The Memorandum of Understanding, signed on February, establishes foundations for setting up Brazil-China Centers for Research and Prevention of Infectious Diseases. According to the agreement, the centres will address basic and translational research applied to health, focusing on the prevention and control of epidemics such as influenza viruses, chikungunya, zika, dengue, yellow fever and oropouche fever, among others.
Open and free, the course is available on the platform of the Virtual Campus for Public Health of the Pan American Health Organization (Paho). Registration is open until May 31.
Interview with epidemiologist and infectologist Rivaldo Venâncio, researcher and coordinator of Health Surveillance and Reference Laboratories of Fiocruz. According to him, "public authorities must learn to dialogue with a new reality, where information is quickly spread through small audios, texts or videos."
