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INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH
AND BIOSTATISTICS
presentation
The International Public Health and Biosta-
tistics Unit, a WHO Collaborating Centre
for Health Workforce Policy and Plan-
ning, engages in research and teaching
activities in the following areas: health
policy; health systems and services; hu-
man resources for health; migration and
population mobility; training in health and
HIV/AIDS. In 2015 the Unit strengthened
its current activities by engaging in re-
search projects both at national and in-
ternational level, and publishing in top
journals and participating in books edit-
ing. In teaching, the Unit started offer-
ing the streaming modality for building
capacity among overseas health profes-
sionals and social workers in areas such
as international health, and health devel-
opment, through masters and doctorate
level courses, as well as the soon to be
launched Public Health Specialisation
Course for physicians in Portugal. The
Unit strengthened its cooperation, partic-
ularly with countries from the Portuguese
Speaking Community (CPLP), where
cooperation activities were also carried
out in the health domain alongside the
traditional teaching and research work.
The Unit’s geographic focus has been on
low-income countries and on Portugal,
with particular emphasis on Portuguese
Speaking community.
MAIN RESEARCH topics
In 2015 the Unit was active in key areas
such as the epidemiology and evolution
of HIV; on sexually transmitted disease
among men who have sex with men and
migrant communities; on human resourc-
es for health in Europe and Portuguese-
speaking Africa; on urban planning and
health inequalities in Cape Verde, and on
impact of alcohol consumption in Africa.
New research projects were started on
physician dual practice in low-income
settings, on bimolecular and epidemio-
logical surveillance of HIV transmission,
and on management and prevention of
hospital infections. Fifty-six papers were
published in peer-reviewed journals, 54%
of which in Scopus highest quintile, with
a median impact factor of 1.96. There
were publications in the Unit’s traditional
research areas of human resources for
health, HIV epidemics and migrants’
health, but also in new areas such as
urban planning and health, and on the
use of evidence in health policy making
in resource-scarce settings.
TOP 5 PUBLICAÇÕES
PUBLICATIONS
Abecasis AB, van Laethem K, Theys
K:
Lack of evidence for the selection
of E138 mutations by first-generation
non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase
inhibitors in patients infected with
HIV-1 non-B subtypes
. AIDS 2015,
29:987-988.
Dias S, Gama A, Fuertes R, Mendao L,
Barros H:
Risk-taking behaviours and
HIV infection among sex workers in
Portugal: results from a cross-section-
al survey
. Sexually Transmitted Infec-
tions 2015, 91:346-U387.
Ferreira-Borges C, Rehm J, Dias S, Ba-
bor T, Parry CDH:
The impact of alco-
hol consumption on African people in
2012: an analysis of burden of disease
.
Tropical Medicine & International Health
2015, 21(1): 52-60.
Goncalves L, Santos Z, Amado M,
Alves D, Simoes R, Delgado AP, Correia
A, Cabral J, Lapao LV, Craveiro I:
Urban
Planning and Health Inequities: Look-
ing in a Small-Scale in a City of Cape
Verde
. Plos One 2015, 10.
Russo G, Goncalves L, Craveiro I,
Dussault G:
Feminization of the medi-
cal workforce in low-income settings;
findings from surveys in three African
capital cities
. Human Resources for
Health 2015, 13.
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