International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Science (IJAERS) Peer-Reviewed Journal ISSN: 2349-6495(P) | 2456-1908(O) Vol-9, Issue-9; Sep, 2022 Journal Home Page Available: https://ijaers.com/ Article DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijaers.99.35 www.ijaers.com Page | 338 People's Health Surveillance in the Construction of Coexistence with the Semi-Arid in Times of Pandemic COVID-19 Gislei Siqueira Knierim 1 , Gáudia Maria Costa Leite Pereira 2 , Luciano Pires de Andrade 3 , Ana Maria Dubeux Gervais 4 1 Master's degree in Public Health, doctoral candidate in the Postgraduate Programme of Agroecology and Territorial Development at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco. 2 Master's degree in Rural Extension, PhD candidate in Agroecology and Territorial Development, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco. 3 PhD in Ethnobiology and Nature Conservation and Professor at the Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco and Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal do Agreste de Pernambuco. 4 PhD in Sociology. Co-Counselor, Collaborating Professor of the Postgraduate Programme of Agroecology and Territorial Development. Federal Rural University of Pernambuco. Received: 22 Aug 2022, Received in revised form: 13 Sep 2022, Accepted: 19 Sep 2022, Available online: 24 Sep 2022 ©2022 The Author(s). Published by AI Publication. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Keywords— Training-action, Health practices, Covid-19, Semi-arid. Abstract— The training-action process called "The Cycle of Meetings: Healthy and Sustainable Territories in the Brazilian Semi-Arid - Popular Health Surveillance in Times of Pandemic", was characterized as a training space organized by the Articulation of the Brazilian Semi-Arid (ASA) and the Health Environment Work Program (PSAT) of Fiocruz - Brasília in the period from August to September 2020 where it sought to encourage dialogue, the construction of knowledge, the strengthening of community relations with the Unified Health System (SUS) and build strategies to confront the Covid-19 health crisis in the territories of the Semi-Arid. The Cycles were organized in five virtual meetings and territorial actions between meetings. They were oriented towards the construction of new models of understanding and action in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, in order to discuss how the adoption of theoretical and practical approaches can enable the action of the organizations that make up ASA in the territories to strengthen agroecological transition systems, appropriate technologies for access to water and food security for families in the Sertão. It resulted in the construction of guiding principles for health practices for the resumption of the activities of ASA organizations in the territories in times of pandemics. I. INTRODUCTION Convivência com o semiárido 1 is a regional and sustainable political project adapted to the diversity and 1 The Brazilian semi-arid region, also known as the Sertão, corresponds to approximately 12% of the Brazilian territory, with 1.03 million km², where 1,262 municipalities are located and an average population of 27 million people. It has specific climatic singularities of the Brazilian semi-arid region, which breaks characteristics, with rainfall rates averaging 750mm/year, with irregular and scattered rains. But the Brazilian semi-arid is not only climate, vegetation, soil, sun and water. It is people, music, festivals, art, religion, politics, history. It is a social process. It cannot be understood from just one angle. It brings with it a cultural identity beyond climate and biome (P. C. G. da Silva et al., 2010).