Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Susana Moreira da Silva Santos
- Date of birth
- 1986/10/14
- Gender
- Female
Citation names
- Santos, Susana
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 5710-BFE0-C4C2
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0613-3181
- AuthenticusID
- R-00K-7FC
- Scopus Author Id
- 57197974153
Email addresses
- susana.m.santos@ispup.up.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- EPIUnit - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto. Rua das Taipas nº 135 , 4050-600, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susana-Santos (Professional)
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/susana-santos-120028255 (Professional)
- https://ispup.up.pt/en/pessoas/susana-santos-3/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Medical and Health Sciences
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Dutch | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2017
Concluded
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Joint doctorate in Public Health (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
Erasmus MC, Netherlands |
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2012
Concluded
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Master in Epidemiology (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
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2009
Concluded
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Bachelor of Nutrition Science (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2022/03 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal |
2019/04 - 2022/02 | Postdoc (Research) | Erasmus MC, Netherlands |
2018/10 - 2019/03 | Postdoc (Research) | Instituto de Salud Global Barcelona, Spain |
2017/11 - 2018/09 | Postdoc (Research) | Erasmus MC, Netherlands |
2014 - 2017 | Researcher (Research) | Erasmus MC, Netherlands |
2010 - 2014 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal |
2009/01 - 2009/06 | Research Trainee (Research) | City University of London, United Kingdom |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2023/09 - Current | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal |
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal |
Positions / Appointments
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2024 - Current | Coordinator of the Research Lab Perinatal Determinants of Health | Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação em Epidemiologia, Portugal |
2024 - Current | Team member of the Guarujá birth cohort (São Paulo, Brazil) | Universidade do Oeste Paulista Faculdade de Medicina, Brazil |
2022 - Current | Executive Coordinator of Generation XXI (G21) birth cohort | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2020 - Current | Advancing Tools for Human Early Lifecourse Exposome Research and Translation (ATHLETE; € 11 998 333,75)
874583
Researcher and Principal Investigator for ISPUP
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European Union |
2023/10/21 - 2023/11/02 | Visiting professor - scholarship in Brazil (2500€)
88887.888687/2023-00
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Brazilian Federal Foundation for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education - CAPES |
2020 - 2023 | Dynamic longitudinal exposome trajectories in cardiovascular and metabolic noncommunicable diseases (LongITools; € 11 997
448,75)
874739
Researcher
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European Union |
2019 - 2023 | A federated FAIR platform enabling large-scale analysis of high-value cohort data connecting Europe and Canada in personalized
health (EUCAN-Connect; € 6 717 953,75)
824989
Researcher
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European Union |
2015 - 2022 | Maternal Obesity and Childhood Outcomes (MOCO-LifeCycle Project; € 10 414 945,84)
733206
Researcher
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European Union |
2018/10 - 2019/03 | Early-life exposures and childhood adiposity and cardiometabolic health: an innovative exposome approach
733206
International mobility fellowship (24.000€)
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European Union |
2012 - 2016 | Maternal and Infant Adiposity: Metabolic Health Related Consequences (Individual doctoral grant; 47.000€)
SFRH/BD/81123/2011
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2012 - 2015 | Understanding the dynamics of childhood body fat - the mediating effect of dietary patterns and eating behaviors (Co-investigator;
197,670.00€)
PTDC/SAU-EPI/121532/2010
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2010 - 2012 | Peripheral body fat, lifestyles and adipokines (Individual scientific initiation grant; 18.000€)
PTDC/SAU-ESA/108315/2008
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/09 - Current | Early-life URBAN environmental exposures and childhood multimorbidity: An Exposome-wide approach (URBANE; MSCA Postdoctoral
Fellowship; 172,618.56€)
101109136
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European Union´s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme |
Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference abstract |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Preprint |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/11/13 | Green and blue spaces residential exposure over childhood and multimorbidity in adolescence | 17th European Public Health Conference 2024
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/11/01 | The first thousand days of life and cardiometabolic health in an exposome approach - Grand Round (invited; in Portuguese) |
Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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2023/10/26 | Opportunities and paths in search of collaborative projects between international institutions - Seminar (invited; in Portuguese) |
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Faculty of Medicine ( Porto Alegre, Brazil)
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2023/06/01 | Generation XXI (G21) birth cohort (invited) | EUGLOHRIA Matchmaking Workshop - Longitudinal Approaches to Health Research: Cohorts and Biobanking (online event) |
2023/03/03 | The first 1000 days of life: An opportunity to promote child health (invited; in Portuguese) | Event 'Promotion of Healthy Eating Past, Present, Future'
Directorate General of Health National Program for the Promotion of Healthy Eating (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2022/11/17 | How do Portuguese children grow? (invited; in Portuguese) | Portuguese Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (SPEDP) Annual Meeting.
