Line 1: Information in Science, Technology and Innovation in Health
It is dedicated to the investigation of policies, processes, and products related to the production, organization, access, dissemination, diffusion, and use of information and knowledge in the field of public health. From multiple theoretical-methodological perspectives, it prioritizes the study of:
- Production regimes, regulation, and new dynamics of scientific research in health, particularly open science, citizen science, and other emerging movements, analysis of collaboration networks, scientific mobility, gender, and equity in research.
- Information infrastructures in the health field, including libraries, digital platforms, repositories, and virtual environments, languages, standards, data sharing, FAIR principles, and the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
- Evaluation in science, technology, and innovation (S,T&I) in health, particularly, metric studies, methodologies, sources, and analysis tools (scientometrics, bibliometrics, and altmetrics), production of indicators, among others.
- Science, technology, and innovation policies in health, including information policies, open access policies, open data policies, research funding, and related policies.
- Information, science, health, and society, particularly, data literacy, information literacy, health literacy, scientific communication and outreach, and community engagement for health research.
- Analysis, organization, and synthesis of scientific information, including literature reviews, knowledge translation, implementation research, and other supporting methodologies for Evidence-Based Health, monitoring, and foresight in S,T&I information in health
Line 2: Communication, Power and Social Processes in Health
With the premise that the right to communication is inseparable from the right to health, this research line studies the relationships between social groups, health institutions, and communication professionals in their various forms of organization. It is dedicated to conceptual discussion, the development, and application of methodologies aimed at understanding cultural mediations and the power relations involved in social processes of production, circulation, and appropriation of meanings related to health.
Its research focuses prioritize the study of:
- Communication, information, and health public systems and policies, as well as their processes and products.
- Production of meanings about health in the media, in its multiple discursive forms, sociocultural configurations, and processes of subjectivation.
- (Re)configurations of forms of sociability, work, experiences, and political actions in health, at their interfaces with contemporary information and communication technologies, with an emphasis on the study of digital media.
Line 3: Information for Analysis, Surveillance, Monitoring and Evaluation in Health
It focuses on the analysis of policies, production, organization, and use of information for the assessment, surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation of health systems, the health status of the Brazilian population, and its social and environmental determinants. From various theoretical-methodological perspectives, the study prioritizes:
- Health surveys and national health research.
- Health information and surveillance.
- Health information and the challenges of demographic and epidemiological transitions.
- Innovation and technology in health information monitoring and analysis.
- Appropriateness of methods that use information from national systems to assess health situations.
- Use of information sources and quantitative methods to assess health systems and services.
- Systematization and analysis of information for the formulation of public policies, monitoring, and evaluation of the health situation in Brazil and its socio-environmental determinants.
- Production of health information: concepts, processes, and instruments.
- Evaluation of health information systems.
- Relationships between communication, intersectionality, and the production of social inequalities in health, emphasizing concepts and practices aimed at democratic, decentralized, and emancipatory communication.
- Communication processes within care networks, services, training, and practices of health professionals, users, and managers, with an emphasis on the Unified Health System (SUS).