Health

Former governor of the Bank of Portugal. He was managing director of Milleninum BCP (2000-2004), director of Caixa Geral de Depósitos (2004-2006) and vice-president of the EIB (2006-2010).

Pulmonologist and intensivist. He is Coordinator of the Order of Physicians' crisis office for Covid-19.

Last updated: May 2020

Former Full Professor at the National School of Public Health at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is a member of the National Public Health Council and the Advisory Council for the National Health Plan, as well as both the Board of Directors and the General Council of the Foundation for Health – SNS.
He was Director-General of Health between 1997 and 1999 and a doctor and health delegate in Bárue (Mozambique). He has also lived in Copenhagen, where he was Director for Health Policies and Services of the European Region of the World Health Organisation.
He has won countless distinctions, including the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service in 2006 from the Portuguese Ministry of Health and the National Health Award in 2019.

Last updated: April 2024

Journalist for the Público.

Last updated: September 2020

He is a doctor, specialising in Clinical Haematology and Medical Oncology, and Senior Graduate Assistant in Haematology at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology in Lisbon. He is a visiting associate professor at the National School of Public Health. He was Minister of Health in the short-lived 20th Constitutional Government and Deputy Secretary of State of the Minister of Health in the 19th Constitutional Government. He was Deputy Director-General of Health and consultant on health policy issues at the Civil House of the President of Portugal.

Professor at the National School of Public Health, UNL, coordinator of the Health Systems and Policy Monitor of the WHO European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. She has a Bachelor's degree in Nursing from the Francisco Gentil School of Nursing, a Master's degree in Public Health from the National School of Public Health and a PhD in International Health from the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is a consultant at the Portuguese Directorate-General of Health.

Last updated: July 2023

Associate professor with aggregation at the University of Lisbon School of Human Motricity. Her teaching activities are in the context of the evaluation of physical activity and physical fitness in general and the prescription of exercise for elderly people in particular.
Her research is now focused on the study of the musculoskeletal health phenotype – how physical activity/exercise and physical fitness determine: the peak of muscle mass and bone mass during the growth process, sarcopenia, osteopenia, fragility and falls during the ageing process and clinical conditions/treatments with side effects on musculoskeletal health.

Last updated: May 2024

Reporter for the Público newspaper since its foundation. He was a correspondent in New York and editor of Pública magazine. For more than 20 years he has been reporting all over the world, in crisis zones, or wherever there is news or a good story. He has covered conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Algeria, Angola, Kashmir, Sudan, Libya and many others, and has won several awards (Gazeta, AMI, ACIDI, Portuguese Press Club, FLAD, Lettre Ulysses, Lorenzo Natali, etc.). He is a professor of journalism at the School of Communication and Media Studies in Lisbon and he wrote the biography of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and four other books. He currently has a blog on reports and gallivanting entitled «Reporter on the Loose».

Last updated: September 2020

He has a PhD in Biochemistry from Nova University Lisbon (UNL), and has devoted himself to science communication for 27 years. Between 2015 and 2019, he managed Ciência Viva – National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture, whose mission is to promote experimental science education and scientific dissemination. During these four years he also coordinated the GPS – Global Portuguese Scientists – project, a social media network that tells us where Portuguese scientists emigrated to and the type of scientific research they are doing outside Portugal. He wrote books such as «Pseudoscience» and «Portuguese Scientists», both published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. He has created several plays and television programmes on scientific topics. He won the «Young Chemicals» and «Green Ideas» awards in 2010. He was the author of Public Enemy and a science journalist at the Público newspaper, a publication he continues to work with as a columnist. He is co-commissioner of the Science and Education Month for Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: May 2020