Politics

Doctor and public health consultant.
Secretary-general of the National Alcohol and Health Forum (FNAS).
Postgraduate in Labour Medicine and Health Administration.

Last updated: january 2025

Assistant professor of Nutrition and Health at the School of Biotechnology of the Portuguese Catholic University and visiting assistant professor at the University of Maia, he has a PhD in Food Consumption and Nutrition Sciences from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto.
He is the volleyball nutritionist at Leixões Sport Club and is in private practice at the Velásquez Medical Centre and the Guimarães Private Clinic, where he accompanies various athletes.
Between 2009 and 2017, he was the nutritionist of Futebol Clube do Porto.

Last updated: january 2025

Doctor specialised in Public Health, she is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto.
She coordinates the Policy and Health Laboratory of the Associate Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR).
She has been studying social determinants and socio-economic inequalities in health, as well as social and health policies, combining quantitative and qualitative methods.
She was a researcher on the SILNE-R project (Horizon 2020), carrying out economic evaluation of tobacco control policies, an expert on the National Health Council and a consultant for the WHO European Office for Investment for Health and Development, in the area of health equity.

Last updated: January 2025

Neurologist at the Cerebrovascular Diseases Unit of the Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Central, assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and researcher at the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Lisbon.
A member of the editorial board of the ‘European Stroke Journal’ and the ‘International Journal of Stroke’, she has authored or co-authored more than 80 articles and book chapters. Her main interests are cerebral venous thrombosis, implementation of stroke care, stroke in young people and pregnant women.

Last updated: january 2025

Full Professor of Epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto and President of the Institute of Public Health of the same institution. He coordinates the Epidemiology Research Unit and the Associated Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR).
He is also president of theAssociation of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER).
He has carried out research in areas such as clinical and perinatal epidemiology, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases and cancer, which has resulted in hundreds of international scientific publications.

Last update: January 2025

Producer of television programmes, films, editorial content for the press and radio programmes. Amongst the content produced are: «Biosfera», «Liga dos Últimos», «A Ruína do BES», «Radar de Negócios» and, for FFMS, «A Revolução da Energia Limpa», «Portugal, uma casa para todos» and four episodes of the series «Cinco Décadas de Democracia».

Last update: january 2025

Actress. She won the award for Best Secondary Actress at the Sophia Awards, in 2024, for her role in the film ‘Mal Viver’, directed by João Canijo.
She appeared in the film ‘Ramiro’, by Manuel Mozos, in ‘Pôr do Sol: O Mistério do Colar de São Cajó’, by Manuel Pureza, and in several TVI, SIC and RTP1 soap operas.

Last update: january 2025

Director of Civitta Portugal (formerly Gestluz Consultores). He is president of Invicta Angels - the Northern Association of Early-Stage Investors - of which he was a founder. He is also a business strategy and management consultant.
He was executive director of Instituição Financeira de Desenvolvimento (now BPF) between 2015 and 2017, and co-founded the National Federation of Business Angels Associations in 2007.
He has a degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of Porto and a master's degree in Design for Sustainability from Cranfield University, UK, and a postgraduate qualification in Political Journalism from the Catholic University.

Last updated: january 2025

Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto's School of Education, in the area of Pedagogical Supervision, and coordinator of the master's programme in Pre-School Education and Primary School Teaching.
She was honoured with the ‘Global Teacher Prize Portugal 2020’ (3rd edition), an award internationally considered to be the ‘nobel of education’. She was in the TOP 50 of the Global Teacher Prize worldwide in 2021.
Since October 2016, she has been the mentor and national coordinator of COOPERA, a pedagogical intervention and innovation project.
She has a PhD in Education and Human Development from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), a degree in Education Sciences from FPCEUP (Porto) and a bachelor's degree in Primary School Teachers (1st Cycle) from ISEC (Lisbon). She is currently doing a post-doctorate in Education Sciences, specialising in Pedagogical Practice and Research and Didactics, at UTAD (Vila Real).

Last updated: january 2025

Full Professor at the Portuguese Catholic University and a researcher at the Research Centre for Human Development (CEDH).
He is a (co-opted) member of the National Educational Board.
He was secretary of State for Elementary and Secondary Education in the XII Constitutional Government in 1992/93 and member of the Steering Committee of CERI - Centre for Studies and Research on Innovation in Education, of the OECD.
He was the first Director of the Faculty of Education and Psychology at UCP and Director of the School of Arts.
He is the editor of the Portuguese Journal for Educational Research. He is President of the Board of Directors of the Manuel Leão Foundation. He received his doctorate in Education Sciences from the University of Lisbon in 1999.

Last update: january 2025