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BIREME coordinates the virtual workshop ACURIL 2019

Within the context of the technical cooperation of BIREME/PAHO/WHO in Latin America and the Caribbean in technical and scientific health information management, BIREME coordinated the virtual workshop and pre-conference “New Cataloguing Data Entry Competencies for VHL in the Caribbean” during the 49th Conference of the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL), which took place in Aruba, from June 2 to 9, 2019, with the central theme “Access and opportunity for all: Caribbean Libraries, Archives and Museums Supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals”.

Strengthening National Capacities in Health Information

The Latin American and Caribbean Center for Health Sciences Information (BIREME/PAHO/WHO), in its mission to contribute to strengthen health in the countries of the Region through the democratization of access, publication and use of scientific information, management and evidence, develops and releases to countries and institutions products and services that aim to strengthen capacities in health information and disseminate networking methodologies. In the month of June, activities were held in Argentina and Paraguay, during which local coordinators of the VHL Network and PAHO/WHO focal points, without the presence of BIREME representatives, developed training actions on the tools developed by the Center, giving them relevance and visibility.

Colombia VHL launches its first Knowledge Showcase on mental health and migration

BIREME has developed the Knowledge Showcase methodology with the purpose of supporting countries of the Region in the development of content that promotes visibility and access to digital resources of relevant and trustable information selected by experts and focused on priority health topics. Applying the concept and the available model, Colombia VHL launched a Knowledge Showcase on the topic of Mental Health and Migration, with the objective of contributing to decision-making based on evidence, to the strengthening of cooperative work and to the support of technical cooperation in health.

BIREME, aiming at being a high-performance team

The collaborators of the Latin American and Caribbean Center for Health Sciences Information (BIREME/PAHO/WHO) held the third meeting for their strengthening as a high-performance team. The program, coordinated by an outsourced consultant, considered conceptual discussions and activities that contributed to the development of competencies in favor of an organizational environment and atmosphere that are favorable for individual and collective learning.

Directors of CDE/PAHO and PANAFTOSA visit BIREME

Dr. Marcos Espinal, Director of the PAHO/WHO Department of Communicable Diseases and Dr. Ottorino Cosivi, Director of the Pan American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Center, in an official visit to Brazil, visited the Instituto Butantan and BIREME in São Paulo. The visit is part of the official mission of Dr. Espinal in Brazil, which also included the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Brasília.

Local capacities in 18 countries increase providing visibility to scientific output in health

One of the pillars of the network developed by BIREME is the development of local capacities in such a way that each of the cooperating institutions have autonomy for the adequacy and application of the methodologies offered by BIREME in their countries and area. In the 33 years of LILACS, its methodology is adopted by institutions that implant dozens of virtual libraries and national and/or thematic databases in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, in Spain and in some African Portuguese-speaking countries.

The International Nursing VHL supports PAHO/WHO ‘Nursing Now’ Campaign

The Nursing Now campaign was launched by the Federal Nursing Council, in collaboration with the WHO Collaborating Center for the Development of Research in Nursing, linked to the University of São Paulo Nursing School at Ribeirão Preto. The theme “Where there is life, there is nursing” has as a main objective to present professionals in the field as the true protagonists in health. BIREME contributes with the theme through support in the construction, updating, maintenance and dissemination of the Nursing VHL and the Nursing Database (BDENF), developed collectively by institutions from over seven countries for selecting, organizing and disseminating high quality scientific and technical information in nursing sciences.

Strengthening the VHL Network in Fiocruz is a priority action to BIREME

Within the framework of the actions for strengthening the Virtual Health Library Network (VHL Network) in Brazil, BIREME promoted a meeting at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), with the purpose of making an analysis of the situation of the VHL instances that are coordinated by that institution and defining a plan for strengthening the network, in coordination with the National Plan of the Brazil VHL.

The Primary Health Care strategy is strengthened by promoting the VHL at local level

BIREME contributes to promote scientific and technical knowledge in local contexts and in Primary Health Care (PHC), in consonance with the resolutions approved in the 72nd World Health Assembly. The Center also participated in the IV International Congress on Primary Health Care (CIAPS), which had as a central theme the Sustainable Development Objectives (SDO) from the 2030 Agenda, as well as how to reduce the gap between knowledge and practice.

BIREME joins the WHO campaign “Walk the Talk: The Health for All Challenge 2019”

The World Health Organization organized the event “Walk the Talk: The Health for All Challenge” on May 19th in Geneva, Switzerland, coinciding with the eve of the inauguration of the 72nd World Health Assembly in the same city, inspired by the great success attained in the first edition of the event in 2018. Delegations from countries in the Americas and from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) participated actively in all activities, which had the participation of Dr. Carissa Etienne, PAHO/WHO Director. BIREME, as a PAHO/WHO Specialized Center, supports this and other actions in favor of health, encouraging its collaborators to practice physical activities and to adopt healthy lifestyles.