Within the framework of the Plan for strengthening the Virtual Health Library on Public Health of Paraguay (VHL), with the presence of Sueli Suga, BIREME Supervisor for Referential Sources, and with the objective of diffusing/giving visibility and access to the scientific and technical production of the country through LILACS and the VHL, a series of strategic meetings were held on October 1-3, along with the indexation course for librarians and editors, according to the LILACS Methodology.
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Evidence Maps on the clinical application of Integrative and Complementary Health Practices
As a contribution to facilitate the access to available evidence, as well as to identify knowledge gaps, BIREME, in collaboration with the Brazilian Academic Consortium on Integrative Health, held the first workshop on evidence maps on Integrative and Traditional Health Practices (Práticas Integrativas e Complementares em Saúde, PICS), on October 14 in São Paulo, Brazil. The workshop was financed by the Brazilian Ministry of Health and was attended by 39 participants from nine states of the different regions of the country.
BIREME supports the reactivation and strengthening of the VHL Hansen’s disease
The Instituto Lauro de Souza Lima, coordinating institution for the VHL Hansen’s disease, gathered its Consulting Committee for the 10° Simpósio Brasileiro de Hansenologia in Recife – PE, Brazil, with the objective of strengthening the thematic VHL and defining cooperation strategies for its reactivation, supported by BIREME.
The Nursing VHL Network holds its XIII International Meeting in Panamá City
With the objective of strengthening the International Nursing Virtual Health Library (VHL) and of outlining cooperation strategies for creating and strengthening its sources of information in Latin America, the XIII International Meeting of the Nursing VHL Network was held on September 24, in Panama City, Panama. BIREME’s participation was noteworthy and was focused on the contribution to the LILACS database and the strengthening of the Nursing VHL Brazil.
Nicaragua works on strengthening the health information component
Since Nicaragua is one of the PAHO/WHO key countries, it also constitutes a priority for BIREME, and in this occasion the country received a visit from the Director of the specialized Center on Health Sciences Information, Dr. Diego González, who held strategic meetings with national counterparts related to the scientific and technical information component, as well as with the technical team of the PAHO/WHO office in the country. The reactivation of the Virtual Health Library and the adoption of tools for strengthening information systems and scientific communication were the objectives of the work undertaken.
Strengthening capacities in health scholarly communication in Paraguay
With the objective of offering scientific editors, researchers, health professionals and post-graduate students the most important elements to keep in mind while writing scientific articles, PAHO Paraguay, through its Knowledge Management team, in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Salud of the Ministry of Health and BIREME/PAHO/WHO, organized a Workshop on Scholarly communication in Health. Dr. Lilian Calò, BIREME Scholarly Communication Coordinator, oversaw the activity, which took place on September 17-19.
Administration and its effective support for the technical cooperation of BIREME/PAHO/WHO
Collaborators from the Administration and Planning Management (GA) of BIREME participated at the Regional Training on Operational Excellence in Procurement, in September 2019, which contributed to the development of collective and individual competences, thus collaborating with the efficiency of the management and administration activities, as well as with the Center’s operations for the effective implementation of its technical cooperation program in the Region.
Representatives from ULAN, Medical School of Angola, visit BIREME
A delegation from the Medical School of the Universidade Lueji A’Nkonde, from Malanje, Angola (ULAN), visited BIREME on September 6th, in order to identify joint actions to strengthen the School’s scientific and technical information management, as well as that of North Luanda and Angola. Visitors were presented to the lines of work of the Center and discussed ways of supporting ULAN to strengthen its capacities in health information and scientific communication.
BIREME joins the Wellness Week celebration
Since its creation by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in 2011, Wellness Week has served as a call for action to fight non-transmissible diseases and promote health through the generation of healthy environments. BIREME is known for stimulating the practice of healthy lifestyle habits among its collaborators yearlong, and during Wellness Week 2019, activities were organized to celebrate the campaign and contribute to the health and well-being of collaborators and their families.
The Brazilian Ministry of Health, PWR Brazil, and BIREME discuss results of technical cooperation
Representatives of the Executive Secretariat of the Ministry of Health of Brazil met at BIREME in order to review the results and discuss the specific objectives of the next 12 months, within the context of Addendum VI of the 95th Technical Cooperation Term (TA6/TC95) between the Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization in Brazil (PAHO/WHO Brazil) for the “Improvement of the Management of the Executive Secretariat of the Ministry of Health of Brazil”. The macro activities to be developed during the term of this TC were also defined.