Fiocruz and CNRS hold symposium on health cooperation agenda

The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and the National Center for Scientific Research of France (CNRS) promote, from 16 to 18 October, the Symposium "A Health Cooperation Agenda". The event, open to the public, marks the signing of the memorandum of technical, scientific and technological cooperation between the two institutions. The Symposium, to be held at the International Salon of the National School of Public Health (Ensp / Fiocruz), aims to strengthen the partnership between the two institutions and create opportunities for scientific collaboration between researchers through debate on social science topics and agendas. The event is part of Fiocruz's 120th anniversary celebration and the 80th anniversary of CNRS.

The Symposium will bring together researchers from Fiocruz and CNRS and will be divided into four themes: environmental health, human health and biodiversity; global health issues, migration and global epidemics; access to healthcare and health systems, public policies and care of vulnerable populations; shared experiences on health databases, care pathways and bioethics. At the end of the Symposium, based on the contributions of the speakers, a joint publication will be prepared.

The opening table and firming of Cooperation Term will be held at a closed session at Fiocruz´s Residência Oficial and it will have the presence of the president of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima, and the Director of CNRS South America Bureau in Rio de Janeiro, Olga Anokhina. The opening speaker will be pediatrician, sanitarist and general coordinator of the Fiocruz Global Health Center (Cris / Fiocruz), Paulo Buss.

Other speakers include the University of Paris professor Claude-Oliver Doron, CNRS researcher specialized in health geography and in social and spatial inequalities, Anne Cécile Hoyez, CNRS researcher specialized in public policy for human health and health systems, Monika Steffen, and coordinator of the Center for Integrating Health Knowledge and Data (Cidacs / Fiocruz), Maurício Barreto.

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