The Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) and Agostinho Neto University (UAN), in Luanda (Angola), signed a memorandum of understanding for future partnerships in teaching and research between the institutions.
Representing another step in the search for closer ties with African institutions, the partnership aims at mutual collaboration in the following areas: neglected tropical diseases, with emphasis on Malaria and Tuberculosis; communicable diseases; arboviruses; antimicrobial resistance (AMR); HIV; climate and health; maternal, child and reproductive health, among others.
Anna Cristina Calçada Carvalho (left) during the signing of the memorandum at Agostinho Neto University. Photo: personal collection
Participating in the signing, held in virtual format last Thursday (22/06), the director of IOC, Tania Araujo-Jorge, and deputy directors Luciana Garzoni (Research, Technological Development and Innovation) and Ademir Martins (Education, Information and Communication). The coordinator of the Institute's Institutional Cooperation, Anna Cristina Calçada Carvalho, was present at the rectory of Agostinho Neto University during the ceremony.
On the Angolan side, the rector of the UAN, Pedro Magalhães, and the professors of the Faculty of Medicine of the University, Maria Fernanda Dias Afonso Monteiro and Joaquim Vandunem participated.
“It is part of the institutional cooperation policy to reinforce technical-scientific partnerships with countries in the southern hemisphere, especially those in Portuguese. the focus of IOC is to contribute to the formation of human resources in these places. We can help them face public health problems linked, especially, to transmissible diseases”, commented Anna Cristina.
The coordinator also pointed out that all Graduate Programs Strict sensu of the Institute are involved in the partnership.
“AFiocruz and the IOC have a long history of collaboration with Angola and Mozambique. In previous agreements signed for the training of human resources, more than fifty people were awarded masters or doctors”, he pointed out, adding that the next step is to elaborate, together with the UAN, a work plan to continue the partnership.
“We have a meeting scheduled for August with representatives of the Angolan university to deal with the matter”, he added.
The term of the memorandum of understanding signed between the institutions is five years.
The Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) and Agostinho Neto University (UAN), in Luanda (Angola), signed a memorandum of understanding for future partnerships in teaching and research between the institutions.
Representing another step in the search for closer ties with African institutions, the partnership aims at mutual collaboration in the following areas: neglected tropical diseases, with emphasis on Malaria and Tuberculosis; communicable diseases; arboviruses; antimicrobial resistance (AMR); HIV; climate and health; maternal, child and reproductive health, among others.
Anna Cristina Calçada Carvalho (left) during the signing of the memorandum at Agostinho Neto University. Photo: personal collection
Participating in the signing, held in virtual format last Thursday (22/06), the director of IOC, Tania Araujo-Jorge, and deputy directors Luciana Garzoni (Research, Technological Development and Innovation) and Ademir Martins (Education, Information and Communication). The coordinator of the Institute's Institutional Cooperation, Anna Cristina Calçada Carvalho, was present at the rectory of Agostinho Neto University during the ceremony.
On the Angolan side, the rector of the UAN, Pedro Magalhães, and the professors of the Faculty of Medicine of the University, Maria Fernanda Dias Afonso Monteiro and Joaquim Vandunem participated.
“It is part of the institutional cooperation policy to reinforce technical-scientific partnerships with countries in the southern hemisphere, especially those in Portuguese. the focus of IOC is to contribute to the formation of human resources in these places. We can help them face public health problems linked, especially, to transmissible diseases”, commented Anna Cristina.
The coordinator also pointed out that all Graduate Programs Strict sensu of the Institute are involved in the partnership.
“AFiocruz and the IOC have a long history of collaboration with Angola and Mozambique. In previous agreements signed for the training of human resources, more than fifty people were awarded masters or doctors”, he pointed out, adding that the next step is to elaborate, together with the UAN, a work plan to continue the partnership.
“We have a meeting scheduled for August with representatives of the Angolan university to deal with the matter”, he added.
The term of the memorandum of understanding signed between the institutions is five years.
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