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All courses are free and some are available in languages including English, Español, Português

Scientific Publication (videos)

Duration: 3-4 hours (8 videos) | Cost: Free

Objective: These videos aim to present a set of guidelines that can assist the process of preparation and publishing scientific articles.

Public: These videos are intended for health professionals and people interested in scientific publications.

Languages: English | Español

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Tools for addressing public health emergencies in the context of civil society

Duration: 30 hours (9 modules) | Cost: Free

Objective: This course presents how global governance operates, ways of civil society action and tools to help social movements to act as mediators and producers of knowledge through the strengthening of popular surveillance and digital activism.

Public: It is intended for representatives of, and those involved with, social movements of vulnerable populations in Latin America. It may be extended to the public of other countries and people interested in the subject.

Languages: English | Español | Português

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What is open Science?

Duration: 10 hours (8 lessons) | Cost: Free

Objective: This course will present the concept of open science, as well as the reasons and advantages of practicing open science.

Public: This course was developed especially for postgraduate students and researchers, however, it is open to anyone interested in the subject of Open Science.

Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish

Open at TGHN Training Centre

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Open Access

Duration: 10 hours (5 classes) | Cost: Free

Objective:

Present some of the history of Open Access and its implications for science communication.
Help you understand a little more about the main concepts, historic milestones, different forms of applications, and various initiatives both on the international scene and Brazilian experiences of Open Access.
Present the practical modalities of peer review and introduce the concept of immediate publication or preprints as an alternative to accelerate the dissemination of scientific research.

Public: This course is for researchers and postgraduate students interested in scientific research.

Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish

Open at TGHN Training Centre

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Tools for Scientific Dissemination

Duration: 15 hours (11 modules) | Cost: Free

Objective: This course is intended to help the reader plan and execute scientific advertising activities in different formats and by targeting different audiences. It is aimed at researchers and post-graduate students interested in scientific advertising.

Public: This course is for researchers and post-graduate students interested in scientific advertising.

Languages: English | Español | Português

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Fiocruz Virtual Campus

The Fiocruz Virtual Campus is a network of knowledge and learning focused on health education. In this virtual environment, people and partner institutions share platforms, services and activities. On the basis of intensive use of information, communication and education technologies, it is possible to access courses and educational resources.

Fiocruz offers a broad spectrum of training, ranging from technical courses for High School to post-graduate programmes in several areas, such as doctoral and masters programmes, distance learning, short courses, residency programs, basic and professional education. In addition, Fiocruz offers Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) and professional qualification through the Virtual Fiocruz Campus, a platform that integrates different environments, technologies and open educational resources. The platform also provides virtual communities (practice and learning) and learning environments (Moodle). It currently offers about 1,000 courses, 500 of which are short courses (face-to-face and e-learning), with a total of 35,000 enrolled students (16,000 in the e-learning modality).

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PAHO's Virtual Campus

The Fiocruz virtual Campus works in pártnership with the Pan American Organization (PAHO/WHO) Virtual Campus in Public Health and coordinates the Brazilian site in the platform.

Fiocruz also offers several courses in English, Spanish and Portuguese through its regional platform.

Check out the self-learning courses with open registrations!

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COVID-19: Management of Infection Caused by the Novel Coronavirus

Duration: 15 hours (2 modules) | Cost: Free

Objective: The course is introductory in nature: it provides training for professionals working in health services for the clinical management of the disease

Public: The first module is introductory to serve both health professionals and the general population. The second module is aimed at health professionals, focusing on the work of primary health care units.

Languages: English | Español | Português

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Transmission, surveillance, control and prevention of yellow fever

Objective: The course presents general concepts of yellow fever, aimed at health professionals who work in primary healthcare

Public: The course is aimed at doctors, nurses and nursing technicians who work in primary healthcare.

Languages: English | Português

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Speech therapy healthcare: oral sensory-motor disorders in the field of neonatology

Duration: 40 hours (8 modules) | Cost: Free

Objective:

Update and promote a broader view on the topic, so as to act early, in a preventive way, in carrying out diagnostic and therapeutic procedures through structural and functional evaluation of the dynamics of feeding, both naturally (on the mother’s breast) and alternatively (by cup, bottle) in newborns and infants with alterations in the oral sensorimotor development.
Contribute to participation in a multi-disciplinary team, building and outlining therapeutic approaches and expanding the understanding of concepts about breastfeeding and dysphagia, leading to a better quality of care provided.
Encourage the decision-making process that assists the monitoring of babies with dysphagia, referred to the post-discharge outpatient clinic to avoid and/or minimize sequelae.

Public: This course is for speech therapists and health workers but is open to anyone interested in the topic of dysphagia.

Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish

Open at TGHN Training Centre

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