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Imagem de Teresa Leão, médica especialista em Saúde Pública. © ISPUP
Teresa Leão
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Doctor specialised in Public Health, she is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto.
She coordinates the Policy and Health Laboratory of the Associate Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR).
She has been studying social determinants and socio-economic inequalities in health, as well as social and health policies, combining quantitative and qualitative methods.
She was a researcher on the SILNE-R project (Horizon 2020), carrying out economic evaluation of tobacco control policies, an expert on the National Health Council and a consultant for the WHO European Office for Investment for Health and Development, in the area of health equity.

Last updated: January 2025
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