The Center for Healthcare Operations and Intelligence (NOIS - Núcleo de Operações e Inteligência em Saúde) is a group formed by students, professors and researchers of the Department of Industrial Engineering at PUC-Rio and TECGRAF Institute, researchers from FIOCRUZ, USP and IDOR also make part of the team.

Our main goal is to scale and optimize resources on the healthcare area, by incorporating data science techniques, thus providing evidence for data-driven decision making. We believe that transformation is made on dynamic, collaborative and interdisciplinary environments.

The project "Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination in Brazil Using Mobile Data" is one out of ten, among 440 others worldwide, selected by the Grand Challenges ICODA COVID-19 Data Science, which is Bill & Melinda Gated foundation's edital. To learn more, click here.