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Professor and researcher at the University of Lisbon School of Human Motricity, where he coordinates a research group that studies health behaviour and its determinants.
He was president of the «International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity» and director of the National Programme for the Promotion of Physical Activity (DGS).
He has a Master’s degree in Exercise and Health and a PhD in Nutrition Sciences. He has been studying associations and mechanisms of change in behaviours such as diet and physical activity after psychedelic experiences since 2020. He was the research director at the «Synthesis» Institute in the Netherlands and is the founder of the website for the dissemination of science, medicine and psychedelic culture: www.safejourney.pt.

Professor at the University of Lisbon School of Human Motricity. His favourite research area focuses on the promotion of physical activity and its relationship with health.
He has written several books, book chapters and articles.
He has three PhDs – Education Sciences, Sports Sciences and Health Sciences – and a post-doctorate degree in International Health. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education and a Master's degree in Physical Education and Public Health and he was a physical education teacher for eight years.

Last updated: May 2024

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

Professor at the University of Lisbon School of Human Motricity.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education, a Master’s degree in Sport Psychology and a PhD in Motor Sciences. She was a Physical Education teacher for 15 years. She has several national and international publications in the areas of motor development, motor skills, perception and action, independence of mobility, the importance of play, risk and child safety.

Last updated: May 2024

A journalist, she started working as a freelancer for a United Nations news agency, where she covered HIV/AIDS issues in Africa.
She has been working with several Portuguese media for over a decade, including Notícias Magazine (DN/JN), the Observador and Visão Saúde, where she writes mainly about health, mental health and behaviour

Last updated: April 2024

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.

Last updated: April 2024

Rapper, lyricist and columnist, with a degree in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL.
Her discography includes three albums under her own name: «Bad Temper »(2007), «Medusa» (2015) and «Mother-of-Pearl» (2020). She is also the author of two mixtapes, a remix album and two children's books with accompanying music, as well as various other projects.
In 2022, she released her first book «Aquarius», a collection of chronicles, poems and lyrics.
She was a columnist for «Visão» magazine and D«iário de Notícias» and currently writes for the newspaper «Público».

She was a Público journalist for about 20 years. She wrote the novel «Terrinhas», which received the Agustina Bessa-Luís Revelation Award in 2021. She has written three non-fiction books, which are on the National Reading Plan: «Crazy things», «Your Father’s Name is not Sergeant» and «Daddy, Were You Afraid?»
She was among the finalists of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Journalism Prize twice (2015 and 2016). She received the King of Spain International Prize for Journalism in 2015, the Gazeta Multimedia Prize (2014), the AMI-Journalism Award against Indifference (2015) and the Orlando Gonçalves Literary Prize (2016).

Last updated: January 2024

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