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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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Está disponível para leitura e download a 28ª edição do Radar Saúde Favela, informativo editorado pela Coordenação de Cooperação Social da Fiocruz. A nova edição destaca a temática do direito à vida e maternidade na favela de Acari, Zona Norte do Rio de Janeiro. O número também apresenta debates sobre gestação, psicologia e escuta no cárcere, políticas públicas e a saúde da mulher negra. Acesse a nova edição do Radar Saúde Favela.
Em Debates, seção que tem como objetivo amplificar vozes e demandas de movimentos sociais, organizações e lideranças de favelas e periferias, o texto…
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A technology for the manufacturing of low-cost, open-source 3D bioprinters, developed by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) in collaboration with Veiga de Almeida University (UVA), may soon reach the market. 3D bioprinting allows for creating artificial biological tissues with potential applications in biomedical research, human and animal health, and even in the food industry.
A bio-printer can produce three-dimensional structures similar to biological tissues in the desired shape (photo: Josué Damacena)
The equipment works similarly to a conventional 3D printer. However, while the 3D…
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O Fórum Itaboraí: Política, Ciência e Cultura na Saúde/Fiocruz Petrópolis está avançando com o projeto Multicêntrico, iniciativa que objetiva a aplicação de ferramentas de Tecnologia Social para redução das desigualdades sociais como determinante das iniquidades em saúde em territórios vulneráveis de cinco países da América Latina. Representantes dos institutos nacionais de Saúde Pública da Argentina, El Salvador e México e da Faculdade Latino-Americana de Ciências Sociais (Flacso), no Paraguai, estiveram em Petrópolis para a terceira etapa do projeto, que consistiu na avaliação do uso das…
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A project developed by researchers from the Leônidas and Maria Deane Institute (Fiocruz Amazônia) and the René Rachou Institute (Fiocruz Minas), in collaboration with the Municipal Health Department of Belo Horizonte, shows that the "auto-dissemination" of larvicides by urban mosquitoes can help control diseases transmitted by these same mosquitoes, such as dengue. The project distributed an average of 2,500 "Larvicide Dissemination Stations" (EDLs) across nine neighborhoods in Belo Horizonte over two years. The intervention reduced the incidence of dengue by 29% in these neighborhoods and by…
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We are currently entering a new frontier of knowledge, in which tackling chronic-degenerative diseases, associated with increased life expectancy, has become an undeniable priority. Many current cancer drugs, for example, are subject to failures, relapses and unwanted side effects such as cardiotoxicity and nephrotoxicity. However, with the advent of biological therapies and, more recently, advanced therapies, we are witnessing a real revolution: medicine is becoming increasingly personalized, smaller in scale but highly complex and specialized.
The transformative potential of advanced…
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The Itaboraí Forum: Politics, Science and Culture in Health/Fiocruz Petrópolis is moving forward with the Multicentric project, an initiative that aims to apply Social Technology tools to reduce social inequalities as a determinant of health inequities in five vulnerable Latin American countries. Representatives from the National Public Health Institutes of Argentina, El Salvador and Mexico and from the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Paraguay were in Petrópolis for the third stage of the project, which consisted of assessing the use of tools such as Participatory Rapid…
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O Instituto de Comunicação e Informação em Saúde (Icict/Fiocruz) vai apresentar uma nova plataforma de pesquisa relacionada a temas de saúde mental. Coordenada pelo Laboratório de Informação em Saúde (LIS), a iniciativa agrega e divulga informações sobre o tema, potencializado pelo suporte da Ciência de Dados. A programação conta com a presença de pesquisadora do Departamento de Análise Epidemiológica e Vigilância de Doenças Não Transmissíveis do Ministério da Saúde (Daent/MS). O evento será realizado na quarta-feira (9/10), às 14h30, e terá transmissão online pelo canal da VideoSaúde.…
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Research led by Fiocruz has shown that the recent outbreak of Oropouche fever in the Amazon region, the widest ever recorded, was caused by a new viral strain, called 'OROV BR-2015-2024'. The peer-reviewed article was published in the prestigious international scientific journal Nature Medicine on an accelerated basis to allow early access to the findings. The final edited version of the paper will soon be published in the journal. Previously, as a way of communicating the results of the research to the scientific community, the study was published in a preliminary version on the medRxiv…
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Fiocruz played a key role in the 14th Brazil-Portugal Summit, that took place on Wednesday (02/19) in Brasília. At the high-level meeting, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva discussed with Prime Minister Luís Montenegro bilateral cooperation in various areas, such as health, science and technology, the economy and justice, and celebrated 200 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
President of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira, participated in the thematic health panel, led by the Health ministers of Brazil, Nísia Trindade Lima, and Portugal, Ana Paula Martins (photo: Pamela Lang)…
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The Bolsa Família program (PBF, in the Portuguese acronym), one of the largest conditional income transfer programs worldwide, has been responsible for reducing tuberculosis (TB) cases and deaths by more than half among people living in extreme poverty and indigenous groups. This is what is evidenced by a study coordinated by the Institute of Collective Health (ISC/UFBA), the Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (Cidacs/Fiocruz Bahia) and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The findings, published in Nature Medicine this Friday (1/3), have strong implications…
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A study by the National School of Public Health (Ensp/Fiocruz), carried out in partnership with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health) and the London School of Economics and Political Science, revealed a high rate of self-reported long COVID in the city of Rio de Janeiro, as well as a high prevalence of symptoms associated with the post-COVID syndrome, such as fatigue, joint pain and cognitive impairment. The data also shows that, contradictorily, the syndrome remains invisible in the healthcare services, blending in with other demands that arise, indicating that patients are unable…
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