• PaulaAna Patrícia deAPEscola Superior de Ciências da Saúde, Fundação de Ensino e Pesquisa em Ciências da Saúde, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil., Silvana Pereira Giozza, Michelle Zanon Pereira, Patrícia Souza Boaventura, SantosLeonor Maria PachecoLM, Camile Giaretta Sachetti, César Omar Carranza Tamayo, Clarissa Campos Guaragna Kowalski, Flavia Tavares Silva Elias, Suzanne Jacob Serruya, and Reinaldo Guimarães.
• Escola Superior de Ciências da Saúde, Fundação de Ensino e Pesquisa em Ciências da Saúde, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil.
• Sao Paulo Med J. 2012 Jan 1; 130 (3): 179186179-86.

Context And ObjectiveScientific and technological development is crucial for advancing the Brazilian health system and for promoting quality of life. The way in which the Brazilian Ministry of Health has supported clinical research to provide autonomy, self-sufficiency, competitiveness and innovation for the healthcare industrial production complex, in accordance with the National Policy on Science, Technology and Innovation in Healthcare, was analyzed.Design And SettingDescriptive investigation, based on secondary data, conducted at the Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Health.MethodsThe Ministry of Health's research management database, PesquisaSaúde, was analyzed from 2002 to 2009, using the key word "clinical research" in the fields "primary sub-agenda" or "secondary sub-agenda". The 368 projects retrieved were sorted into six categories: basic biomedical research, preclinical studies, expanded clinical research, clinical trials, infrastructure support and health technology assessment. From a structured review on "clinical research funding", results from selected countries are presented and discussed.ResultsThe amount invested was R$ 140 million. The largest number of projects supported "basic biomedical research", while the highest amounts invested were in "clinical trials" and "infrastructure support". The southeastern region had the greatest proportion of projects and financial resources. In some respects, Brazil is ahead of other BRICS countries (Russia, India, China and South Africa), especially with regard to establishing a National Clinical Research Network.ConclusionThe Ministry of Health ensured investments to encourage clinical research in Brazil and contributed towards promoting cohesion between investigators, health policies and the healthcare industrial production complex.

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