Bahiana receives the ABMES Socially Responsible Institution Seal 2025/2026

A Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública For the 15th consecutive time, it has received the Socially Responsible Institution Seal, now valid for 2025/2026. The certification, granted by Brazilian Association of Higher Education Supporters (ABMES)It recognizes entities that carry out actions and policies with a positive social impact in the communities where they are located.

Since its founding, the Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública It has distinguished itself through the implementation of initiatives aimed at both serving the most vulnerable populations and developing scientific research directed towards strengthening the Unified Health System (SUS). Social responsibility is present in all of its actions. Bahiana, reflecting, above all, the commitment to training qualified, ethical professionals guided by a humanistic vision of healthcare.

Examples of these actions and policies include the socio-environmental programs "Zero Cavities," "First Aid for All," "Caring with PICS," "Youth Care Center," "Candeal Networks," and "Extension." Bahiana "In Defense of Life." Within its humanistic training, the institution develops, together with the students, the training programs "Home Guidance and Exercises for People with HAM/TSP," "Nursing Care Feels Good" (carried out in its various clinics), and the Health Education/Interprofessionality and Tutorial Education programs – PET Dentistry and Tutorial Education – PET Biomedicine. Bahiana It also carries out the projects "First Aid for All", "Health Fair Caring Feels Good", "Project Olhar (TE) – Artistic Perspectives on (In)sanity", "Laboratory Project for Clinical Practices in Psychological Support in the context of Covid-19" and the "Extension Project in Clinical Practices in Outpatient Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology".