The Rede de Alimentação e Nutrição do Sistema Único de Saúde (RedeNutri), established in 2009, is a virtual place that allows users to reflect upon and evaluate the results of the implementation of the Política Nacional de Alimentação e Nutrição [National Food and Nutrition Policy] (PNAN) of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. The Online Collaborative Space establishes itself as a community of good practices in eating and nutrition habits at the Unified Health System in Brazil (SUS), gathering professionals from several areas, researchers and other stakeholders.
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PAHO/WHO Brazil and BIREME participate at a sub-regional initiative on human resources in health
The Technical Unit of Human Resources in Health at PAHO/WHO Brazil, together with BIREME, continues to develop a project aiming to identify and analyze scientific and technical information published on the main international and regional indexes on human resources in health. The results of this project will support the formulation of a regional strategy on knowledge management for the area of human resources in health.
A new theme in the VHL: natural medicine and complementary therapies
An initiative aligned to the WHO Strategy on Traditional Medicine (2014- 2023), has as main goal promoting visibility, access to, use and generation of scientific and education content and health data, in order to contribute to the promotion and development of Natural Medicine and Complementary Therapies in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is a technical cooperation agreement with PAHO/WHO Nicaragua and the Instituto de Medicina Natural y Terapias Complementarias de Nicaragua, with great potential of expanding to other countries of the region.
Actions on scientific communication in health for the region
BIREME, as a specialized Center of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization(PAHO/WHO) and the Knowledge Management Project of the area of Knowledge Management, Bioethics and Research department (KBR/PAHO), under the management of PAHO/WHO Assistant Director, work in close collaboration on themes of scientific communication in health, strengthening the health publications from the Region, and promoting capacities to improve the quality and quantity of scientific reports, besides making them widely available to healthcare professionals, researchers, students, and decision makers.
National Networks promote the democratization of health information
VHL is the technical cooperation model for information management coordinated by BIREME/PAHO/WHO, developed with the participation and collaboration of the networks, organizations and individuals of Latin American and Caribbean countries, and applied by other nations. In the countries, the VHL projects itself through national, thematic, and institutional fora with the purpose of enhancing visibility and promoting the use of scientific and technical knowledge, according to health priorities and information needs of users. In this context, RENICS – Red Nacional de Información en Ciências de la Salud de Argentina, turns 30 years old coordinated by the National Academy of Medicine with the support of the area of Knowledge Management of the country’s PAHO/WHO Representation.
ProEthos – support on strengthening research ethics committees
The goal of the ProEthos platform, coordinated by the Knowledge Management, Bioethics and Research (KBR) team of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) with the support of BIREME on its technological development, is to systematize ethical review of human research, thus strengthening the ethics committees in Latin American and Caribbean countries. Its main objective, however, is to improve the quality of ethical reviews and to disseminate the culture of their use on research studies with human participants.
Approaching scientific knowledge and health practice
The Third International Conference on Primary Health Care brought together managers and employees of the Brazilian Unified Health System in Teresina, Piauí, Brazil, in order to discuss topics related to the gap between health knowledge and practice. The event was an opportunity for BIREME to discuss information management within the context of Agenda 2030. Poverty eradication, the greatest challenge facing the world today was also debated, as a key requirement for sustainable development.
VHL Mozambique: BIREME organizes a training workshop to reactivate VHL Mozambique in Maputo
On March 27-31, 2017, the National Institute of Health/Ministry of Health of Mozambique and the WHO Representation promoted training activities, which were coordinated by BIREME/PAHO/WHO and aimed to reactivate the VHL Mozambique. A total of 16 people were trained in management of contextualized information. The participants came from the main regions in the country, including coordinators, documentalists and IT staff representing seven institutions, such as public and private universities, Higher and Technical Institutes of Health Sciences, the National Institute of Health and the WHO Representation.
BIREME coordinates training workshops on health information in Mexico
Courses on scientific communication and access to health information were held at PAHO/WHO head offices in Mexico, on April 3 to 7, 2017. They were coordinated by BIREME and PAHO/WHO Mexico, and attended by 58 professionals from 14 federative organizations related to health promotion and prevention, including the Centro Nacional de Excelencia Tecnológica en Salud (CENETEC), Centro de Documentación Institucional and the Dirección General de Promoción de la Salud del Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP).
Online courses for the surveillance, control and elimination of neglected diseases
Since 2012, BIREME and PAHO’s Department of Communicable Diseases and Health Analysis (CHA/PAHO/WHO) have been developing projects to build courses focusing on the prevention, control and eradication of communicable diseases and zoonoses. These courses are self-teaching with free access and published on the Moodle platform of the Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH). There are already 11 projects for courses on Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Visceral Leishmaniasis, Geohelminthiasis, Rabies, Trachoma, and Schistosomiasis, focusing on diagnosis, prevention, control and treatment of these diseases.