ABSTRACT
This study that aims to analyze the process of re-foundation of the Brazilian Center for Health Studies (Cebes) and its political position in the period 2005-2014. The sources are 40 editorials from the periodic 'Saúde em Debate' and 11 position papers of the entity. The results describe the crisis in Cebes and the process of refounding the entity's activities in defense of the Brazilian Health Reform, the universal right to health, the consolidation of the Unified Health System, and the radicalization of democracy. We conclude that Cebes it is a collective political subject whose position is opposed to the mercantilist and rationalizing projects that competed in the directionality of the health policy implemented by the federal government in that period.
KEYWORDS:
Health policy; Health care reform; Unified Health System