André Oliveira holds an MSc in Geographic Information Systems and Science (C&SIG) by the Institute of Statistics and Information Management of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ISEGI-NOVA) and a graduation in Geography and Regional Planning by the Faculty of Letters of the Universidade de Lisboa (FLUL-UL).
A PhD student since 2010 at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT-NOVA) within the International Health PhD Program / Health and Development Policies Specialty, his PhD research focuses on evaluating the spatial influence of socioeconomic determinants in the morbidity and mortality associated to mental and cardiovascular diseases.
He has experience on Oracle databases, and is currently Invited Professor at ISEGI-NOVA, where he teaches a course on Spatial Databases at the MSc program in Geographic Information Systems and Science. He has also lectured several courses on Database Systems at the Graduation in Information Management.
Cooperates with the Portuguese General Directorate of Health (DGS) since 2006 in the management and development of the Public Health Emergencies Support System (SSESP), an epidemiological surveillance system that brings together relational databases, geographic information systems and web technology in a multiplatform environment, with the aim of monitoring the daily demand for hospital and health center emergency consultations in Portugal.
As a member of the Remote Sensing Unit at the Portuguese Geographic Institute until 2005, he participated in several European research projects, such as BACCHUS - Methodological Approach for Vineyard Inventory and Management e CORINE LAND COVER 2000.

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