An initiative of cooperation in Zika virus research: the experience of the ZIKABRA study in Brazil.
Silvana Pereira GiozzaXimena Pamela Díaz BermúdezEdna Oliveira KaraGuilherme Amaral CalvetAna Maria Bispo de FilippisMarcus Vinícius Guimarães LacerdaCamila Helena Aguiar Bôtto-MenezesMarcia da Costa CastilhoRafael Freitas Oliveira FrancaArmando Menezes NetoCasey StormeNoemia S LimaKayvon ModjarradMaria Cristina Pimenta de OliveiraGerson Fernando Mendes PereiraNathalie Broutetnull nullPublished in: BMC public health (2021)
We highlight the importance of working in cooperation between different institutional actors to achieve more significant results than that obtained by each group working in isolation. In addition, we point out the advantages of training activities, ongoing supervision, the construction of local installed research capacity, training academic and non-academic human resources, improvement of laboratory equipment, knowledge transfer and the availability of the ZIKABRA study protocol for development of similar studies, favoring the collective construction of knowledge to provide public health emergency responses. Strategy harmonization; human resources and health services; timing and recruiting particularities and processing institutional clearance in the different sites can be mentioned as challenges in this type of initiative.