Innovation

What is Brújula?

Brújula is a center for research, innovation, and the first health observatory in La Guajira, managing and analyzing health and social determinant information. Its purpose is to guide actions and assess the impact of interventions generated for the benefit of communities.

 Social Innovation Intervention that sees La Guajira as a Living Laboratory

Academic and Scientific Networks

Participation in scientific committees - Analysis and data management.

Capacity Building and Research

Academia-Public Administration-Social and Indigenous Organizations.

Community - Social Appropriation of Knowledge

Humanization of data for maternal, child, childhood, and adolescence indicators.

Intercultural Health: Mitigating Risks of Malnutrition

Cultural approach to center lines.

Health in Communities - Academic Events

New interventions with a focus on development and evaluation of programs for child poverty.

Our Objectives

Manage and analyze information as input for decision-making in health and its determinants.

Promote social appropriation of knowledge and the creation of spaces for collaboration: government, academia, private sector, and community.

Encourage public policies that impact health and its determinants through governance and community participation.

Thematic Areas

  • Research and Extension: Currently, it has 5 research lines: Intercultural Health, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition and Food Security, Epidemiology and Public Health, Development, Poverty, and Public Policies.
  • Consultancy: Design, Execution, and Evaluation of Health Projects and Programs and their Determinants.
  • Social Projection and Community Participation: Through the humanization of data and social appropriation of knowledge for decision-making in health.

Research Lines

Maternal and Child Health

Nutrition and Food Security

Intercultural Health

Development, Poverty,
and Public Policies

Epidemiology
and Public Health

"Health is Politics"

“It is necessary to humanize data: The health sciences, political sciences, and humanities must intertwine to achieve this. This should be done hand in hand with communities. It is necessary to reinvent new indicators to understand and analyze existing public policies with the same rigor as clinical trials are evaluated or conducted.”

Iliana Curiel Arismendy
Creator of Brújula