ABSTRACT
Continuing initiatives to make the Committee of Social and Human Sciences of the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (Abrasco) more inclusive and plural, such as the cycle of symposia during the administration 2014-2016, the management experience in this Committee during the period 2017-2019 will be presented with the purpose of highlighting its priorities, achievements, and challenges. A documental analysis of the master plans and records of activities promoted by this Committee at scientific events was conducted, resulting in the division of the text in three parts: a comparative analysis of its current Master Plan; a list of the activities promoted by this Committee at scientific events; a discussion on the evaluation of scientific production. The renewal of the institutions’ representatives that are part of the Committee increased the number of memberships as well as a bigger regional diversity, which made this Committee the only of the three committees in the Association with institutional representation in all regions of the country. This expansion occurred in the middle of a very singular context in the national scientific policy, since the prevailing evaluation criteria of scientific production, usually quantitative, were being questioned.
KEYWORDS
Public health; Health research policy; Humanities; Social sciences