Cláudia Conceição

Professor Cláudia Conceição
Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Membro do Conselho de Ética do IHMT/NOVA

Cláudia Conceição is currently Professor at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, elected member of the IHMT’s Council and IHMT’s Ethics Council (former president 2015-17). She as a PhD on International Health, Health policies and development with a thesis on “First referral hospitals in Mozambique” (IHMT-NOVA, 2011).

She cofounded and was member of the fist board of the Portuguese Society of Travel Medicine (2015-2017). She was Professor of Community Health at School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, 2011-2013, External Examiner of the Master in Public health of the University of Warwick, Medical Scholl, UK, 2011/12 and 2012/13 and lecture in the Group of Disciplines of Health Policy and Administration, National School of Public Health, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2004 -2010.

She worked as World Health Organization temporary adviser at the GAVI – Health Systems Strengthening pre-review team (WHO, Geneva, March 2007; October 2007; April 2008; September 2008; May 2009, April 2012, October 2012, February 2013). She was member of the team, from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, that was Mozambique Ministry of Health adviser for the Human Resources Development Plan 2008-2015 (August 2007-June 2008). She was researcher at Associação para o Desenvolvimento e Cooperação Garcia de Orta (1998 -2012) and at the Portuguese Observatory on Health Systems (2001-2006), and collaborated in the GP’s Sentinel Network at the Ministry of Health (1998-2001)

Cláudia Conceição is a medical doctor, specialist on Internal Medicine and worked in several public hospitals (1990-1998). She was volunteer of “Assistência Médica Internacional”, a Portuguese NGO, in a h ORCID ID: (publications).