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WHO Director-General holds official visit to Brazil

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, held his first official visit to Brazil on March 21 and 22, 2018. Dr. Tedros attended several meetings with national authorities in Brasilia and gained a deeper understanding of the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS – Unified Health System). During his visit to PAHO Brazil, Dr. Tedros restated the importance of universal health coverage not only for people to have access to their basic right to health, but also as a means of promoting the development of countries.

Managers’ meeting for South American countries and sub-regions is held at PAHO Brazil

The main goal of the Managers’ meeting is to identify strategies for reinforcing PAHO’s position as the major public health agency and to optimize them on national and sub-regional levels in the Caribbean, Central America and South America. During the South American meeting, which took place on March 12th to 15th at the PAHO Office in Brazil, several topics were covered. Among these are the strategies for the elimination of infectious diseases, the promotion of health and the diffusion and implementation of the Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018-2030.

FELSOCEM members receive technical training in BIREME

Promoting the publication of scientific research results through the development of methodologies to train authors, editors and other actors in scientific communication in Latin America and the Caribbean is one of BIREME’s tasks, as established in its 2018-2019 Biennial Work Plan, under the Information and Knowledge Management initiative. It was with this purpose that medical students and young graduates associated to the Federación Latinoamericana de Sociedades Científicas de Estudiantes de Medicina (FELSOCEM – Latin-American Federation of Scientific Societies of Medical Students) visited BIREME from February 28th to March 2nd.

LILACS is presented at the XIII Jornada APDIS in Portugal

Open Science occupies a prominent place in the health information scenario. The opening of the scientific process has a direct impact on citizens and on society, strengthening new research lines and advances in the field of health. BIREME, in line with the development of digital culture, works on providing information to the network, aligned with the participation of a broad base of potential contributors. The Regional Congress on Health Science Information (CRICS), to be held São Paulo, Brazil on December 4-6th, in its 10th edition, shall be a space for reflection and debate.

CRICS10 will be held in São Paulo, Brazil, on December 4-6, 2018

The 10th edition of the Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information (CRICS10) and the 7th edition of the Virtual Health Library Coordination Meeting (VHL7) will be held in São Paulo on December 4-6, 2018. The main topic of the Conference is “Advancing towards the 2030 Agenda: contributions of evidence and knowledge”, structured in six thematic axes. CRICS is one of the most important and consolidated forums on health scientific and technical information in the Region.

Strengthening information and knowledge management in Paraguay – one of the key PAHO/WHO countries

BIREME has been developing several actions to strengthen information and knowledge management in the Region’s key countries and, thus, contributing to reduce the existing gap between knowledge and practice, and inequities in the access, use and production of scientific and technical knowledge in health. To this end, workers from PAHO/WHO Office in Paraguay – one of the key countries – visited BIREME to prepare a work plan aiming to develop capacities in information and knowledge management in that country.

LILACS joins the Open Access Movement

Published in 2002, the Budapest Open Access Initiative Declaration is an effort to promote open access and free availability of scientific journals on the web, with no financial, legal or technical barriers, provided that the author is duly recognized and cited. BIREME, in line with its mission to democratize access to information, knowledge, and evidence in health, has been working with its collaboration Network and editors of scientific journals indexed in LILACS to join the Open Access Movement.

The Public Health School of University of São Paulo celebrates its centennial

The Public Health School of São Paulo was established in 1918, when the Hygiene Laboratory was created through an agreement signed between the State Government of São Paulo and the Rockefeller Foundation. As of 1969, under the name of Public Health School of University of São Paulo, it started to play a relevant role in disease prevention and epidemic control in the country. To celebrate the centennial of this renowned institution, an International Scientific Seminar was held on February 20-23, in which BIREME has also participated.

Cooperative work with Infomed to update Cuba VHL

The Centro Nacional de Información de Ciencias Médicas (Infomed) and BIREME join efforts to update and relaunch the National Virtual Health Library (VHL) of Cuba. The new VHL Cuba introduces a new approach directed to its target audience – users specialized in Health Sciences. Its new structure brings a method to organize contents according to Infomed priority, intentionality, and function, and customizes and releases contents to different user groups.

BIREME participate at the PAHO/WHO Brazil Expanded Programmatic Coordination Group

The PAHO/WHO Programmatic Coordination Group includes representatives of the programmatic and technical areas of PAHO Brazil. Its primary objective is to promote the exchange of administrative, technical, and strategic information, fostering integration between the areas and joint programs for the development of technical cooperation actions. BIREME, as a Specialized PAHO/WHO Center, works with its network of cooperating institutions in close coordination with PAHO/WHO Representations in each country, and was present in the GPA meeting held in PAHOBrazil in Brasília, in January 2018.