The directors of ISGlobal and the IOC, Antoni Plasència and Tania Araujo Jorge, during the signing of the document. Photo: Gutemberg Brito
The Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) and the Instituto de Salud Global (ISGlobal), from Spain, signed last Wednesday, February 15, the Work Plan that strengthens partnerships between the two institutions.
Entitled “International cooperation between IOC and ISGlobal: innovation in global health to face infectious and neglected diseases”, the document establishes goals and expectations for the next two years in the areas of research, training of human resources and contribution to public policies.
“The Work Plan formalizes partnerships that have existed for a long time between the institutions and expands the possibility for laboratories and researchers to work on themes of common interest”, highlighted the director of the IOC, Tania Araujo-Jorge.
“Health understands no borders. Scientific cooperation is a fundamental element in protecting citizens, communities, society and the planet. We are doing this collaboratively to try to better understand some of the health problems that affect humanity and, together, produce knowledge and new solutions”, guaranteed ISGlobal director Antoni Plasència.
Accompanying the agreement, held at Castelo Mourisco da Fiocruz (RJ), the Consul General of Spain in Rio de Janeiro, Ángel Vázquez, stressed the relevance of the partnership.
"Current diseases that cross borders, as we saw with Covid-19, are a clear example of the importance of collaboration and partnerships between institutions from different countries, in this case, the Fiocruz and the Barcelona Institute of Global Health”, he reinforced.
Present at the meeting were ISGlobal policy coordinator Clara Marin and Spanish researcher Elisabet Diago.
Do IOC, the deputy directors Elizabeth Rangel, Elmo Amaral, Luciana Garzoni and Wania Santiago participated; chief of staff Daniel Daipert; researchers Flávia Ribeiro Gomes, Fernando Vargas and Martha Mutis; and postdoctoral fellows Roberto Ferreira and Eduardo Sergio da Silva.
Also present were the coordinators of Institutional Cooperation, Anna Cristina Carvalho; from the Technological Innovation Center, Aline Moraes; from the Technical Chamber of Environment and Health, Tereza Favre; of Strategic Planning, Budget and Institutional Technical Cooperation, Ana Claudia Pena; and the advisor to the Deputy Board of Education, Information and Communication, Norma Brandão.
Representing the Fiocruz, attended by Rodrigo Correia Oliveira, vice-president of Research and Biological Collections; and Emanuelle Batista, Health Management analyst at the Center for International Health Relations (CRIS/Fiocruz).
The signature of the Work Plan between the IOC and ISGlobal is a result of a visit by the Board of IOC to Spanish and Portuguese institutions in April last year.
On the occasion, in addition to the ISGlobal headquarters in Barcelona, the group was also at the University of Aveiro (Portugal) — which houses the International Platform for Science, Technology and Innovation in Health (PICTIS), a body established through an agreement between the Fiocruz, through the IOC, and the University.
The work plan encourages international cooperation in research and technological development to face emerging and reemerging diseases of global relevance, such as arboviruses, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, malaria and tuberculosis. Other conditions associated with poverty will also be investigated.
The project also aims to improve approaches on epidemiological surveillance and studies on environmental health and the impact of climate change on health, through the structuring and co-financing of thematic lines of investigation.
In the training of human resources, the exchange of master's students, doctoral students, young researchers, resident physicians and health professionals from different countries, such as Brazil, Spain, Bolivia and Mozambique, is planned.
After the meeting, ISGlobal members participated in a guided visit to the Moorish Castle of Fiocruz and got to know some installations of the IOC, such as the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Entomological Surveillance in Diptera and Hemiptera and the Electronic Microscopy Technological Platform.
Tania Araujo-Jorge with Antoni Plasència and Ángel Vázquez visiting the Castle. Photo: Gutemberg Brito
The directors of ISGlobal and the IOC, Antoni Plasència and Tania Araujo Jorge, during the signing of the document. Photo: Gutemberg Brito
The Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) and the Instituto de Salud Global (ISGlobal), from Spain, signed last Wednesday, February 15, the Work Plan that strengthens partnerships between the two institutions.
Entitled “International cooperation between IOC and ISGlobal: innovation in global health to face infectious and neglected diseases”, the document establishes goals and expectations for the next two years in the areas of research, training of human resources and contribution to public policies.
“The Work Plan formalizes partnerships that have existed for a long time between the institutions and expands the possibility for laboratories and researchers to work on themes of common interest”, highlighted the director of the IOC, Tania Araujo-Jorge.
“Health understands no borders. Scientific cooperation is a fundamental element in protecting citizens, communities, society and the planet. We are doing this collaboratively to try to better understand some of the health problems that affect humanity and, together, produce knowledge and new solutions”, guaranteed ISGlobal director Antoni Plasència.
Accompanying the agreement, held at Castelo Mourisco da Fiocruz (RJ), the Consul General of Spain in Rio de Janeiro, Ángel Vázquez, stressed the relevance of the partnership.
"Current diseases that cross borders, as we saw with Covid-19, are a clear example of the importance of collaboration and partnerships between institutions from different countries, in this case, the Fiocruz and the Barcelona Institute of Global Health”, he reinforced.
Present at the meeting were ISGlobal policy coordinator Clara Marin and Spanish researcher Elisabet Diago.
Do IOC, the deputy directors Elizabeth Rangel, Elmo Amaral, Luciana Garzoni and Wania Santiago participated; chief of staff Daniel Daipert; researchers Flávia Ribeiro Gomes, Fernando Vargas and Martha Mutis; and postdoctoral fellows Roberto Ferreira and Eduardo Sergio da Silva.
Also present were the coordinators of Institutional Cooperation, Anna Cristina Carvalho; from the Technological Innovation Center, Aline Moraes; from the Technical Chamber of Environment and Health, Tereza Favre; of Strategic Planning, Budget and Institutional Technical Cooperation, Ana Claudia Pena; and the advisor to the Deputy Board of Education, Information and Communication, Norma Brandão.
Representing the Fiocruz, attended by Rodrigo Correia Oliveira, vice-president of Research and Biological Collections; and Emanuelle Batista, Health Management analyst at the Center for International Health Relations (CRIS/Fiocruz).
The signature of the Work Plan between the IOC and ISGlobal is a result of a visit by the Board of IOC to Spanish and Portuguese institutions in April last year.
On the occasion, in addition to the ISGlobal headquarters in Barcelona, the group was also at the University of Aveiro (Portugal) — which houses the International Platform for Science, Technology and Innovation in Health (PICTIS), a body established through an agreement between the Fiocruz, through the IOC, and the University.
The work plan encourages international cooperation in research and technological development to face emerging and reemerging diseases of global relevance, such as arboviruses, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, malaria and tuberculosis. Other conditions associated with poverty will also be investigated.
The project also aims to improve approaches on epidemiological surveillance and studies on environmental health and the impact of climate change on health, through the structuring and co-financing of thematic lines of investigation.
In the training of human resources, the exchange of master's students, doctoral students, young researchers, resident physicians and health professionals from different countries, such as Brazil, Spain, Bolivia and Mozambique, is planned.
After the meeting, ISGlobal members participated in a guided visit to the Moorish Castle of Fiocruz and got to know some installations of the IOC, such as the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Entomological Surveillance in Diptera and Hemiptera and the Electronic Microscopy Technological Platform.
Tania Araujo-Jorge with Antoni Plasència and Ángel Vázquez visiting the Castle. Photo: Gutemberg Brito
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