The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) collaborative and open access web space at TGHN aims to strengthen networks and improve capacities for public health research regionally and globally, by providing a vibrant virtual environment where professionals, students and researchers can share experiences, knowledge, method tools and resources.
Fiocruz is the most prominent Institution of Science and Technology in Health in Latin America. Bound to the Ministry of Health, its mission is to produce, disseminate and share knowledge and technologies, aiming at strengthening and consolidating the Unified Health System (SUS, acronym in Portuguese for the Brazilian public health system) and the promotion of health and quality of life for the population.
The 2015 to 2017 outbreak of Zika generated global attention on the risk of a spectrum of neurological disorders posed to women and their unborn children—including, but not limited to ...
Abstract Background Science studies have been a field of research for different knowledge areas, and they have been successfully used to analyse the construction of scientific knowledge, practice and dissemination ...
The emergence of Zika virus in 2015 challenged conventional ideas of mosquito-borne diseases, tested the resilience of health systems and embedded itself within local sociocultural worlds, with major implications for ...
The global spread of the 2019-nCoV is continuing and is fast moving, as indicated by the WHO raising the risk assessment to high. In this article, we provide a preliminary ...
In an interview to the Fiocruz News Agency (AFN), Nísia Trindade Lima comments on the context of the Covid-19 pandemics and the challenges of its arrival in Brazil. The Fiocruz president also lists some of the actions taken by the ... Read more
The Foundation started the construction, in Rio de Janeiro, of the Hospital Center for the Covid-19 Pandemic - National Institute of Infectious Diseases, which will assist the state and municipal governments in fighting the disease. The rapid assembly hospital unit ... Read more
Starting this week, Brazil will gain a weight boost in the national response to a possible introduction of the 2019-nCoV in the country. Together with PAHO/WHO, specialists from the Laboratory of Respiratory And Measles Virus of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, ... Read more
On this occasion, Dr. Ventura, talked about the crucial role of health systems to respond to emergencies and the inequalities inherent to emergency declarations issued by the International Health Regulations (IHR, 2005) system. Read more
With the launch of the new Comandante Ferraz Antarctica Station on January 15, Fiocruz now relies on a permanent laboratory in the continent. Fiolab will be a biosafety laboratory prepared to respond to Brazil’s needs regarding epidemiological and public health ... Read more
Follow the Fiocruz response and Brazilian actions and numbers regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.
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