pixel Migration and Health | Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Migration and Health

Sónia Dias

COORDINATOR 

 

PARTICIPANTS

Faculdade de Ciências Médicas/Nova Medical School (NMS)
Nova School of Business & Economics (Nova SBE)
Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT NOVA)
Law School (FD)
School of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH)
National School of Publlic Health (ENSP)
Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT)

 

MISSION

NOVA Migration and Health group promotes collaborative research and knowledge to address the challenges of human mobility and migratory flows to health status, disease prevalence and healthcare systems. It aims to support the development of evidence-based health policy and services.

In a multidisciplinary and integrated way, the NOVA Migration and Health group combines different members’ background, expertise and vast experience of research in migration and health. Ultimately, this group will contribute to improve migrants’ health outcomes, effective health policies, better health legislation and responsive health services, through facilitating cooperation, stimulating cutting-edge research, promoting seminars and involving relevant stakeholders.

 

RESEARCHERS

Sónias Dias
GHTM/ CHRC | ENSP
Health status; sexual health; HIV infection; access and utilization of health services; participatory health research.
Ambra Formenti
CRIA-FCSH/NOVA | FCSH
Cooperation agreements on health; evacuated patients from Guinea-Bissau; mobility for health reasons.
Ana Abecasis
Ana Gama
Centro de Investigação da ENSP | ENSP
Bruno Heleno
CEDOC / CHRC | NMS|FCM
Primary healthcare, systematic reviews, randomized clinical trials.
Cátia Batista 
NOVAFRICA | Nova SBE
Immigrant integration policies; remittances and transfer of norms to countries of origin; experimental evaluation of policies.
Francisco Pereira Coutinho
CEDIS | FDUNL
Access to public healthcare for immigrants and refugees; Foreigners and the threat to the public health; Immigration and Asylum in case of trafficking of human beings, domestic violence, sexual crimes and Female Genital Cutting.
Joana Alves
CISP | ENSP
Socioeconomic inequalities; public health; economic evaluation of health interventions; health inequities; risk behaviours.
José Carlos Laranjo Marques
CICS.NOVA | FCSH
International migrations, highly skilled migration, policies of migration, integration of migrants.
Maria João Romão
Onome Akpogheneta

Paulo Paixão
CEDOC | NMS|FCM
Infection; prevention; diagnosis.
Pedro Pita Barros
Nova Healthcare Initiative | Nova SBE
Health status. Access to health care. Health policies.
Pedro Viana Baptista
UCIBIO | FCT
Screening and diagnostics platforms.
João Cordeiro
ENSP