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Oswaldo Cruz Institute (Fiocruz)

The Oswaldo Cruz Institute was founded in 1908 as an institute principally devoted to vaccines and became the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in 1970. Its missions are to promote health and social development, to forge and disseminate scientific and technological knowledge, and to be an agent of citizenship. Attached to the Brazilian Ministry of Health, and Fiocruz is one of the most prominent science and technology health institutions in Latin America.

 Fiocruz

Today the institution is responsible for a range of activities including research development; highly-regarded hospital and ambulatory care services; production of vaccines, drugs, reagents, and diagnostic kits; education and training of human resources; information and communication in the area of health, science and technology; quality control of products and services, and the implementation of social programs.

Research

- clinical research                                                                          - health surveillance
- development of phophylactic therapeutic vaccines              - history, health and science
- diagnostic method development                                             - immunity and inflammation
- drug and medication development                                          - infectious agent vector biology
- education and health                                                                  - health promotion
- environment, ecology and health                                             - parasitology
- epidemiology                                                                               - microbiology
- experimental model of disease
- management of science and technology in health
- molecular and genetic epidemiology in health
 

Public health

- WHO reference laboratories for diagnosis and molecular typing of human retroviruses, control and prevention of schistosomiasis, typing of Leishmania, measles and other exanthematous viral infections, influenza virus, polio and other enteroviruses
- health consultations and assessments
- information and communication in health
- public policy, planning, and health management

 

Training

 

Fiocruz is today the largest non-university institution training human resources in health in Brazil. Fiocruz’s master’s and doctorate programs have a formal relationship with the rest of the Brazilian postgraduate system as well as with foreign institutions.

- vocational courses
- lato sensu (postgraduate diploma courses such as specializations etc.)
- stricto sensu (master’s and doctorate degrees) postgraduate programs
- The School of Governance in Health is the strategic side of Fiocruz’s education, research and technical cooperation programs, dedicated to training future staff members and producing knowledge to increase the governance capacity of Brazil’s health system.