Health

Graduated in Communication and Journalism, with a postgraduate degree in Political Advising and Media. On her way to a master's degree in Political Science at ISCTE.
She is FFMS' Content and Portal Manager.

Last updated: may 2026

Margarida Cardoso is a journalist and began working for the «Público» newspaper in 2016. In 2019, she moved to the self-managed newsroom of the «Fumaça» podcast.
She coordinated the books "Green Years, Portraits of Youth" and "And After the Revolution, Five Decades of Democracy", published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.
She has a postgraduate degree in Humanitarian Action, she trained as a victim support assistant, and she is now a student of Psychology.

Last updated: January 2026

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

She has a Master's degree in Health Education from the Schools of Medicine (FMUP) and Psychology and Education Sciences (U.Porto), and an FCT scholarship on the PhD programme in Public Health at FMUP. She is a researcher at the UD&I in Epidemiology/ITR Lab-Institute of Public Health, U.Porto, in the areas of food education, healthy and sustainable eating patterns and validation of health assessment tools.

Last updated: July 2023

She has a PhD in Social Psychology (ISCTE-IUL), she is an Assistant Researcher at HEI-Lab: Digital Human-Environment Interaction Labs and an Invited Assistant Professor at the School of Psychology and Life Sciences at Lusófona University. She studies Behavioural Economics and Human-Computer Interaction applied to the design of social interventions in Health in international projects. Works with the Food Behaviour Lab.

Last updated: July 2023

With a PhD in Social Psychology (ISCTE-IUL), she is an Assistant Researcher at the Food Behaviour Lab and an Invited Assistant Professor at the CATÓLICA-LISBON School of Business & Economics-Catholic University of Portugal. She studies emotions, decision-making, heuristics and interpersonal relationships in the context of national and international projects on self-regulation and social regulation of eating behaviour.

Last updated: July 2023

With a PhD in Consumer Behaviour (Wageningen University, Netherlands), she is a Principal Investigator and Visiting Assistant Professor at CATÓLICA-LISBON School of Business & Economics-Catholic University of Portugal, where she leads the Food Behaviour Lab. She coordinates national and international projects on self-regulation and social regulation of eating behaviour and acceptance of new products.

Last updated: July 2023

She holds a PhD in Human Nutrition and is an Associate Professor at the School of Nutrition and Food Sciences (U.Porto), where she coordinates the Master's Degree in Community Nutrition and Public Health. She is a researcher at the UD&I in Epidemiology/ITR Lab-Institute of Public Health, U.Porto, where she leads the working group on population dietary habits and patterns, their determinants and evaluation methodologies.

Last updated: July 2023

PhD in Chemical and Biological Science and Engineering (University of Minho) and Assistant Professor at the School of Nutrition and Food Sciences-U.Porto. He is a researcher at the UD&I in Epidemiology/ITR Lab-Institute of Public Health, U.Porto, where he leads the working group on food, consumption and sustainability, and devotes himself to assessing the risks and benefits linked to food consumption.

Last updated: July 2023

She holds a PhD in Human Biology and is an Associate Professor in Public Health at the School of Medicine (U.Porto), where she coordinates the PhD programme in this area. She is a researcher at the UD&I in Epidemiology/ITR Lab-Instituto de Saúde Pública, U.Porto, where she leads the Life Course Research and Healthy Ageing thematic line and the working group on nutrition and cardiometabolic health. She coordinates the IAN-AF Consortium.

Last updated: July 2023