With transversal and integrated action with the other BIREME teams, the Innovation Lab is constituted to facilitate the Center’s positioning at the forefront of digital transformation in the area of health information; LILACS is already accelerating.
Unit in Brasilia aims to promote and strengthen the partnerships and special projects of the Center, improving the engagement, presence and visibility of technical cooperation in the Region.
In recent visit to Brazil, Dr. Sebastián Garcia Saisó, director of EIH/OPS, met with the BIREME team, representatives of the Ministry of Health and the University of São Paulo, to discuss innovation projects that promote access to technologies and the reduction of health inequities.
The sessions on Best Practices in the Editorial Processes of Scientific Journals for LILACS, in its 5th consecutive year, promote knowledge of key themes of the editorial process to improve the quality, positioning and visibility of journals in health sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean indexed in LILACS. The first webinar of the series, held on April 19, addressed the theme ‘How scientific journals contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals’.
World Health Day, celebrated each year on April 7, marks the founding anniversary of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948 and each year focuses on a specific public health concern. In addition to focusing on ways to achieve Health for All, which is this year’s theme, WHO celebrated its 75th anniversary under the theme “75 years improving Public Health”. Join the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the WHO on this journey to achieve Health for All.
Under the call to action “Get Up-to-Date #EachVaccineCounts,” the 2023 Vaccination Week in the Americas promoted revitalization of national immunization programs and regional goals for disease control and elimination, fostering confidence in vaccines at all ages, and reinforcements to maintain polio elimination in the Region.
On March 3, 2023, the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME/PAHO/WHO) completes 56 years of uninterrupted activity and highlights its main results in the last 12 months. By proposing a debate that will lead to the development of a 2023-2025 Cooperation Strategy, BIREME strengthens and repositions itself as a Center of Evidence for Action in Health.
Twenty-five years ago, in 1998, the Latin American and Caribbean Health Information Network approved the Declaration of San José “Towards the Virtual Health Library”. Since then, BIREME has been leading the development of the VHL model as a PAHO/WHO technical cooperation strategy in health information and knowledge management for Latin America and the Caribbean and other regions.
The most recent edition of the Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS) has just been made available for online consultation at the DeCS/MeSH portal. Its update has been done annually, as for more than 35 years, and reflects the annual update of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) of the National Library of Medicine and involves processes of inserting new descriptors and removing or repositioning others. Discover the novelties of the 2023 edition of DeCS.
PAHO/WHO, through its Country Offices and Centers, including BIREME, works in the countries of the Region through technical cooperation programs and projects. The terms of cooperation (TC) are among the instruments most used by the Organization to consolidate this practice. BIREME/PAHO/WHO continues to develop and improve products and services to facilitate access and use of scientific and technical evidence in health in LA&C countries.