The Professional Master's in Family Health Care (Mestrado Profissional em Saúde da Família - PROFSAUDE) is a stricto sensu graduate program introduced to CAPES) by the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva - ABRASCO) and accredited in 2016. The master's degree is offered by a national network consisting of 22 Public Institutions of Higher Education led by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ). The program is supported by the Open University System (Sistema Universidade Aberta - UNA) from the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS). This project is coordinated and financed by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education. Its lines of research are: 1) Access and Quality in the Primary Health Care; 2) Life Cycles and Vulnerable Groups' Care; 3) Education and Health: Education's Contemporary Trends, Competences, and Strategies; 4) Services' Management and Evaluation in Family Health Care Strategies/Primary Care; 5) Information and Health; 6) Clinical Research: Primary Care's Concern; and 7) Health Surveillance.
