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A Diretoria de Recursos Humanos (Direh) informa que a posse dos candidatos aprovados no último concurso como excedentes terá início na próxima quarta-feira (17/6), no auditório da Coordenação de saúde do Trabalhador (CST), localizado no pavilhão Carlos Augusto da Silva.
Os trabalhadores da unidade estão finalizando os últimos procedimentos relacionados à infraestrutura do local. Já está disponível aos candidatos nomeados e aptos no exame admissional o acesso à agenda para marcar a data da posse. O agendamento se dá exclusivamente por meio do Guia de Admissão e Integração de Servidores da…
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The first generation of children affected by the microcephaly outbreak in 2015 are now around ten years old. Only a minority of these children survived their first year of life. Behind the condition that determines the lives of so many Brazilian children is the set of sequelae of Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS), a disease that hinders the size of the head and the formation of neurons. They are those most vulnerable to serious complications, combined diseases, and long hospitalization periods, according to research by the Center for the Integration of Data and Knowledge for Health (Cidacs/…
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The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has published a collection of studies selected by its editors as the most notable and impactful of 2024 in clinical medicine. Among the 14 selected is the work Live, Attenuated, Tetravalent Butantan-Dengue Vaccine in Children and Adults, in which two researchers from Fiocruz Bahia were involved, Aldina Barral and Viviane Boaventura.
Butantan-Dengue (Butantan-DV) is an experimental, single-dose, live-attenuated, tetravalent dengue vaccine that has assessed overall efficacy in an ongoing double-blind phase 3 study in Brazil. Participants were randomly…
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This year marks a decade since the United Nations (UN) established February 11th as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The creation of the date draws attention to the importance of seeking gender equity in scientific careers, a space where, for example, the "scissors effect" still prevails: the fact that, although there are already more women than men entering many fields, it is men, and not women, who occupy the majority of leadership positions.
Especially in the last decade, there have been important advances in tackling this inequality. We can mention, for example,…
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Developed with the participation of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz), the first molecular diagnostic kit for rotavirus and norovirus in Brazil should contribute to the surveillance of pathogens and the investigation of outbreaks of acute diarrhea. The innovation has been approved by the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa). The quadriplex test allows for four simultaneous investigations, including rotavirus, two norovirus genogroups and an internal control, which increases the reliability of the results.
The kit was developed by the Molecular Biology Institute of Paraná (IBMP)…
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A Vice-Presidência de Atenção, Ambiente, Promoção de Saúde (VPAAPS/Fiocruz) está participando da organização do Congresso Nacional de Estudantes de Agronomia (Conea), o qual está na sua 64ª edição e será sediado na Fiocruz Mata Atlântica (FMA), em Jacarepaguá. Essa colaboração é essencial para o sucesso do evento e para a promoção da agroecologia e na formação de agrônomos populares. O Conea acontecerá de 15 a 19 de novembro e vai integrar parte da programação da Cúpula dos Povos do G-20, com previsão de abrigar mais de 200 estudantes de todo país
A abertura do evento ocorre, no dia 15…
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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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O novo Boletim InfoGripe, divulgado nesta quinta-feira (14/11), destaca aumento de casos graves de Síndrome Respiratória Aguda Grave (SRAG) no Rio de Janeiro em praticamente todas as faixas etárias. Nas crianças e adolescentes o aumento está associado ao rinovírus, enquanto que nos idosos está relacionado à Covid-19, embora as hospitalizações por Covid-19 nessa faixa etária já apresentem sinal de desaceleração. A atualização mostra que o estado de Goiás também apresenta aumento dos casos de SRAG entre crianças, adolescentes e idosos. Referente à Semana Epidemiológica (SE) 45, período de 3 a 9…
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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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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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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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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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A Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio, da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (EPSJV/Fiocruz), promove, no dia 3 de dezembro, o primeiro webinário internacional do ciclo Crise Estrutural do Capital e Emergência Climática na perspectiva da Determinação Socioambiental da Saúde. Com o tema Crise ou colapso do metabolismo socioecológico? Circuitos do capital produtores de danos ao ambiente e à saúde coletiva, o evento acontece a partir das 13h, em formato presencial no Auditório da Escola Politécnica, no campus Manguinhos da Fiocruz, no Rio de Janeiro; e terá transmissão e tradução ao vivo pelo…
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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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We are currently experiencing an urgent climate concern. In Brazil, intense drought, devastating fires in several biomes and disasters such as the rains that hit the south of the country this year. In the world, floods in the Sahara and in many other countries, rising temperatures and sea levels. For the field of history, although today studies dealing with climate change are more topical than ever, this is not a new subject, since many authors in the 18th and 19th centuries were already thinking about health and disease based on their relationship with the environment and climate. This is…
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The T20 Summit – a G20 engagement group formed by think tanks, research centers, and high-level experts from participating and invited countries – met on November 11-12, 2024, in Rio de Janeiro to conclude the work carried out throughout the year, with more than 300 policy briefs produced and disseminated, presenting proposals to leaders at the Rio 2024 Summit, which took place on November 19-20.
Fiocruz submitted between 15 and 20 policy briefs to the T20 and was the primary driver of discussions related to health, particularly in two of the six task forces where the texts were grouped: Task…
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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) announced on 11/12 that Brazil is once again measles-free. The official certificate was presented to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Minister of Health, Nísia Trindade. In a ceremony at PAHO's headquarters in Brasília, also on Tuesday, researchers and health authorities who contributed directly to regaining certification were honored by the organization. The ceremony was attended by the director of PAHO, Jarbas Barbosa, the organization's representative in Brazil, Socorro Gross, and Minister Nísia.
