2nd ENEIS brings together researchers, entrepreneurs and investors from the health ecosystem

Bring together experts, professors, researchers, students, investors and successful entrepreneurs, aiming to promote interaction between the main actors in the health innovation ecosystem. This was the main objective of the 2nd National Meeting of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Health - ENEIS, promoted by Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, in partnership with the State University of Bahia, the Gonçalo Moniz Institute (FIOCRUZ BA) and the Integrated Campus of Manufacturing and Technology (SENAI/CIMATEC). The event was held on March 19 and 20, virtually, with real-time transmission through the institution's official channel on the YouTube. The first day was programmed with a set of six thematic workshops that covered the different stages of the production chain of technology and health product development.

Held on the morning of the 20th, the opening ceremony was attended by the dean of Bahiana, Dr. Maria Luisa Carvalho Soliani, from the coordinator of the UNEB Innovation Agency, Dr. José Gileá, from the director of the Gonçalo Muniz Institute (FIOCRUZ), Dr. Marilda de Souza Gonçalves, from the dean of Postgraduate Studies and Research at SENAI/CIMATEC Integrated Campus of Manufacturing and Technology, Dr. Jailson de Andrade, the medical director of the Pain Therapy Clinic, Dr. Angiolina Kraychete, the State Secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation (SECTI), Dr. Adélia Pinheiro, and the Dean of Research, Innovation and Post-Graduate Education Stricto Sensu, also President of the 2nd ENEIS, prof. Dr. Atson Fernandes, who at the time publicly honored the coordinator of the Center for Technological Innovation and the Center for Health Research (NIT/NUPS), Prof. Me Fernanda Ferraz, for the excellence in organizing the event.

In her words, Dr. Maria Luisa showed her indignation with the current situation in the country, facing the pandemic, and lamented the nearly 300 killed by COVID-19: "There is no innovation, no technology, no individual entrepreneurship because it depends on public policies that are made by public entities, made by the Federal Government, made by Congress. So we need policies. And we have been talking, lately, about a policy that has led to death." She ended her speech by drawing everyone's attention to the importance of innovating and undertaking, as citizens, a solution that would take the country out of its current situation.

"Science, technology, innovation, entrepreneurship. These are the elements that, at the present time, are capable of going against all the difficulties that we are going through", said Dr. Adélia Pinheiro, in her speech that started the works on the second day of ENEIS, whose program included the presentation of four panels aimed at the development of science, innovation and technologies in health. 

Learn more at: www.eneis.net