Paediatrician, professor of Paediatrics at the Lisbon School of Medicine and advisor to the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences. She was president of Infarmed, director of the Paediatrics Department at Hospital de Santa Maria, clinical director at the Lisbon North University Hospital Centre, High Commissioner for Health, president of the National Commission for Maternal Health, Children and Adolescents, president of the College of Paediatrics at the Portuguese Medical Association and part of the Birth Commission and the Working Group for the Child Agenda. She has trained in Neonatology and Management of Health Institutions.
Professor of Mathematics at the University of Coimbra. He was Secretary of State for Higher Education between 2011 and 2013, President of the Mathematics Centre at the University of Coimbra and a member of the board of the International Linear Algebra Society. He is an associate editor for three international mathematical research journals. He has written several articles and books on mathematical research, the history of mathematics and educational policies in Portugal.
Psychiatrist for children and teenagers. He has a Bachelor’s degree from the Nova School of Medical Sciences. He did his general internship at São Francisco Xavier Hospital and the specialist internship in the Department of Child Psychiatry of Dona Estefania Hospital in Lisbon. He currently has a private practice and also does clinical work at GPS – Specialised Home for Children and Young People –and at ART – Therapeutic Response Association – in Castro Verde.
Member of the Board and coordinator of the research line «Prospective and Strategic Planning» at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI), Nova University Lisbon. She is a professor in the department of Political Studies at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, visiting lecturer at Nova Information Management School and responsible for the seminar Demography, Prospective and Planning on the Master’s degree in Statistics for Health at IHMT, all at Nova University Lisbon.
She has a PhD in Philosophy, with aggregation in Philosophy, specialising in Ethics, and in Nursing. She was vice-president of the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences in the fifth mandate (2015-2020). She is a coordinating teacher and runs the nursing department at the Setúbal Polytechnic School of Health. She is on the Ethics Committee for Health at the Setúbal Hospital Centre and on the Ethics Council at the University of Minho.
She has been a doctor since 1985. She has devoted herself to palliative care (CP) for over 25 years. She was president of the Portuguese Palliative Care Association. She is director of the CP Unit at Hospital da Luz-Lisboa, a professor at the Lisbon School of Medicine and the Catholic University. She chairs the Palliative Medicine area at the Portuguese Medical Association. She believes that it has been a privilege to work in this area and has already cared for more than 6,000 patients and their families. She was a member of the Portuguese parliament for 10 years.. She has been a Commander of the Order of Merit since 2004.
Clinical and health psychologist. A psychotherapist, she is a full professor at the University of Lisbon School of Human Motricity. Coordinator of «G2 – Supportive Environments» at ISAMB. Member of the Association of Portuguese Psychologists (OPP) and coordinator of the EFPA Board of Promotion & Prevention for the OPP. National Coordinator of the WHO Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study.
Full professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Lisbon School of Medicine and obstetrician and gynaecologist at Santa Maria Hospital. He was the first elected president of the National Council for Ethics in Life Sciences (2009-2015), he is coordinator of three projects on sexual and reproductive health in the European Union (2003-2010) and was elected vice-president of the Bioethics department of the Council of Europe (2018-2019). He has published very widely on bioethics issues.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Media Studies and a Master’s degree in Human Ecology and Contemporary Social Problems, she worked as a producer of content for radio and television, directed documentaries and wrote fiction scripts. She is a founding member and vice-president of the Circular Economy Portugal association – CEP.
He has a PhD in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), an institution where he is a member of the Centre for Economics of Education and where he got his Bachelor's degree and MPhil in Economics. His research focuses on the subjects of Economics of Education and Human Capital, such as: measures of added value for teachers, differentials between internal and external scores, reasons behind the progression in PISA tests and factors of success in higher education.
His work uses comprehensive databases of both the labour market and the Portuguese education system. He was also involved in the impact assessment for different educational projects developed in Portugal. He was a visiting student in the economics department at the University College of London (UCL). He is a visiting assistant at Nova SBE for several Bachelor’s degree and Master's degree courses.
