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Advances in VHL technological platform and its information sources

In the past three years, BIREME/PAHO/WHO has been working to update the Web systems used in the publication of the Virtual Health Library (VHL) portals, as well as those aimed at managing the bibliographic databases that comprise its network of information sources. Such updates aim to improve the processes of production and publication of contents, as well as to facilitate access and use of information and scientific evidence in health at the local, national, and regional levels

BIREME develops scholarly communication courses

Aiming to contribute to encourage publication of research results by professionals, researchers, graduate students and managers in the health area, BIREME has been developing and improving courses on scholarly communication in health. Since 2014, BIREME has trained more than 500 professionals from teaching and research institutions, government bodies, and international agencies.

Ministry of Health creates panel on the dissemination of health information in Brazil

The Ministry of Health, through the General Coordination of Documentation and Information (CGDI) has created – through technical cooperation with BIREME/PAHO/WHO – a panel that hallmarks and informs about the main products, services, events and initiatives to disseminate health information in Brazil. The efforts were carried out by the CGDI and its institutional partners, including the instances of the Virtual Health Library (VHL) at the national and thematic levels.

BIREME at PAHO/WHO Season of Appreciation

Season of Appreciation is part of the PAHO Respectful Workplace policy, promoted by the Office of the Ombudsman, whose mission is to foster a healthy, respectful, inclusive, fair, and collaborative work environment that values diversity.  BIREME included this initiative in the celebration of 2016 results, when the Director and collaborators acknowledged the individual and collective efforts.

WHO supports BIREME’s leadership in the Global Index Medicus

On November 24-25, 2016, in Geneva, in the global meeting of WHO Regional Office Libraries, including PAHO/WHO, BIREME established a new phase of collaboration focused on the Global Index Medicus (GIM): the leadership of the project to strengthen GIM and renew its website, promoting dissemination of scientific and technical output from the low- and mid-income countries. The global actions with WHO will be focused in 2017.

New search interface of the Evidence-Based Health Portal

The Evidence-Based Health Portal (PSBE) is an initiative of the Secretaria de Gestão do Trabalho e da Educação na Saúde of the Brazilian Ministry of Health aimed at incorporating practice based on evidence in the work process of health professionals and scholars. With the objective to strengthening the Portal, BIREME developed an efficient metasearch engine to search and retrieve information registered in databases.

CARPHA EvIDeNCe Portal, a joint project in the Caribbean Region

The Caribbean Public Health Agency – CARPHA, jointly with BIREME/PAHO/WHO, and the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies developed the CARPHA EvIDeNCe Portal in order to make published literature and grey literature readily available and accessible to support decision-making in the Caribbean Region.

BIREME and the PAHO/WHO Policy on Health Research

Research has been considered one of the six basic activities of PAHO/WHO, and its use has been crucial to fulfill the Organization roles, as an essential component to aim at equity and health. BIREME’s actions at PAHO/WHO Health Research Policy are aligned with the Center’s primary mission to contribute with the Region to democratize the access, publication and use of information, knowledge and scientific evidence. Moreover, they are one of the pillars to achieve the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals.

The year 2016 for BIREME

In 2016, BIREME/PAHO/WHO celebrated its 49th anniversary as reference institution in the processes of promoting, strengthening and expanding the flow of scientific and technical information in health in Latin America and the Caribbean, in a close cooperation with over two thousand institutions in the Region. Under the direction of Dr Diego González Machín, since July 2016, the Center has extensively worked with PAHO/WHO headquarters and its technical areas, with PAHO Country Offices and with WHO headquarters and its Regional Offices to fulfill and advance its mission.

Brazil promotes equitable access to health information in the VHL

VHL Brazil, a product from the cooperation among the Ministry of Health, BIREME/PAHO/WHO and Brazilian teaching and research institutions, is the main resource to democratize open access to information in health, assuring representativeness of Brazilian scientific and technical knowledge. However, the future requires advances with new information products and services, with the challenge of translating them into unformal language to facilitate scientific research and search for evidence, policy-making, and social control.