The Alliance of Health Research Institutes accredited by the ISCIII celebrates three years
The ibs.GRANADA was accredited by the Carlos III Health Institute on November 30, 2015
La Alliance of Health Research Institutes (IIS) accredited by the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) has just turned three years since its birth, in November 2019. It is a joint work forum between the IIS, biomedical research centers whose core are health centers and hospitals of the National Health System; Its objective is to generate and transfer multidisciplinary knowledge to respond to people's health needs and, ultimately, contribute to a more just and open society based on knowledge.
Currently there 34 IIS accredited by the ISCIII, distributed throughout Spain, after the recent incorporation of the Galicia Sur Health Research Institute, with its headquarters in Vigo. These 34 IIS bring together 176 centers (hospitals, health centers, universities, research centers, companies...) and more than 24.000 researchers in the field of biomedicine and health in Spain, and represent the link between scientific systems , academic and health care. This model of institutes, in which researchers carry out their activity in the same physical environment, next to the healthcare spaces of centers of the National Health System, and in close proximity to citizens, is now 13 years old since its creation.
In 2009, the first five Health Research Institutes were accredited, and by the end of 2010 the number had already reached ten. In 2011 another six were added; two more in 2012; another four in 2014; seven in 2015; in 2019 another three were incorporated; in 2021 another was added, and this year the number 34 has reached, a figure that is expected to continue growing in the near future with the incorporation of those institutes that meet the necessary criteria, to continue expanding the OSI model and continue enriching the Alliance and progressing in the development of your goals.
The IIS Alliance is currently developing reports addressing six topics, prioritized by their impact: Internationalization; Data management; Incorporation of non-scientific actors in the activity of the IIS; Integration of the management related to the scientific activity of the research groups attached to the IIS; Incorporation of research in Primary Care and Nursing Care, and Dissemination of Science in non-scientific fields. Knowledge generated and upcoming publications.
Knowledge generated and upcoming publications
These working groups continue the work of others, generated in the last three years, and which have given rise to public reports on IIS Researcher Career, Strategies to facilitate the development of Open Access in the IIS, Gender Perspective y Review of indicators for monitoring the activity of the IIS. In the same way, the reports derived from the working groups formed this year within the Alliance will be disseminated in the first months of 2023.
After start of its activity at the end of 2019, the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 set other priorities and with it the development of the Alliance slowed down. Already in 2021 it resumed and reinforced its activity, and throughout this year 2022 it has consolidated and renewed its objectives of boosting biomedical and health R&D&I in a coordinated manner, guiding the scientific policies of the IIS to the European research framework, internationalizing its work perspective, renewing synergies and advance in the participation of the IIS in the definition of lines of action of the ISCIII.
In line with one of the objectives of the working groups, the accredited IIS are focusing on gender equality policies. All of them are developing their own equality plans and, on the way to greater parity, there are already 10 female scientific directorates in the Institutes, when at the beginning of the Alliance there were only two. As explained Pilar Gayoso, deputy director of the ISCIII and head of the IIS accreditation and monitoring area, "in 2023 the Alliance will continue advancing in the achievement of its objectives, aimed at strengthening the scientific capacities that Spain has in biomedicine and health sciences, through cooperation between institutions, to consolidate an international leadership position of contributions to scientific knowledge that causes improvement in the health and quality of life of people, and contributes to a fairer society based on participation and knowledge ".