The memorandum of understanding (MoU) establishes the bases of the international cooperation to be developed between the Foundation and the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, headquartered in Berlin
Fiocruz International News -July 2023
President of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira participated in the launch of the International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN), an initiative that intends to generate a global genomic surveillance platform to detect and respond to threats before they turn into epidemics
The resolution had Fiocruz's stamp from its conception to the presentation in Geneva; it establishes that the Director-General of WHO develop a global action plan by 2026 and recommends actions to the member states
Foundation suggests regional chain of health products at Mercosur committee meeting
Committee gathered representatives from Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Vice President of Production and Innovation in Health at Fiocruz, Marco Krieger defended joint action, in which production did not need to be country by country
Fiocruz-Pasteur-Birmingham international unit will investigate fungal diseases
The unit was approved through a competitive process opened by the French institute in 2021 and, for the next five years, will investigate the mechanisms through which fungi cause damage to the human host
New study shows daily intake of mercury exceeds safe limits in six Amazon states
The research, carried out in the main urban centers of the Amazon, covering six states and 17 municipalities, reveals that fish from all six Amazonian states had contamination levels above the acceptable established by the WHO
Published in the journal The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, the article addresses the construction of housing, water and sanitation patterns, in addition to the socioeconomic status of the Guarani population
Signed by the Vice President of Education, Information and Communication (VPEIC), Cristiani Machado, and by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, José Manuel Salazar- Xirinachs, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) extends the partnership for another five years
Partnership with the University of Washington, along with several other educational and research organizations, will implement the Insight Project, which aims to promote the strengthening of health surveillance in the region
Two years after its start, the project for the Strengthening of the Brazilian Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System already has a network of 25 sentinel hospitals and 10 Central Public Health Laboratories across the country