INFRASTRUCTURE

Research Groups

 GROUP FOR TRANSDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES (GETESA)

Leader: Tatiana Chama Borges Luz

 

Considering IRR’s mission to “improve the population’s quality of life by meeting national health needs through research, technological development, innovation, teaching, and reference services”, GETESA’s central objectives are to produce knowledge, train human resources for research, conduct academic knowledge transfer (“knowledge exchange”), and perform health education and scientific dissemination activities, with a view to improving health systems and societies as a whole. The structuring axes of the group’s research are investigations in health and environmental technologies, which are organized into three pillars: research, teaching, and extension.

The group’s main areas and lines of activity are:

  • Public Policies, Planning and Management in Health: formulation, implementation, monitoring, and assessment of health policies and programs; distribution, access, and use of health technologies and services; evidence for health policies and technologies;
  • Epidemiology, statistical and quantitative methods: development of epidemiological study methods and designs and their application to the assessment of health programs and services; study of social and environmental determinants of health;
  • Health Promotion: Construction of intervention methodologies on health situations; work and health processes, strategies and educational materials in science and health;
  • Health Assessment and Health Economics: Pharmaceutical Care; Assessment of health practices, services, and technologies;
  • Science and Health Education: Conceptions and Practices in Health Workers Education; Professional Education;
  • Environment, Ecology, and Health: Environmental exposures and life cycle effects assessment; the influence of the environment on human quality of life.

 

 

CLINICAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC POLICIES IN INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES – (PCPP)

Leader: Glaucia Fernandes Cota

 

The Group’s mission is to carry out research, technological development, innovation, and human resource training related to the diagnosis, clinical, therapeutic, and control of infectious and parasitic diseases of social importance in Brazil. It originated in 1997, with the creation of the Clinical Research Laboratory (LPC), which included an outpatient center and carried out research activities on leishmaniasis and schistosomiasis. In 2005, the clinic and the LPC were accredited as a National Reference Laboratory in Tegumentary Leishmaniasis for the National System of Public Health Laboratories (SISLAB) of the Health Surveillance Office (SVS) of the Ministry of Health. In 2015, due to an organizational restructuring of the René Rachou Institute, the LPC gave rise to the PCPP research group, a milestone of the official expansion of its objectives beyond clinical research with a focus on leishmaniasis and incorporation of studies in other infectious-parasitic diseases and in the area of health policies, social, historical, and political impact of epidemic processes, and disease-culture-society interaction.

 

The group’s main areas and lines of activity are:

 

  • Clinical Research and Clinical Trials
  • Health and Gender, Health of the Elderly
  • Health Assessment and Economics
  • Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy and Health, Culture, and Society
  • History, Health, and Science
  • Non-formal education and dissemination of science and health
  • Research and Development of drugs and pharmaceuticals
  • Research and Development of diagnostic methods

 

CENTER FOR STUDIES IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND AGING (NESPE)

Leaders: Sérgio Viana Peixoto and Maria Fernanda Lima e Costa

 

The group’s mission is to develop research in public health, with emphasis on the health of the elderly, using epidemiological and anthropological approaches. Recently, other projects have been added, broadening this group’s scope.

Thus, NESPE proposes to work with two lines of research, considering that the projects currently conducted adequately support these lines:

  • Aging and Health: This line is dedicated to studies on human aging, comprising epidemiological and anthropological approaches. The projects anchored in this line aim at producing evidence for a better understanding of the sociocultural and biological determinants of aging and the consequences of this process for the health system.
  • Health-related conditions and their determinants: This line is supported by epidemiological, sectional, and longitudinal studies on health-related conditions in specific populations, seeking to understand the factors related to these conditions, contributing to actions in public health.

 

 

 

PUBLIC POLICIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN HEALTH AND SANITATION (PPDH)

 Leaders: Leo Heller and Celina Maria Modena

 

The PPDH Group, created in 2015, is focused on health and sanitation, and its analytical perspectives are in the fields of human rights and public policies. Thus, it examines and focuses on the reality of the health and sanitation areas, from a critical perspective at the public policies under which they are organized and emphasizing, in this perspective, their human rights dimensions, from the State’s obligations and this field’s theoretical analytical frameworks.