(Aveiro, Portugal)
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2022/09/01 | Early-life urban exposome and childhood obesity: findings from the Generation XXI birth cohort | XL Annual Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE) and the XVII Congress of the Portuguese Association
of Epidemiology (APE)
(Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain)
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2022/01 | The Gen R Cohort: Child Health Outcomes from Maternal Bisphenol/Phthalate Exposures (invited) | PPTOX-VII: International Conference on Prenatal Programming and Toxicity (Virtual conference) |
2018/06 | Gestational weight gain and risks of adverse pregnancy and childhood outcomes (invited) | Academic Center of Excellence Pregnancy and Childhood Day
(Rotterdam, Netherlands)
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2017/11 | Maternal obesity, weight gain and birth outcomes (invited) | Academic Center of Excellence: Centre for Pregnancy and Child
( Rotterdam, Netherlands)
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2017/10 | Gestational weight gain charts for different body mass index groups for women in Europe, North America and Oceania | 10th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
(Rotterdam, Netherlands)
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2017/06 | Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain and risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes and childhood overweight: individual participant data meta-analyses (invited) | European Birth Cohorts Network meeting
(Barcelona, Spain)
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2016/10 | Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain and risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes: Individual participant data meta-analysis of 230,000 singleton births | Porto Birth Cohorts Meeting
(Porto, Portugal)
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2016/10 | Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain and risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes: Individual participant data meta-analysis of 230,000 singleton births | The Power of Programming 2016
(Munich, Germany)
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2015/05 | Nuts and cardiometabolic health [in Portuguese] (invited) | XIV Congress of Food and Nutrition
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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2014/11 | Effect of n-6 and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids intake at 4 years old on body fat patterns at 7 years old in the Generation XXI birth cohort | III World Congress of Public Health Nutrition
(Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)
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2014/06 | Identification of clusters of body composition and time changes from 4 to 7 years old in children from Generation XXI | 10th International Symposium on Body Composition
(Cascais, Portugal)
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2014/05 | Intrauterine programming of body fat patterns: a path analysis in 4 years-old children from Generation XXI | International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity Annual Meeting
(San Diego, California, United States)
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2013/10 | Identification of clusters of body composition and time changes from 4 to 7 years in children from Generation XXI | 54th Annual Meeting European Society for Paediatric Research
(Porto, Portugal)
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2013/05 | Fatty acids derived from a food frequency questionnaire and measured in erythrocyte-membrane in relation to adiponectin and leptin concentrations [in Portuguese] | XII Congress of Food and Nutrition
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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2012/05 | Adherence to a healthy dietary pattern and body fat distribution evaluated by different methods (DXA and anthropometry) in Portuguese adults [in Portuguese] | XI Congress of Food and Nutrition
(Porto, Portugal)
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2011/11 | Effect of macronutrients on central and peripheral body fat [in Portuguese] | 15th Portuguese Congress of Obesity
(Coimbra, Portugal)
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2011/05 | Influence of Dietary Fatty acids on serum Leptin in Portuguese adults [in Portuguese] | X Congress of Food and Nutrition & II Ibero-American Congress of Nutrition
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2023 - Current | The association of growth trajectory profiles, nutritional intake, and dietary patterns with the development of asthma and
allergic diseases: evidence from a birth cohort
Co-supervisor of Mónica Carolina Rodrigues
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PhD in Public Health
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
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2022 - Current | Association between social, biological and care determinants with the adequacy of newborn weight to gestational age and its
impact on infant mortality in Porto Alegre
Co-supervisor of Carolina Anele
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PhD
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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2024 - 2024 | Development of a predictive model for multimorbidity in adolescents
Co-supervisor of Rodrigo Melo Abrantes
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Masters in Informatics Engineering
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2023 - 2024 | Understanding multimorbidity in adolescence through unsupervised learning
Co-supervisor of Francisco Branquinho
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Master in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2018 - 2023 | Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates and Bisphenols: Growth and health from fetal life until adolescence
