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Pulmonologist and intensivist. He is Coordinator of the Order of Physicians' crisis office for Covid-19.

Last updated: May 2020

Science journalist for radio, television and the press. Trained at Columbia University in New York, NOVA and the Haute École ICHEC in Brussels, he was also Communications Coordinator at ISCTE-IUL. He has received awards from the Association for the Promotion and Development of the Information Society and the online magazine «Ciência Hoje».

Last updated: November 2020

Journalist for the Público.

Last updated: September 2020

Reporter for the Público newspaper since its foundation. He was a correspondent in New York and editor of Pública magazine. For more than 20 years he has been reporting all over the world, in crisis zones, or wherever there is news or a good story. He has covered conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Algeria, Angola, Kashmir, Sudan, Libya and many others, and has won several awards (Gazeta, AMI, ACIDI, Portuguese Press Club, FLAD, Lettre Ulysses, Lorenzo Natali, etc.). He is a professor of journalism at the School of Communication and Media Studies in Lisbon and he wrote the biography of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and four other books. He currently has a blog on reports and gallivanting entitled «Reporter on the Loose».

Last updated: September 2020

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

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