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João Taborda da Gama
Lawyer and university lecturer in tax law and controlled substances law.
He is a Founding Partner of Gama Glória LLP, Lisbon, Senior Consultant at Albright Stonebridge Group/Denton Global Advisors (Washington DC) and lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Portugal.
Additionally, he advises international companies, governments and patient groups on the regulation, use, production and trade of controlled substances for medical, religious, spiritual and recreational purposes.
He also offers consultancy to NGOs advocating harm reduction and responsible adult use of cannabis, psychedelics and entheogenic plants.
A regular speaker on narcotics law and drug policy worldwide, he has published «The Regulation of Medical Cannabis in Portugal» (Brazil, 2019), «Regulate and Protect: Towards A New Drug Policy» (Lisbon, 2022) and «Psychedelic Law» (2023).

Last updated: July  2024
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Uma Naidoo
Harvard Nutritional Psychiatrist, professional chef and nutritional biologist.
She is the founder and director of the first and only hospital-based nutritional and metabolic psychiatry service in the US, based at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
She is a faculty member of Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Department of Nutrition and also an instructor at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts.
She is the author of the bestseller «This Is Your Brain on Food», published in 22 countries and 18 languages. She is a regular contributor to various publications, including CNBC, Harvard Health, mindbodygreen and Psychology Today.

Last updated: July 2024
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Pedro Teixeira
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.
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Adilson Marques
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
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Fátima Baptista
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
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Rita Cordovil
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
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Sofia Teixeira
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
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Sofia Gomes
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
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Capicua
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».