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A new strategic partnership between Fiocruz and The Global Health Network will amplify the impact of Fiocruz’s health research and capacity development initiatives by promoting research capacity building across Portuguese-speaking countries, and enabling research findings from the Zika outbreak to benefit public health worldwide.

Fiocruz, one of the world’s leading public health institutions and Brazil’s institute for health science and technology, has signed an agreement with The Global Health Network at the University of Oxford to enable evidence generated from research to drive improvements in global health in the most resource-poor and hard to reach areas of the globe.

Read more (Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine website)

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