Research and teaching

The Foundation runs more than a thousand researchs and technological development projects, which produce knowledge for the control of diseases such as AIDS, malaria, Chagas' disease, tuberculosis, hanseniasis, measles, rubella, schistosomiasis, meningitis and hepatitis, and other topics related to public health , including violence and climate change, and the history of science.

Fiocruz is the main institution non-university on training and qualification of human resources for the Unified Health System (SUS) and for science and technology in Brazil. It has 18 programs for post-graduate studies in several areas, a technical school and several programs in the broad sense.