ABSTRACT
Evidence of the impacts of corporate food systems on people's health raised concerns about the multiple outcomes of malnutrition and climate change, including commodities production and high consumption of ultra-processed food products. The COVID-19 pandemic overwhelms this scenario, highlighting the urgency for improvements in governance spaces and regulatory measures that can tackle the advance of large corporations, which act exclusively based on their private interests.
ABSTRACT
Evidence of the impacts of corporate food systems on people’s health raised concerns about the multiple outcomes of malnutrition and climate change, including commodities production and high consumption of ultra-processed food products. The COVID-19 pandemic overwhelms this scenario, highlighting the urgency for improvements in governance spaces and regulatory measures that can tackle the advance of large corporations, which act exclusively based on their private interests.
ABSTRACT
In times of the COVID-19 pandemic, adequate, reliable and timely information becomes even more relevant. The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization office in Brazil and key partners have developed initiatives to improve access, sharing and dissemination of the information and knowledge produced, translated and systematized about COVID-19 as a technical contribution to the fight against the pandemic. This article presents some of these resources. The production and synthesis of knowledge made available in a timely manner to professionals on the frontline of response to COVID-19 is essential and a basic requirement for improving response capacity. It is also important to strengthen and increase investment in the production of scientific evidence, and to recognize and build upon the tireless work of a large group of scientists and institutions that continue to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
En tiempos de la pandemia por la COVID-19, la información adecuada, fiable y oportuna se vuelve aún más relevante. La oficina de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud/Organización Mundial de la Salud en el Brasil y sus contrapartes han desarrollado iniciativas para favorecer el acceso, el intercambio y la difusión de la información y los conocimientos producidos, traducidos y sistematizados sobre la COVID-19 como contribución técnica a la lucha contra la pandemia. Este artículo presenta algunos de estos recursos. Es fundamental considerar como de máxima relevancia la producción y síntesis de conocimientos puestos a disposición de manera oportuna para los profesionales que se encuentran en la primera línea de respuesta a la COVID-19; este es un requisito básico para mejorar la capacidad de respuesta. También es importante fortalecer y aumentar la inversión en la producción de evidencia científica, y reconocer y fortalecer la labor incansable de un enorme grupo de científicos e instituciones que siguen respondiendo a la pandemia por la COVID-19.