and centralizing the communication work of the institution. It operates in three axes: press and journalistic production, internal communication, institutional communication and formation of the public image of the Foundation. The communication centers, formed in different units of Fiocruz, working in an integrated way to the CCS. It is responsible for guide, articulate and accompany them with regard to the implementation and execution of communication strategies.
The purpose…
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The Internal Audit (Audin) is responsible for verifying the management of Fiocruz. The agency aims to inspecting, certify the legality and legitimacy of the acts of the Foundation, and examine its results in terms of economy, efficiency and effectiveness of the budgetary, financial, property, personnel management and other administrative systems operational. The Internal Audit represents Fiocruz with the Internal Control System of the Federal Executive Power of the Federal Court of Auditors.
With a preventive action, the agency seeks to avoid committing mistakes and improprieties that may…
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The Federal Attorney by the Fiocruz, created by Law No. 10480 of July 2, 2002, integrating the Federal Attorney General (PGF), an agency of the Federal Attorney's Office (AGU).
As part of Fiocruz, Federal Attorney is an agency of direct and immediate assistance to the president and other leaders of the institution. It acts through the Bidding and Contracts Coordination and the Consulting Coordination in the prior examination of the legality of administrative acts and orientation of public managers in performing their activities, observing, always, the constitutional principles of Public…
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The Vice-Presidency of Research and Biological CollectionsReference Laboratory (VPPCB) aimed on obtaining knowledge for health promotion and prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases prevalent in the country. This knowledge must be obtained through the development of principles of conduct and practices of integrity in research, with the basic values the reliability, impartiality, transparency, recognition of the credit of everyone involved and everyone's responsibility relating to the future effects in human beings, animals and environment.
The department is divided in three areas:…
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The Vice-Presidency of Environment, Healthcare and Health Promotion (VPAAPS) coordinates, formulates, consolidates and promotes the synergy of actions, actors and units of Fiocruz in the areas of environment, healthcare and health promotion with an integrated manner in order to respond to the needs of the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) considering social determinants of health.
This department seeks to foment the evaluation, deployment and management policies that promote sustainable development, expanding access to health and quality of care from social needs, especially in…
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The Vice-Presidency of Education, Information and Communication (VPEIC) has the mission of develop actions of coordination and integration of projects, modernizing practices, promote and support innovative initiatives in the education and scientific health information area. The purpose is to foment, integrate and enhance the activities of Fiocruz relating to education, information and communication.
The acting in the education segment covers from the technical courses to graduate level courses. In the information and communication area, the performance involves the academic, scientific and…
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The Vice-presidency of Administration and Institutional Development (VPGDI) is responsible for coordinating the democratic system of governance of the organization to strategic management, through formulation of policies, programs and projects, and establishing viable mechanisms that promote institutional strengthening.
Among its activities, the departament is dedicated to create, develop and improve the innovative instruments of governance and management, seeking for continuous performance management with organizational growth and sustainability.
Its functional structure is composed of the…
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The Fiocruz libraries are coordinated in a network of cooperation, which aims to qualify the customer service and enhance their actions for the dissemination of scientific and technological information in health. The library collections are available in various units of the Foundation.
Part of the group of physical libraries:
Biomedical Sciences Library
Public Health Library
Women and Children Health Library
Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnical School of Health Library - Emília Bustamante
Library of Science and Health History / Owsaldo Cruz House (COC)
Worker Health and Human Ecology…
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The main objective of the project is to be a collaborative site between public health academic institutions,offering a holistic view of the public health dissertations and theses.
Therefore the knowledge on public health contained in scientific articles and thesis are gathering into a main search tool. The visitant can find brazilian scientific production, linking to full texts or identifying the library where the original can be found.
Thesis Portal contains bibliographic index, audio interviews with authors, news about defenses and related sites.
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Attuned to national and international debates on open access to knowledge, Fiocruz officially launched, in April 2011, its institutional repository, named Arca and managed by the Institute of Scientific and Technological Information and Communication in Health (ICICT).
