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CURRICULUM, INSTRUCTION, AND PEDAGOGY article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1562010
This article is part of the Research Topic Innovative Teaching and Learning in Health Education and Promotion View all 23 articles
Strengthening health sector capacities through permanent health education: workshops addressing public health emergencies in Brazil
Provisionally accepted
Taynna Vernalha Almeida Danielly Portes Schelle *
Paula Orofino Costa Isabella de Oliveira Miquilin Caroline Martins Santos 
Paola Freitas de Oliveira Joelma Ferreira Castro Leonora Rios Moreira Vinicius Chozo Inoue Edenilo Baltazar Filho Marcio Henrique Garcia - Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, Brazil
This initiative strengthens Brazil's Unified Health System (SUS) by enhancing preparedness, public health surveillance, and response capacities to public health emergencies across 27 Federative Units (FUs). Employing andragogical active methodologies, 156 action plans were developed, addressing preparedness (34.7%), public health surveillance (31.8%), and response (33.5%). Training in small groups fostered situational analyses, collaborative planning, and practical application of theoretical knowledge, creating a scalable and replicable model for nationwide implementation.
Keywords: emergency preparedness, Public Health Surveillance, Permanent health education, Active learning methods, Professional Development, Brazil
Received: 16 Jan 2025; Accepted: 17 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Almeida, Schelle, Costa, Miquilin, Santos, de Oliveira, Castro, Moreira, Inoue, Filho and Garcia. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Danielly Portes Schelle, Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, Brazil
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