Co-supervisor of Chalana Sol
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PhD
Erasmus MC, Netherlands
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2018 - 2022 | Cardiovascular and brain health in early life
Co-supervisor of Carolina Silva
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PhD
Erasmus MC, Netherlands
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2016 - 2022 | Early-life stress and childhood cardio-metabolic health
Co-supervisor of Florianne Vehmeijer
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PhD
Erasmus MC, Netherlands
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2016 - 2021 | Environmental exposures and maternal and child health
Co-supervisor of Elise Philips
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PhD
Erasmus MC, Netherlands
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2017 - 2019 | Determinants and consequences of fatty liver in children
Supervisor of Madelon Geurtsen
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Master in Clinical Epidemiology
Nihes - Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences, Netherlands
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2024/11/22 - 2024/11/22 | Organizer of the activity "Health in the City: Walking Tour" (Target population: young adults) as part of the Science and Technology Week 2024 (Ciência Viva) (2024/11/18 - 2024/11/24) | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal |
2022/09/01 - 2022/09/01 | Co-Organizer of the conference session ´Early-life environmental exposures and child health: what we might learn from Iberian
cohorts´ (2022/08/30 - 2022/09/02)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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XL Annual Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE) and the XVII Congress of the Portuguese Association of Epidemiology (APE), Spain |
2017/10/15 - 2017/10/15 | Hot Topics in Developmental Epidemiology (2017/10/15 - 2017/10/15)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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10th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, Netherlands |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2023 - 2023 | Co-chair conference session | XLI Annual Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE) and the XVIII Congress of the Portuguese Association of Epidemiology (APE), Porto, Portugal, 2023 |
2022 - 2022 | Co-chair conference session | XL Annual Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE) and the XVII Congress of the Portuguese Association of Epidemiology (APE), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, 2022 |
2017 - 2017 | Co-chair conference session | European Birth Cohorts Network meeting, Barcelona, Spain, 2017 |
2017 - 2017 | Co-chair conference session | 10th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2017 |
2016 - 2016 | Co-chair conference session | The Power of Programming, Munich, Germany, 2016 |
Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2023/01/09 | Assessing and improving retention in very preterm birth cohorts: a demanding challenge
(Thesis) Arguer
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Raquel Mara Teixeira (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
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2021/12/15 | Early life predictors of child growth trajectories and early adolescent cardiovascular health
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Parisa Montazeri (PhD)
Instituto de Salud Global Barcelona, Spain
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Ad Hoc journal article review
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2024 - Current | Review editor on the editorial board of Life-Course Epidemiology and Social Inequalities in Health in Frontiers in Public Health | |
2022 - Current | Review editor on the editorial board of Reproductive Epidemiology in Frontiers in Reproductive Health | |
2020 - Current | Journals on Environmental Health (Environ Int, Environ Health Perspect, Environ Pollut, Environ Sci Technol, Ecotoxicol Environ Saf, Toxics, Environ Sci Eur, Environ Res, Environ Sci Pollut Res Int) | |
2017 - Current | Journals on Epidemiology, Public Health, Pediatrics, Obesity/Nutrition (Eur J Epidemiol, PLoS Med, Int J Obes, Pediatr Res, Eur J Clin Nutr, Br J Nutr, Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol, Front Pediatr, Public Health Rev, Am J Clin Nutr, BMC Med) |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2022 - Current | Portuguese Association of Epidemiology | Member |
2022 - Current | International Epidemiological Association | Member |
2020 - Current | European Human Exposome Network | Researcher |
2017 - Current | EU Child Cohort Network | Researcher |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2022 - Current | Scientific Committee from ISPUP
Member
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Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2017/10/15 - 2017/10/18 | 10th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease | Rotterdam, the Netherlands |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2023 - Current | Regent and teacher of the discipline "Maternal and Child Health" (as part of 2nd semester) | Master in Public Health | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal |
2024/01/12 - 2024/01/12 | Class as part of the Perinatal Epidemiology course: "The exposome in the perinatal epidemiology: concept and methods" (7h) | 5th Doctoral Program in Global Public Health 2023/2024 | Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Portugal |
2023/10/23 - 2023/10/27 | Course: "Impact of the exposome on the health of children and adolescents in an epidemiological approach" (12,5h) | Master and Doctoral Programmes on Child and Adolescent Health | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Faculdade de Medicina, Brazil |
