The relationship between the biosciences and health. Advances in biomedical sciences.
Environmental health. Biomarkers in health. Innovation in the biosciences and health.

Philosophical and epistemological bases of interdisciplinary practice. Evolution
the history of healthcare models. Transformation of practices
professionals and the health work process. Technologies (light, light-hard and hard) for interdisciplinary work in health.

Fundamental concepts and discussions on the relationship between the State and the
social production of health. History of public policies in Brazil with an emphasis on
Unified Health System (SUS). Concepts of health planning and management. Intersectoral policies and care networks.

Paradigms of scientific research. Research methods and techniques. Types of
research and the construction of the research project. Ethics Committee for Research with Human Beings and Ethics Committee for the Use of Animals. Bibliographic search tools. Scientific publications and their impact. Research as a health promotion tool.

Basic epidemiological concepts and their application in health. Quantitative vs. qualitative health research. Health indicators. Measures of disease occurrence and measures of risk/association. Epidemiological designs. Biases. Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Principles of biostatistics. Database creation and management. Descriptive statistics. Principles of inferential statistics. Data distribution. Application and interpretation of statistical tests.

Historical context. Main concepts. Bioethical principles and main bioethical currents. Consent and free and informed consent. Revealing the truth. Moral conflicts and methods of deliberation. End-of-life issues: orthothanasia, euthanasia and dysthanasia. Biotechnologies. Biodoctrinal topics. The environment and human health. Research on human beings and animals. Integrity in research and plagiarism.

Theoretical assumptions for choosing an interdisciplinary teaching and learning method. Higher education methodology. Planning and didactic organization in higher education. Formulating lesson and teaching plans and assessment methods. Presentation of techniques relevant to the interdisciplinary approach in higher education. Theoretical foundations and interdisciplinarity in health education. Permanent education and popular education in health. Pedagogical practices and health education practices. Participatory planning for health education.

Demographic and individual aging; Aging process and Integral Health of the Elderly; Interdisciplinary action in the care of the elderly.

Free software-based academic workflow. Free text and spreadsheet managers. Reference management software. Free cloud services. Low cost Science.

Good laboratory practices. Basic methodologies applied in biomedical science laboratories. Data collection, analysis and interpretation.

Topics chosen according to the needs assessed by the Program's collegiate body, in order to update the student on content that complements their training.

Apply tools for the creation, development and management of startups, with a focus on the lean startup methodology, in the context of innovative entrepreneurship and innovation strategy. Design thinking; business model canvas; lean startup principles. Using the resources of the entrepreneurs' innovation ecosystem and methods, techniques and processes for implementing innovations.

Data distribution. Normality calculations. Chi-squared test and Fisher's exact test. t-tests. z-tests. f-tests. Analysis of variance. Variance, covariance and correlations. Linear regression.

Discussion of issues relating to the policies, planning and management of health systems and services in the national and international context: State, market and society and their repercussions for health policies and systems; Governance and democracy; Strategies and techniques related to the incorporation of evaluation in health management; Public-private relationship in health management; Supplementary health; Management at different levels of health care, life cycles and spheres of government. Health work management.

Participation of the doctoral student in the whole process involving teaching, in teaching activities in Higher Education.

Categories of scientific publications. Fundamental elements for preparing scientific communication. Stages of writing scientific articles. Submission and relationship with editors/reviewers of scientific journals.

presentation and discussion of thesis projects in the second year of the doctorate.

presentation and discussion of third year doctoral thesis projects.

Presentation and discussion of the thesis in the final year of the doctorate.

presentation and discussion of current scientific articles in a foreign language (English or Spanish).

Innovative technologies in biosciences and health, telemedicine and remote care, artificial intelligence applied to biosciences and health, systems to aid medical diagnosis using medical signals and images.