Cláudia Conceição

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 Scientific council; Member of the IHMT’s Ethics Council since 2015 and president since 2020. She has 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 hospital of Lugadjole, Guinea Bissau.

Cláudia Conceição has participated in the coordination of 4 European projects funded by the European Commission; she was a researcher in more projects funded by the European Commission, WHO/Geneva and nationally funded projects (FCT, FCGulbenkian).

Teaching and research areas: Travel medicine, tropical medicine, global health

Researcher ID: J-7377-2013; Scopus Author ID: 6602549536

Areas of interest: Travel Medicine, Tropical Medicine, Global health

1. Rocha R, Gonçalves L, Conceição C, Andrade P, Cristóvão JM, Condeço J, Delgado B, Caeiro C, Kuzmenko T, Vasconcelos E, Escoval MA, Rey C, Guz M, Norte C, Aldeia C, Cruz D, Maia C. Prevalence of asymptomatic Leishmania infection and knowledge, perceptions, and practices in blood donors in mainland Portugal. Parasites & Vectors. 2023;16(1):357. doi:10.1186/s13071-023-05980-1

2. Rocha R,Conceição C, Gonçalves L, LeishPT group, Maia C. Epidemiological and clinical trends of visceral leishmaniasis in Portugal: retrospective analysis of cases diagnosed in public hospitals between 2010 and 2020. Infect Dis Poverty. 2024;13:41. doi:10.1186/s40249-024-01204-5

3. Loesch R, Ribeiro R, Conceição C. Tuberculosis contact investigation in African Portuguese-speaking countries at End TB Strategy era: a scoping review. BMJ Open. 2022;12(4):e056761. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056761

4. Conceição C, Medeiros M, Pereira N, Gonçalves L, Antunes A, Teodósio R, Pereira F. Health problems during and after travel: a prospective observational study in a travel clinic in Portugal. Acta Med Port. 2021;34(13):1-10. doi:10.20344/AMP.14098

5. Serrano D, Santos-Reis A, Silva C, Dias A, Dias B, Toscano C, Conceição C, Baptista-Fernandes T, Nogueira F. Imported malaria in Portugal: prevalence of polymorphisms in the anti-malarial drug resistance genes pfmdr1 and pfk13. Microorganisms. 2021;9(10):2045. doi:10.3390/microorganisms9102045