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She is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Brigham Young University in the USA and an adjunct professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. Her research focuses on social connections and their long-term effects on health, biological mechanisms and working on effective strategies to promote social connections. Her research has been instrumental in demonstrating that social isolation and loneliness are risk factors for early mortality.
She is the Director of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the US Coalition to End Social Isolation and Loneliness and a scientific advisor to multisectoral organisations on this issue.

Last updated: December 2021

He got his PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam/Tinbergen Institute in 2007. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Minho (U Minho) and Director of the PhD programme in Economics at the same institution. He is also a researcher at NIPE (UMinho), CIPES (UAveiro and UPorto) and the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA), Germany, and assists the Bank of Portugal on a permanent basis. His research focuses mainly on Labour and Education Economics and Applied Econometrics. He has written several academic papers, books and book chapters, and has been published in prestigious journals such as Econometrica, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Regional Studies and Studies in Higher Education. His work has been cited, among others, in prestigious specialist journals such as Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Industrial and Labour Relations Review and Labour Economics. He maintains research collaborations in several countries, leading and integrating research teams that develop funded projects. He has authored policy-oriented reports on minimum wages, education and employment applicable to the Portuguese labour market. He also has extensive experience in consultancy for both private and public institutions.

She is a journalist for the prestigious Science magazine, and for 17 years was a member of the editorial team of Nature magazine.
She was a member of the think tank «New America» and has collaborated with the main US newspapers and magazines.
She has a degree in human biology from Standford University and a degree in medicine from Oxford University. She has a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
She has published several non-fiction works, including «The Vaccine Race», a Book Prize nominee, and the Washinton Post’s Notable Nonfiction Book of 2017. It was also named as one of the best science books of 2017 by The Guardian.

She is Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine, where she has worked as Lead Researcher since 2005, the same year she started teaching at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lisbon.
Although her research addresses various fields, her primary focus is malaria and the mechanisms that cause the infection to develop into a deadly disease.
With a PhD in Molecular Parasitology from University College London in the UK and a Master's in Immunology from the University of Porto, she has worked in scientific research centres such as the Gulbenkian Institute of Sciences and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the USA.
With over 100 publications and four patents, she has received dozens of national and international awards – including the Pessoa Prize (2013) and the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Prize (2018).

Last updated: May 2023

She is a full professor in the Department of Social Psychology and the Psychology of Organisations at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, where she has taught since 2004. She does her research work at the Research and Social Intervention Centre at the same university.
She has coordinated several research projects throughout her career, having specialised in the application of Social Psychology to health and environmental issues. One of the topics that she looked into more closely is the question of risk perception, from the social factors that affect it to its consequences for public participation in decision-making processes.
Between 2006 and 2010, she chaired the Portuguese Association of Psychology. She was a member of the Scientific Council of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Foundation for Science and Technology.
She has written several books, such as «Social Psychology of Health, Volumes 1 and 2» (Edições Sílabo) and the essay «Ourselves and Others: The Power of Social Ties», published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

He holds a PhD, a Master's Degree and Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from the University of Coimbra. Between 1998 and 2015, he was Lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto.
Since 2015, he has been Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. He is also Permanent Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, where he has dedicated himself to researching international migration.
He also collaborates with various national and international agencies and institutions, such as the International Organisation for Migration, the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the European Migration Network.
He has published over 100 articles and books on emigration and immigration in Portugal and Europe. In his most recent work, «Common Home» (2019), Pedro Góis notes that «migration flows to Portugal produce positive effects, mitigating, in the short term, the consequences of population ageing and decline» yet requiring long-term demographic planning, which has yet to be done.

Last update: February 2020

Founder and CEO of the communications company Empower Sports and presenter on the Eleven Sports channel. He began his career at RTP, later working for CNN (in the US and later as a correspondent in London), Sport TV and UEFA. He has also worked with FIFA and the Portuguese Football Federation.

Last updated: January 2022

José Caldas de Almeida directed the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Oeste and is a retired professor of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCM-UNL), which he directed from 2007 to 2013.
He presides over the Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health, which results from collaboration between FCM-UNL and the World Health Organization (WHO), and generates innovative knowledge in the area of ​​mental health and provides technical collaboration to governments and non-governmental organizations.
Between 2000 and 2006, he coordinated the WHO Mental Health Program for the Americas and was a member of the scientific committee for 14 World Health Organization publications.
He was president of the National Mental Health Council and, from 2008 to 2011, he was appointed National Mental Health Coordinator, having been responsible for implementing the National Mental Health Plan until 2011. He led the Joint Action for Mental Health and Wellbeing in the European Union from 2013 to 2016.

Last updated: November 2020

Assistant professor in the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism at the University of Aveiro and researcher at CIPES (Higher Education Policy Research Centre). He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Porto and a PhD in Business Sciences from Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He works with GOVCOPP – Research Unit in Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies at the University of Aveiro and is an affiliate of the Global Labour Organisation. His research focuses on Labour Economics, Education and Higher Education.

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.