Fig 1.
Fiocruz technical-scientific units participating in the study.
*Fiocruz Rio de Janeiro has 12 different technical-scientific units. Colors indicate geographical regions of Brazil: North (green); Northeast (red); Midwest (yellow); Southeast (orange); South (blue). Map of Brazil obtained from https://mapsvg.com/maps/brazil, used under a CC BY 4.0 license, and modified from the original to include indications of Fiocruz units and geographical regions.
Fig 2.
Analysis model.
Fig 3.
Sampling flowchart.
Table 1.
Respondents’ role in clinical research and years of experience at Fiocruz.
Table 2.
Benefits and constraints of participating in a research network.
Fig 4.
Word cloud of clinical research topics for discussion at Fiocruz.
Table 3.
Challenges in conducting research under GCP standards within Fiocruz.
Fig 5.
Fiocruz internal communication network in clinical research.
Circles (nodes) represent professionals, and their links represent direct communications between respondents and their primary contacts. The size of a node is proportional to its indegree centrality and node colors represent their technical-scientific units. P01 to P05 are the most central professionals in the network. Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases (INI); Fernandes Figueira National Institute for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent Health (IFF); Vice-Presidency (VP); Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC); National School of Public Health (ENSP); Scientific Computing Program (PROCC); National Institute for Quality Control in Health (INCQS); Covid-19 Diagnostic Support Unit (UNADIG); Institute of Immunobiological Technology (Bio-Manguinhos); Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos); Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS); Institute of Scientific and Technological Communication and Information in Health (ICICT); Fiocruz Minas Gerais (Fiocruz MG); Fiocruz Mato Grosso do Sul (Fiocruz MS); Fiocruz Paraná (Fiocruz PR); Fiocruz Bahia (Fiocruz BA); Fiocruz Ceará (Fiocruz CE); Fiocruz Pernambuco (Fiocruz PE); Fiocruz Distrito Federal (Fiocruz DF); Fiocruz Amazonas (Fiocruz AM).