Fiocruz International News - September 2023 - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz): Ciência e tecnologia em saúde para a população brasileira

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

September / 2023

PAHO signs two cooperation agreements and pay homage to Fiocruz

The director of the Pan American Health Organization, Jarbas Barbosa, was at the Foundation to sign an agreement to support studies for the development of the mRNA vaccine and another for technical cooperation in Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Fiocruz and Chinese institutions form working group to create center for infectious diseases

A group of researchers met with colleagues from the Foundation to advance cooperation in science and technology in health. The center is foreseen in the Memorandum of Understanding signed in April, in Beijing

Scientists decode the complete genome of two vectors of leishmaniasis

An international consortium of scientists, including from Fiocruz, decoded the complete genome of two species of sandflies. The insects had their DNA sequenced for the first time, with the characterization of genes associated with important behaviors in disease transmission

Fiocruz launches Master's Degree in Collective Health for indigenous people

The Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute launched the course in Collective Health aimed exclusively at training indigenous professionals, teachers and researchers from Alto Solimões, as a way to reduce inequality in the most remote regions of Brazil

Public Health Institutes creates an action plan to promote health equity in Latin America

That was the result of the work carried out during the Seminar of the International Association of National Institutes of Public Health (IANPHI) Latin American Network, which took place at the Itaboraí Palace (Itaboraí Forum-Fiocruz Petrópolis)

Fiocruz becomes a reference in Oropouche virus detection protocol

Developed at the Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute, the real-time PCR diagnostic protocol for detecting Oropouche virus will be used by eight Brazilian public laboratories and, in the future, in other American countries

Fiocruz launches platform for innovative technologies

New Innovation Portfolio brings together technologies with high innovative potential for the development of products and services aimed at meeting the health needs of the population

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine seeks to inspire young researchers

William Kaelin Jr. spoke at Bio-Manguinhos Auditorium about his work and his "unlikely journey to Stockholm". He also answered questions from researchers

Foundation and partner institutions develop molecular test for hepatitis Delta

This type of diagnosis is not part of the routine of reference laboratories in Brazil, which makes it difficult to know the real prevalence of the disease

Researchers advocate expansion of arbovirus genomic monitoring

Scientists from 54 countries came together to defend the need to implement a global genomic surveillance for high-impact endemic arboviruses

At a UN event on the 2030 Agenda, Fiocruz presents its actions during the pandemic

Fiocruz co-organized and participated in two parallel events on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda at the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, in New York

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