José Manuel Peixoto Caldas:Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Social Sciences, Federal University of Paraíba (2024/...); Senior Researcher at the Iberoamerican Institute and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Salamanca (2024/...); Senior Researcher Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon (2021/...); Full Professor at the Master's Degree in Gerontology of the Federal University of Paraíba (2019/...); Full Professor at the Center of Health Sciences of Palliative Care and Public Health of the Federal University of Paraíba (2017/2021); Visiting Scientist at USP/FAPESP at the School of Nursing of the University of São Paulo (2018/2019); Coordinator of the Research Group: Social Medicine: Law, Health and Citizenship; Full Professor in Sociology of Hospital Organizations at the Master in Health and Welfare Policies at the Institute of Humanities and Health Sciences of the Fundación Ortega y Gasset; Integrated Researcher at the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto/ISPUP (2017/2021); Visiting Professor in Public Health at the University of Fortaleza - UNIFOR (2015/2017); Visiting Professor in Health Sociology at the Department of Clinical Psychology of the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo (2014/2015); Senior Researcher at FAPESP - Foundation for Research Support of the State of São Paulo (2015/...); Associate Professor at the College of the Americas - Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (2012/2016); FCT Assistant Researcher at CIIE - Center for Educational Research and Intervention, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto (2009/2014). Responsible for the Chair in Education, Gender and Health and coordinator of the Master in Gender(s), Diversity, Sexual and Reproductive Health at the College of the Americas (COLAM-OUI) (2012/2016). He is the Director of the Iberoamerican Observatory of Health and Citizenship (http://www.ccs.ufpb.br/iohc/) and of the Iberoamerican Journal of Health and Citizenship I Revista Iberoamericana de Salud y Ciudadanía ISSN 2182-4185. Academically he is: Post-doctorate in Sociology and Communication (2019/20) - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid; Post-doctorate in Anthropology (2003) - Universidad de Barcelona; Doctor in Sociology (2001) - Universidad de Barcelona; Master in Medicine (1997) - Universidad de Barcelona; and Master in Sociology (1997) - Universidad Nova de Lisboa. He holds degrees in Medicine (1993) and Philosophy (1986) from the New University of Lisbon. Associate Editor at the University of São Paulo Nursing School Journal. He is a member of different Iberoamerican research networks: RIUPS - Ibero-American Network of Health Promoting Universities; CLACSO - Latin American Social Science Council, REDIAL - European Network for Information and Documentation on Latin America, CEISAL - European Council of Social Research on Latin America and LASA Latin American Studies Association. Besides belonging to several European Associations such as FES - Spanish Federation of Sociology, APS - Portuguese Association of Sociology and ESHMS - European Society for Health and Medical Sociology, of the Lusophone Association for the Fight against AIDS, of the International Sociological Association. He was Visiting Research Fellow: of the Instituto de Investigación Gino Germani of the Universidad de Buenos Aires - UBA (2011), of the Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento - CEBRAP (2008/2009), Researcher and Assistant Professor of the Universidad de Barcelona (2001/2009), Consultant of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (2001/2008). His main lines of research focus on the following topics: AIDS/HIV, Palliative Care, Health Promotion and Education, Sexual Behaviours and STDs, Gender Violence, Public Health Policies and Citizenship, Vulnerability/Risk, Social Anthropology and Health Sociology.