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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:
Thematic
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.
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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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To fulfill its mission to produce, disseminate and share knowledge facing strengthening of the Unified Health System (SUS), Fiocruz has several publications. They are books, scientific journals, magazines and newsletters, prepared in order to meet the needs of the Foundation's vast and heterogeneous audience.
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VideoSaúde Distributor
The VideoSaúde Distributor of Fiocruz carries out research, acquisition, cataloging, treating, production and distribution of audiovisual on health. The collection is available to registered users, including agencies and institutions of the Unified Health System (SUS), private schools, students, NGOs and community organizations, and individual users. The VideoSaúde Distributor is linked to the Institute of Scientific and Technological Communication and Information in Health (ICICT), which coordinates, also the participation of Fiocruz in Rio de Janeiro University…
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The Fiocruz Libraries Network, coordenated by the Institute of Scientific and Technological Information and Communication in Health (ICICT), gathers thousands of publications adquired since the foundation of the institution, at 1900. The network integrates libraries situated at Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Manaus, Recife, Brasília and at several documentation centers.
The website of the libraries network gathers information about each library and the services they offer, as literature search, local and remote query, home loan, interlibrary loan and user training. At the web site…
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Collaborating Centre for Quality of Care and Patient Safety (Proqualis), linked to the Institute of Scientific and Technological Communication and Information in Health (ICICT), develops from the fact that one of the most important aspects for the improvement of health care provided to patients and to adopt measures to ensure their safety is dissemination of wide selected, updated and quality information for all involved in the chain of supply of such care.
From doctors, nurses and other health professionals to the patients themselves and the public in general. Consequently their…
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The country’s main agency when dealing with technological issues and standards for assessing the quality of inputs, products, environments and services in the health sector is the National Institute for Quality Assurance in Health (INCQS), which comprises the National System of Sanitary Surveillance, and has a background of over 30 years worth of experience. Among the products assessed by INCQS, one can highlight generic and reference drugs, as well as a project in cooperation with the People’s Pharmacy Program; purified water for hemodialysis, aimed at improving the treatment provided to…
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The reference laboratories of Fiocruz represent a set of services for the diagnosis of compulsory disease reports. Perform laboratory tests of high complexity, associated with the development of research that assists in epidemiological surveillance, health and environmental and clinical care of patients.
The activities of these laboratories are associated with research and technological development. Accordingly, they generate knowledge, processes and products, such as defining methodologies, diagnostic validation, assistance in specific areas, technological development, human resource…
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Population Health
Fiocruz's units offer various health services, always articulated with teaching and research activities. The criteria for treatment varies according to the specially and with the core to which they are linked. In general, it is necessary that patients are referred by other health services, referenced to the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), and some specialties of the Germano Sinval Faria School Health Center, the service is a priority for residents in the neighborhood of Manguinhos where is located the headquarters of the Foundation, in Rio de Janeiro.
Women, child and…
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A patent is a title that grants to its holder the right to exclusive use of an invention for a specified period. In exchange for this monopoly, the invention must be released to the society with the aim to promote development. After the end of that period, the patent becomes public domain, i.e., it may be used by everyone.
The research and technological development activities at Fiocruz generated several requests for patent protection, since the area of Technology Management was created at Fiocruz in 1986.
Among the technology areas in which Fiocruz has request of pledge of the patent,…
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The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation produces kits and reagents for diagnosing several diseases, aiming to meet the endemic and injury control programs from the National Health Foundation (Funasa) and sexually transmitted diseases. Those kits are developed in Biomanguinhos, manufacturing unit that is located in their central campus, in Rio de Janeiro. They are:
NAT HIV/HCV
It supplements the serology tests offered at the blood centers all over the country, increasing safety on transfusions. It uses an automated platform with a large capacity of processing that allows simultaneous analysis of up to…
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Farmanguinhos, one of the Fiocruz’s production units, guarantees, for brazilian people, the access to essential drugs, such as antibiotics, anti-inflammatory, anti-infectious medicines, painkillers.
The Institute support Federal Government strategic programs, producing drugs for endemic diseases, such as TB and malaria, for central nervous system, and for diabetes and hypertension.
Among the most important products offered by Farmanguinhos to the government programs, is the Artesunate + Mefloquine (ASMQ), an innovative medicine against malaria, developed with international partners.…
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The Immunobiological Technology Institute (Biomanguinhos) guarantees the brazilian self-sufficiency in essential vaccines to respond to public health demands of the brazilian vaccination schedule of the Ministry of Health.
The institute is basically oriented to produce vaccines to DTP and Hib, yellow fever, haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), meningitis A and C, poliomyelitis and the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR).
DTP and Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib)
The institute produces the combined DTP and Haemophilus influenzae B (Hib) vaccine is also known as tetravalent,…
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Biological collections are groups of organisms, or parts thereof, organized to provide information about origin, collection and identification of each of its specimens. At Fiocruz, the oldest collections began to be composed in the early 20th century, when, during scientific expeditions, institutional researchers collected, analyzed and deposited biological material from different regions of Brazil. Currently, there are 33 collections that are institutionally recognized and that have the support of Fiocruz for its maintenance and safeguarding.
They are divided into five categories:…
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Research Ethics Committee
The Research Ethics Committee (CEP) analyzes and evaluates the ethical aspects of experimental projects involving human participants, to ensure the welfare of those involved and the compliance with current legislation. In the CEP Fiocruz, some units of the Foundation have their own committees, with the same responsibilities and prerogatives. Additional information on CEP can be obtained by e-mail etica@fiocruz.br, by phone (55) (21) 3882-9000 (ext 9011) or by fax (55) (21) 2561-4815. The committee is administered by the Vice Presidency for Research and…
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All technical and scientific Fiocruz's units develop programs for post-graduate studies with doctoral programs and academic or professional master. There are 32 programs, entered in ten areas of evaluation of the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes).
The Foundation also offers several post-graduation courses (specialization, improvement, upgrade and residence), and professional education through the Polytechnic School of Health Joaquim Venâncio (EPSJV).
Also available are post-graduation courses and professional education in distance mode.
How to be a student at…
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