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.
For more than 30 years, he has been giving consultations to children, adolescents and parents, closely following the changes in Portuguese families. He directed the Paediatrics Service at the Lisbon North Hospital Centre between 1972 and 1980 and helped to set up the first Child Development Unit in the country, at Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon.
He was a professor of Paediatrics and Public Health at the Nova School of Medical Sciences in Lisbon, and a guest lecturer in the United Kingdom and Spain. He chaired the Social and Community Paediatrics section of the Portuguese Society of Paediatrics and the European Society for Social Paediatrics.
He founded and chaired the Association for the Promotion of Child Safety (APSI). He was a member of the National Committees on Women's and Children's Health, Children's Rights and Good Practices in Homes and ran the National Health Observatory.
In addition to being a member of the Academy of Arts and Literature, he has written dozens of books, such as «Children and Families in a Changing Portugal» and «Hurried Parents, Stressed Children», and bestsellers like «The Great Book on Babies».
Considered one of the leading national experts in Public Health, he has headed the Directorate-General of Health for the last 12 years. He has been the new president of the Portuguese Red Cross since last October.
At the beginning of his 44-year career in the civil service, he was a healthcare representative in the Alentejo. He spent 11 years working for the World Health Organisation (WHO) and was a consultant in missions in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. He was head of the Health Services Development project in Guinea-Bissau and coordinator of the WHO World AIDS programme in Southern Africa.
Returning to his national career, he was approved as Head of the Public Health Service, and in 2001 appointed Deputy Director-General of Health. In 2005, he became the Head of the Directorate-General of Health, which he left in 2017 when he reached the age limit. He represented Portugal on the Permanent Committee of WHO Europe between 2014 and 2017.
He is a member of the Advisory Board at the Institute of Tropical Scientific Research and the Advisory Board of the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and is also linked to the Portuguese Virology Society and several associations in the healthcare area.
He is a professor at the National School of Public Health and author of several books. He was made Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry in 2006.
He is an economist and member of the Strategic Council of the Academic Clinical Centre of Coimbra and of the Advisory Council at the University of Beira Interior School of Social and Human Sciences. He was a director at the Portuguese Red Cross Hospital, the Portuguese Health Group, the Doutor Ricardo Jorge National Health Institute and the Healthcare area at Accenture Portugal. He was a member of the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos Scientific Council. He has written books and articles in the area of health.
She has been a doctor since 1985. She has devoted herself to palliative care (CP) for over 25 years. She was president of the Portuguese Palliative Care Association. She is director of the CP Unit at Hospital da Luz-Lisboa, a professor at the Lisbon School of Medicine and the Catholic University. She chairs the Palliative Medicine area at the Portuguese Medical Association. She believes that it has been a privilege to work in this area and has already cared for more than 6,000 patients and their families. She was a member of the Portuguese parliament for 10 years.. She has been a Commander of the Order of Merit since 2004.
Sociologist at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. She has devoted herself to the research, teaching and communication of social food practices through research on food poverty, sustainable food consumption and eating habits of families with children. Several of her works alluding to these topics have been published by Portuguese and international publishers.
Clinical and health psychologist. A psychotherapist, she is a full professor at the University of Lisbon School of Human Motricity. Coordinator of «G2 – Supportive Environments» at ISAMB. Member of the Association of Portuguese Psychologists (OPP) and coordinator of the EFPA Board of Promotion & Prevention for the OPP. National Coordinator of the WHO Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study.
Full professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Lisbon School of Medicine and obstetrician and gynaecologist at Santa Maria Hospital. He was the first elected president of the National Council for Ethics in Life Sciences (2009-2015), he is coordinator of three projects on sexual and reproductive health in the European Union (2003-2010) and was elected vice-president of the Bioethics department of the Council of Europe (2018-2019). He has published very widely on bioethics issues.
He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester, USA, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Catholic University of Portugal. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an associate professor at the Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, where he has devoted himself to teaching and research in the areas of public economy, social policies and health economics, seeking to create theories of practical application.
Specialist Doctor of Psychiatry at the Santo António University Hospital Centre, in the Organisational Unit of Magalhães Lemos Hospital in Porto.
She is a professor on the Psychiatry course for the Integrated Master’s degree in Medicine at the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences (University of Porto).
She is a member of the supervisory board of the Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health and is also a member of the northern delegation of the Portuguese Family Therapy Society.
