Bimonthly newsletter of the Fiocruz Global Health Center (Cris/Fiocruz)

NOVEMBER / 2023
Fiocruz has a prominent participation in the
World Health Summit in Berlin

Climate change, pandemic preparedness and universal access to medical care

were some of the topics addressed at the event, in which the Foundation
played an active role in panels, workshops and bilateral meetings

Foundation begins pandemic intelligence work

in partnership with WHO

The World Health Organization Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence is
based in the German capital. According to president Mario Moreira, Fiocruz
can contribute to the development of surveillance tools and the preparation of
information systems in countries that lack consistent databases
Mozambican Minister of Health visits Fiocruz
to expand and define areas of cooperation

Minister Armindo Daniel Tiago spoke with president Mario Moreira and
representatives of at least ten units of the Foundation to define priorities.
Three main axes began to emerge: research, training and technical assistance

Foundation celebrates eight decades of the

Human Milk Bank
The Brazilian experience, led by IFF/Fiocruz, has
become a world reference model and is the basis
for the creation of similar programs in countries in
Latin America, the Caribbean, the Iberian
Peninsula, Africa and also in the Brics

Colorectal cancer mortality in Latin America

grows 20.5% in thirty years
The study of Ensp/Fiocruz, National Cancer
Institute (Inca) and University of California San
Diego showed an increase from 1990 to 2019, in
the opposite direction of the global trend

Fiocruz, Fundhacre and Mérieux sign a

tripartite cooperation protocol
The document establishes collaboration in the area
of research, training and qualification of SUS
professionals, in addition to reinforcing diagnosis
and the epidemiological and molecular surveillance
 Climate, Environmental and Health Data Platform is launched
This is a megastructure for studies on the interaction between health and
climate, considering the Brazilian continental territory and the vast diversity of
climate and ecosystems, with socioeconomic, geographic

With the participation of Fiocruz, Brazil and Angola strengthen cooperation

ties in health
The vice‐president of Education, Information and Communication
(Vpeic/Fiocruz), Cristiani Machado, was in Luanda and participated in
activities aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation in ​health

Study shows an increase in suicide among young indigenous people in the

Amazonas and Mato Grosso do Sul
Researchers from Fiocruz and Harvard University carried out the first national
study assessing suicide among indigenous and non‐indigenous people in Brazil

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