 

In this perspective, the Group develops projects focused on the areas of:

  • Environment, Ecology, and Health: studies the relationships and interventions between man and the environment and their reflexes on individual and collective health; environmental management and health; sanitation and environmental health, including children’s health; Environmental aspects in the spread of emerging and re-emerging diseases;  The influence of the environment on man’s quality of life;  Healthy and Sustainable Territories;  Urban Health; Environmental Determinants and Health;
  • Epidemiology, statistical and quantitative methods: Study of social and environmental health determinants; Social and spatial organization and living conditions of social groups; Assessment of living conditions and lifestyle, and social and environmental health problems determinants;
  • Public Policies, Planning and Management in Health: Development, State, and Health; Institutions, participation, and social control; Formulation, implementation, monitoring, and assessment of health policies and programs; Policy, planning, systems administration and management, and health organization;  Social inequalities, development model, and health;  Law, health, and citizenship;  Public policies for health of intersectorial and territorial interest;
  • Public Policies for Health in Territories: Health Promotion, Environment and Work; Mental Health, Alcohol, and Other Drugs; Healthy and Sustainable Territories;

 

 

HEALTH AND SOCIAL PROTECTION POLICIES (PSPS)

Leader: Rômulo Paes de Sousa

 

The Health Policies and Social Protection research group’s mission is to develop research, teaching, human resources training, technological development, and institutional cooperation activities, contributing to the implementation of a public, universal, equitable, and quality health system. To achieve this purpose, the group is dedicated to studies on the processes of organization of health systems and services in Brazil, both in the public and private sectors, seeking to understand the arrangements and strategies for financing, provision, and unequal patterns of access to health goods and services in relation to the population’s regional and spatial differences and socioeconomic patterns.

The group’s main areas and lines of activity are:

  • Epidemiology, statistical and quantitative methods: Study of social and environmental health determinants; Social and spatial organization and living conditions of social groups; Health situation studies; Assessment of life style and living conditions, and socio-environmental health problems determinants.
  • Public Policies, Planning and Management in Health: Organization and financing of public and private health systems; Formulation, implementation, monitoring, and assessment of health policies and programs; Policy, planning, administration, and management of systems and health organization; Social inequalities, development model, and health; Public policies for health of intersectorial and territorial interest; Evidences for health policies and technologies.
  • Health Promotion: Strategies for survival of the popular classes

 

 

HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND CITIZENSHIP (SEC)

Leader: Zélia Maria Profeta

 

The Group has been working since 2010 on multiple diverse objects and approaches from the evaluative and health services organization perspective. In evaluative research, we highlight research in the field of urban health in special areas of social interest (Vila Viva Program) and the implementation of the national Vitamin A supplementation program in Brazil. From 2015, the research work has been diversifying and from the Fundão Dam disaster, owned by Samarco, and more recently in 2019 the Vale disaster in Brumadinho, we have carried out activities with the health departments. Also since 2015, with the triple epidemic of dengue, zika, and chikungunya, the group has been acting more strongly in the field of health surveillance, aiming to create knowledge to strengthen social mobilization to fight dengue, zika, and chikungunya and control the Aedes aegypti.

 

Areas and Lines of Research in which the Group operates

  • Environment, Ecology, and Health: Studies the relationships and interventions between man and the environment and their reflexes on individual and collective health: Healthy and Sustainable Territories;
  • Health Surveillance: Dedicated to the study of health surveillance in a broad conception that integrates epidemiological surveillance, health surveillance, and surveillance of worker’s health; Systems and methods of health surveillance
  • Public Policies for Health in Territories: It is dedicated to studies and research aimed at the formulation, implementation, and assessment of health policies of intersectoral and territorial interest; Epidemiology and health surveillance; healthy and sustainable territories.

 

 

VIOLENCE, GENDER, AND HEALTH (VGS)

 Leader: Paula Dias Bevilacqua

 

 

The group’s research and activities transit through different themes and include, as investigative perspectives, qualitative and quantitative approaches to the phenomena of interest, and the gender lens has been a recurrent and significant choice to reflect on the themes addressed. Currently, the group is dedicated to the description and analysis of processes that influenced the constitution of networks to face violence against women, their components, and the relationships among them; to the problematization of the current and future political paths on the confrontation of gender violence; to contribute with subsidies to the revision and improvement of norms and legal documents on the confrontation of violence against women; to the improvement of violence surveillance in the scope of SUS and for the intersectorial work with the confrontation of violence against women network; to situation analysis of mortality, morbidity, and notification of violence, considering the gender, race/color and age intersectionalities.

 

Areas and Lines of Research in which the Group operates

  • Public Policies, Planning and Management in Health: Institutions, participation and social control; Public policies for health of intersectorial and territorial interest
  • Health Promotion: Violence and its impact on quality of life and health;
  • Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy and Health, Culture, and Society: Violence and Gender.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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