Marilda Siqueira was honored with…
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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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Fiocruz has a strategic role in Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I) in health in the country, from the formulation of public policies to the delivery of medical products, diagnosis and health processes, always with added value for society. The Vice Presidency of Research and Biological Collections (VPPCB) is responsible for proposing guidelines for institutional research and contributes with investments in ST&I for the generation of knowledge and for the training and qualification of human resources, through internal calls for projects and research grants.
VPPCB also coordinates…
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The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, through the Leônidas and Maria Deane Institute (ILMD/Fiocruz Amazônia) and the Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (Cidacs/Fiocruz), together with the University of Glasgow's School of Health & Wellbeing in the United Kingdom, have opened a selection process for proposals from young Brazilian and British PhD holders who wish to participate in the Amazonia BR/UK Workshop. The event will discuss the role of the Amazon in the context of climate change and will be held in June 2025 in the city of Manaus.
The deadline for submitting proposals is…
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The executive director of the Pasteur Network, Rebecca Grais, visited Fiocruz on Thursday (2/6) to discuss an even greater role for the Foundation in 2025. Received by president Mario Moreira at the Moorish Castle, she met with members of the Office, the Fiocruz Global Health Center (Cris/Fiocruz), and the Immunobiological Technology Institute (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz) to see what this participation might look like.
Rebecca Grais met with Mario Moreira and other members of Fiocruz at the Moorish Castle (photo: Pedro Linger)
Elected last year as the Network's regional representative for the…
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The president of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira, participated this Friday (1/31) in the launch of the 4th 100 Days Mission Implementation Report at an event held by the International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat (IPPS). The IPPS, in collaboration with the Government of South Africa and the South African Medical Research Council, organized the event. The Foundation's president participated in a panel on strengthening Public-Private Partnerships and a workshop on building research and development ecosystems for pandemic preparedness and response.
Moreira highlighted the importance of…
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Since the end of 2023, several outbreaks of Oropouche fever have occurred in the Region of the Americas. In Brazil alone, there were more than 17,400 cases between 2023 and 2025, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Fulfilling its mission to provide answers to public health, professionals from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) have been contributing to a series of initiatives. The latest is the production of an operational manual to guide teams of entomologists in the Americas in identifying the main taxonomic and ecological characteristics of the insect species that vectors…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new strategy for identifying priority pathogens through the R&D Blueprint Program of the Department of Health Emergencies. The initiative, launched in 2024, highlights research and development (R&D) as a central element in preventing, preparedness for and responding to epidemics and pandemics.
In this context, for each priority pathogen family, a Collaborative Open Research Consortium (CORC) will be set up – a global hub made up of different actors from the multilateral public health ecosystem (experts, research institutions, funders…
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Researchers from Fiocruz Bahia have identified the main predictors of tuberculosis incidence in Brazil by analyzing the disease records from January 2018 to December 2023, and have made projections from 2024 to 2030. The results suggest that, although valuable, current public policies are not enough to reduce the burden of tuberculosis, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) elimination plan.
The study, coordinated by Fiocruz Bahia researcher Bruno Bezerril, was published in The Lancet Regional Health - Americas to assess the possible impact of strategic public health…
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Published in the journal The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, an article by researchers from the Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS/Fiocruz) points out that 1 in 4 women (25.4%) had to leave the municipality to give birth in hospitals belonging to the Unified Health System (SUS), increasing from 23.6% to 27.3% in the period analyzed. Travel distance and time also increased by 31.1% (54.0 km to 70.8 km) and 33.6% (63.1 min to 84.3 min), respectively.
The survey, which mapped more than 6.9 million births between 2010-2011 and 2018-2019, reinforces the existence of…
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In the context of the Year of Brazil in France and France in Brazil, the French ambassador, Emmanuel Lenain, visited Fiocruz on Thursday (2/13) to further consolidate the partnership between the Foundation and the institutions of his country. While this collaboration is already long-standing in the areas of education and research, the idea now is to also advance in production and expand the mobility of researchers. In addition to meeting with president Mario Moreira and members of the Fiocruz Global Health Center (Cris/Fiocruz), Lenain honored Special Advisor to the Presidency Wilson Savino…
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Does receiving Bolsa Família (income transfer program) reduce the risk of death? Yes, at least for specific causes. A study recently published in PLOS Medicine tested the association between access to the Bolsa Família Program (PBF) and mortality risk among patients hospitalized with any psychiatric disorder. The result? The program has not only reduced mortality rates among people hospitalized with mental disorders but could also prevent more deaths.
The research was conducted by the Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (Cidacs/Fiocruz Bahia). To understand the impact of the…
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The Technical-Scientific Monitoring Committee of Initiatives Related to COVID-19 Vaccines, composed of an independent group of experts from Fiocruz and outside the institution, issued a critical stance on Monday (January 13) regarding the article Evaluation of post-COVID mortality in cases classified as severe acute respiratory syndrome in Brazil: a longitudinal study for medium and long term, published in December 2024 by the scientific journal Frontiers in Medicine. The position statement will be sent to the journal's editor, requesting a retraction of the article.
The Committee will…
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The International Symposium on Immunobiologicals (ISI) invites researchers from around the world to register for free and submit their scientific papers and abstracts for the 9th edition of the event, which will take place from May 7 to 9, 2025, at the Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de Janeiro. Registration and submission will be open from January 6 to March 7, 2025.
The International Symposium on Immunobiologicals is a renowned global scientific event organized by the Institute of Technology on Immunobiologicals (Bio-Manguinhos). In its 9th edition this year, the symposium continues to serve as…
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