In a virtual session held on July 7, 2020, BIREME presented the main results achieved under the 6th Amendment to the Cooperation Term 95 (TA6/TC95), signed between the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization for through its Representation in Brazil (PAHO/WHO Brazil) and the Executive Secretariat of the Ministry of Health of Brazil.
Continuing the series Strengthening Health Information Networks, the second webinar of the Virtual Health Library Network (VHL Network) and BiblioSUS Network was held on July 29, with the theme “The importance of bibliographic control in the health area: expanding visibility and access”, which was presented by three experienced information science professionals directly involved in the management of the VHL databases.
On July 28, in a virtual session for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Window of Knowledge Nursing-Covid-19 was launched. The innovative format platform gathers scientific articles, technical documents, online courses, self-learning material, multimedia content such as videos and podcasts, webinars, blogs and other information sources for health professionals, especially in the field of nursing, researchers, technicians, students of health courses and the general public about nursing care to patient with Covid-19, in addition to enabling interaction between professionals and researchers.
The Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicines Americas Network (TCIM Americas) and the Brazilian Academic Consortium for Integrative Health (CABSIn in its Portuguese acronym), in coordination with BIREME, have been developing different products that seek to show the contribution of the TCIM to the Covid-19 pandemic. One of these products is the Evidence Map, in which the identification, analysis and characterization of clinical studies on interventions based on TCIM to improve the immune response, mental health in conditions of work stress and social isolation, and clinical management of COVID-19.
Open science can be defined as a comprehensive concept that encompasses several movements that seek to open up the entire research cycle and was motivated by the need to share resources between disciplines and increase transparency in all its stages. In order to disseminate the fundamentals of open science and encourage the adoption of its practices by journal editors in Brazil and Latin America, BIREME’s Scientific Communication Coordinator recently participated in two virtual events in the area.
With the theme “The importance of working within networks in the health area”, on June 4th took place the first of a series of six webinars for the Networks that make up the Brazil VHL Network. The initiative is part of the cooperation established between BIREME and the Ministry of Health, through CGDI/SAA/SE/MS, and aims to strengthen the Brazil VHL Network and, particularly, the BiblioSUS Network.
The Self-Learning Course on Scholarly Communication in Health Sciences hosted at the PAHO/WHO Virtual Campus for Public Health was launched in November 2019 with the aim of promoting the publication of research results in Latin American and Caribbean countries. The course attracted great interest; since its launch, more than 9,000 people have signed up and more than 4,000 completed the training, mainly young nursing professionals and physicians.
LILACS is a database coordinated by BIREME that aims at increasing the visibility and democratize access to scientific output of Latin America and Caribbean countries and to fill the information and knowledge gap necessary to respond to local health demands. The process of evaluating journals for indexing follows international principles and standards, being periodically updated methodologically and technologically to meet the evolution of scientific communication worldwide. Find out the latest innovations incorporated into the LILACS database.
The technical cooperation project established between BIREME and the National Council of Health Secretaries for the development of actions related to information and knowledge management in the public health area, was implemented in a period of 12 months, surpassing the expected results and contributing to increase the visibility, access and use of CONASS technical, scientific and dissemination publications in the context of the Virtual Health Library.
BIREME and the General Coordination of Disease Elimination Surveillance of the Department of Diseases in Chronic Conditions and Sexually Transmitted Infections of the Health Surveillance Secretariat of the Ministry of Health of Brazil (CGDE/DCCI/SVS/MS) signed a technical cooperation project to strengthen the Leprosy VHL within the scope of the TC71 Cooperation Term – Malaria, Leprosy and other Diseases in Elimination, which aims at restructuring the technological platform, expand its collaboration network by promoting the use of the best information to support health and decision-making, besides promoting the regular functioning of the VHL and its information sources.