Helga Eliana Mamede Vicente Gonçalves

Helga Mamede GonçaIves is an Internal Medicine Doctor and Health Research. She is currently  Research Fellow at the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) Research and Development Center – Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM) and Ph.D. student of International Health at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT), Nova University Lisbon (UNL), Portugal.

She obtained a master’s degree in Public Administration, specialization in Health Administration, University of Lisbon, 2018-2022 and a post-graduate course in Criminal Legislation and Medicine, in Lisbon Law School.

She was Team member of the National Development Sanitary Plan of Angola, Health Ministry, Angola in 2014 and has more than ten years of clinical care activity, having worked in Angola, Brazil and Portugal.

Selected to participate in “Top Female Founders”2023, in Vienna, Austria, a program funded by the European Union, whose objective is to provide the foundation for sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship in health.

Main research area: clinical and epidemiological research in the Tropics.

Helga Vicente is a member of the Individual Health Care (IHC) Research Group, which promotes translational and implementation research on tropical diseases, travel medicine, and migrant health. The group aims to improve (1) the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control of malaria and other febrile diseases in the tropics, and (2) child and reproductive health care for vulnerable populations, including migrants and residents in low- and middle-income countries.

Currently, her research focuses on the causes and outcomes of acute febrile illnesses in southern Angola.

1. Author and presenter of poster at NOVA Science & Innovation Day 2024, Lisbon. Vicente, H. M., Antunes, M. L., Seixas, J. B. & Ferreira, M. U. Exploring the causes and clinical outcomes of nonmalarial acute febrile illnesses in southern Angola: a prospective, hospital-based study in Lubango city.
2. Author and presenter of Pitch at Top Female Founders 2023, Vienna. Vicente, H., Vishnyakova, V., Behl, O., Diaz, N. Own Your health journey through your health data.
3. Author and presenter of casuistry at 25th Congress of Portuguese Internal Medicine, 2019. Vicente, H., Magno, S., Fernandes, L., Machado, J. 2019. Diabetic Ketoacidosis ‑ A sample of 149 patients from Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca hospital.
4. Poster author: Non‑Hodgkin’s T cell lymphoma in a patient diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis at 25th Congress of Portuguese Internal Medicine, 2019.
5. Author and presenter case report: Kidney disease Autosomal Dominant Polycystic at 1st Junior Doctors Session in Girassol Clinic, 2016.
6. Author and presenter case report: Cerebral Vascular Accident from Gas Embolism at 2nd congress in Girassol clinic, 2014.

Relevant Conferences

1. Participant in the 7th Conference International Conference Nova Health, 2024.
2. 6th Portuguese Congress of Tropical Medicine, 2023.
3. 26th Portuguese Congress of Internal Medicine, 2020.
4.  25th Portuguese Congress of Internal Medicine, 2019.
5.  24th Portuguese Congress of Internal Medicine, 2018.
6.  21st Conference of School of Social and Political Sciences: Portuguese Public Administration in XXI, 2018.