The Arca aims to widely host and provide the Fiocruz intellectual production, in consonance with the movement for open access to scientific information.
With the repository, research papers, theses and dissertations, technical reports, videos and a large range of digital content originating in research, teaching and technology…
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Virtual health libraries are a project led by the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (Bireme/Paho), along with the Ministry of Health for the expansion of free access to health information.
The Institute of Communication and Information Science and Technology in Health (ICICT) coordinates virtual libraries in various subjects, gathering at the Virtual Health Library (BVS Fiocruz) (english). The BVS Fiocruz portal offers access to ten thematic virtual libraries and to three biographical ones. They are:
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BVS Public Health (portuguese)BVS Maternal Breast…
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Cadernos de Saúde Pública/Reports in Public Health (CSP) - is a monthly journal produced by Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (Ensp). The journal publishes original articles on public health, including epidemiology, nutrition, health planning, ecology, environmental health, and social sciences in health, among other related fields. All articles are carefully reviewed by the CSP editorial board, organized on the basis of the peer review system. Submissions are accepted in portuguese, spanish, or english. See the instructions for authors at the CSP’s website.
Ciência & Saúde…
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In addition to the Fiocruz Publishing House, which concentrates most of the releases of the Foundation, other units also publish works of scientific nature. Many of these titles are available as free access, in consonance with the policy of knowledge democratization.
Fiocruz Publishing House
Founded in 1993, the Fiocruz Publishing House aims to spread the scientific knowledge in the areas of public health, giving visibility to research results.With over 330 titles in the catalog, it publishes works that disseminate not only the academic production of Fiocruz, but also other important studies…
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1900 - Establishment of the Serum-Therapeutic Institute on May, 25.
1904 - Beginning of the construction of the Plague Pavilion, Stables, Aquarium and Dove House construction.
1905 - Beginning of the Moorish Pavilion construction. The name of the Serum-Therapeutic Institute is changed to Manguinhos Experimental Pathology Institute.
1907 - Oswaldo Cruz is awarded with a gold medal at the 14th International Congress of Hygiene and Demography in Berlin for the sanitation work carried out in Rio de Janeiro.
1908 - Decree 6892 changes the name of the the Manguinhos…
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Son of the doctor Bento Gonçalves Cruz and Amália Taborda de Bulhões Cruz, Oswaldo Cruz was born on 5 August 1872 in the city of São Luís de Paraitinga, São Paulo. He lived there until 1877, when his father was transferred to Rio de Janeiro. He studied at the Laure and São Pedro de Alcântara Colleges and at the Dom Pedro II Day School.
At the age of fifteen, he was admitted to the Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Medicine. Before finishing the course he had already published two articles on microbiology in the Brasil Médico journal. On 24 December 1892, he qualified as a medical doctor, with a…
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Fiocruz develops a range of activities related to the handling, processing, preservation, distribution and dissemination of scientific and technological information needed for actions in public health and science and technology in the health area. Tools for dissemination include scientific publications of international reference, audiovisual productions (especially Canal Saúde and VídeoSaúde), broadcasting programs on public access channels, in educational and cable TV, and community and university TV channels.
Fiocruz publishing house also plays a fundamental role in this sector, focusing on…
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To promote health and social development, to forge and disseminate scientific and technological knowledge, to be an agent of citizenship. These are the concepts that have guided Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, known as Fiocruz), attached to the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the most prominent science and technology health institution in Latin America.
Inaugurated on May 25, 1900 under the name of Federal Serotherapy Institute, Fiocruz was given the mission of fighting the great problems of public health in Brazil. Therefore, Fiocruz became a think tank concerned with…
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The high technological complexity of products and services is a feature of the health sector. Therefore, the relationship between the scientific base of universities and institutes and the pharmaceutical industry is a necessary condition for national technological advance in this segment. One strategy already adopted and consolidated by the countries that are at the cutting edge of technological development and that, from the advent of the Innovation Law - Law 10.973/2004 - has been increasingly embraced by Brazilian institutions.
Within this context, Fiocruz, in performing its role in the…
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