2023/05/06 - 2023/05/06 | Class: "Generation XXI: Potential of a birth cohort to support health programming" (2h) | Postgraduation in Pediatric Nutrition. (Pós-Graduação) | Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal |
2017/10/15 - 2017/10/15 | Individual participant data meta-analysis. Hot Topics in Developmental Epidemiology workshop. 10th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Rotterdam, the Netherlands | ||
2016 - 2016 | Teaching assistant, Biostatistical methods I | (Master) | Nihes - Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences, Netherlands |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2020 - 2020 | External reviewer of grant proposal | ZonMw, Netherlands | ZonMw |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2024/09/14 | Os “miúdos” da Geração 21, estudo único em Portugal, fazem 18 anos | Público |
2023/02/24 | Investigadora do ISPUP distinguida com bolsa Marie Curie | Notícias UP |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2024/11/12 - Current | BMI growth features and appetitive traits from childhood to adolescence (supervisor of a PhD Student under a mobility Sandwich Doctorate Program - CAPES) | Paula Moreira |
2023 - Current | Health and Maternal-Child Mortality in Guarujá: Birth cohort Guarujá (supervisor of Postdoctoral researcher) | Maíra Malta |
2024/09/01 - 2024/10/31 | Urban exposome and body mass index trajectories from birth to adolescence (supervisor of a postdoctoral researcher with a H2020 ATHLETE mobility fellowship) | Tom Ranger |
2024/01/01 - 2024/07/31 | Neighborhood deprivation, body mass index and body composition and fat distribution from early childhood to pre-adolescence (Erasmus+ Traineeship Programm supervisor) | Greta Piazza |
2023/09/01 - 2024/02/29 | Green and blue spaces residential exposure over childhood and multimorbidity in adolescence: The Generation XXI birth cohort (Erasmus+ Traineeship Programm supervisor) | Cara Victoria Bruns |
2023 - 2024 | Mode of delivery and BMI trajectories and growth features (supervisor of a PhD Student under a mobility Sandwich Doctorate Program - CAPES) | Michelly da Silva Alves |
2022/11/01 - 2023/07/30 | Addressing Missing Data in the Development of a Risk Prediction Model for Childhood Obesity (Internship supervisor of a Master Student in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, FCUP) | Mafalda Oliveira |
2022 - 2022 | Fetal exposure to bisphenols and phthalates and BMI-trajectories over childhood (Tutor of a Master Student in Medicine, Nihes, the Netherlands) | Geneviève Delgado |
2015 - 2016 | Associations of maternal obesity and excessive weight gain during pregnancy with subcutaneous fat mass in infancy (Tutor of a Master Student in Clinical Epidemiology, Nihes, the Netherlands) | Varsha Jharap |
Other jury / evaluation
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2024/01/17 - 2024/01/17 | Jury for the Hiring of 1 Senior Technician within the scope of Generation XXI (President of Jury) | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal |
2024/01/05 - 2024/01/05 | Jury for the Hiring of 1 Senior Technician within the scope of Generation XXI (President of jury) | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal |
2023/08/17 - 2023/08/17 | Jury for the Hiring of 1 Postdoc researcher within the scope of the project ORACLE (2022.07363.PTDC) | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal |
2023/07/17 - 2023/07/17 | Arguer in interview-meeting of Vânia Magalhães entitled "The role of xenobiotics from processed foods on adiposity and metabolic health outcomes" as part of the Doctoral Programme in Public Health | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal |
2023/07/13 - 2023/07/13 | Jury for the Award of 2 PhD Studentships (PhD in Global Public Health and PhD in Public Health) | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal |
2023/01/17 - 2023/01/17 | Jury for the Hiring of 1 Senior Technician within the scope of Generation XXI | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal |
2022/05/23 - 2022/05/23 | Jury for the Hiring of 1 Senior Technician within the scope of Generation XXI | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal |
2022/05/19 - 2022/05/19 | Extern expert for award of the European/International Doctoral Mention of Maria Torres Toda (PhD thesis: Influence of natural environments during pregnancy on fetal health) | Instituto de Salud Global Barcelona, Spain |
2021/07/15 - 2021/07/15 | Extern expert for award of the European/International Doctoral Mention of Alicia Abellán Écija (PhD thesis: Early life environmental exposures and childhood respiratory health) | Instituto de Salud Global Barcelona, Spain |
Distinctions
Award
2023 | The SESPAS Award for the best communication in public health. Predicting the risk of overweight/obesity in adolescence using
population-level pregnancy and birth data. XLI Annual Scientific Meeting of SEE and the XVIII Congress of APE. Porto, Portugal
Spanish Society for Public Health and Sanitary Administration, Spain
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2016 | New Investigator Award. Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain and risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes: Individual participant data meta-analysis of 230,000 singleton births. The Power of Programming 2016. Munich, Germany |
2015 | 1st prize for best poster-oral communication. Associations of infant subcutaneous fat mass with total and abdominal fat mass at school-age. The Generation R Study. 9th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Cape Town, South Africa |
2013 | 1st prize for best oral communication. Fatty acids derived from a food frequency questionnaire and measured in erythrocyte-membrane in relation to adiponectin and leptin concentrations [in Portuguese]. XII Congress of Food and Nutrition. Lisbon, Portugal |
2012 | 1st prize for best oral communication. Adherence to a healthy dietary pattern and body fat distribution evaluated by different methods (DXA and anthropometry) in Portuguese adults [in Portuguese]. XI Congress of Food and Nutrition. Porto, Portugal |