Isabel Craveiro

Graduated in Sociology (BSc) since 1996, and Master in Sociology of Development and Social Transformation (2002) by the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra. In 2010 obtained PhD degree in International Health from the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of NOVA University of Lisbon. Associate Professor in the Unit for Global Public Health, at IHMT-NOVA.

Member of the Scientific Council of the Research Center Global Health and Tropical Medicine and facilitator of the Cross Cutting Issue Fair Research Partnerships.

Coordinator of the Masters in Public Health and Development. Has supervised several post-doctoral, doctoral and master’s works.

Professional experience in Portugal, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea Bissau. She has been involved in large collaborative research projects financed by European Union and FCT.

Works on health evaluation, health informed policies.

Main areas of interest are global public health, the mechanisms of health informed policies, international comparisons of health workforce interventions, gender, and social determinants of health.

Areas of research focus on qualitative research methods and mixed methods applied to social sciences, and health policy research.

1. Craveiro, Isabel; Carvalho, António; Ferrinho, Paulo. “Get us partnerships!” – a qualitative study of Angolan and Mozambican health academics’ experiences with North/South partnerships. Global Health 16, 33 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-00562-7
2. Craveiro, I., Choudhury, P.K., de OLiveira, A.P.C. et al. Impacts of industrial actions, protests, strikes and lockouts by health and care workers during COVID-19 and other pandemic contexts: a systematic review. Hum Resour Health 22, 47 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-024-00923-y
3. Marques da Cruz M., Craveiro I., Kabad J.F. & Vitorino S.A.S (org.) (2022). Avaliação em saúde, redes sociotécnicas e translação do conhecimento. [Health Evaluation, sociotechnical networks and knowledge translation]. Coleção: Saúde em Debate, 343. Editora Hucitec. ISBN: 9788584043170.
4. Ribeiro RM, Havik PJ, Craveiro I. The circuits of healthcare: Understanding healthcare seeking behaviour-A qualitative study with tuberculosis patients in Lisbon, Portugal. PLoS One. 2021;16(12):e0261688. Published 2021 Dec 28. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0261688
5. Varanda Jorge, Gonçalves Luzia, Craveiro Isabel (2020). The Unlikely Saviour: Portugal’s National Health System and the Initial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Development. December 2020. http://doi.org/10.1057/s41301-020-00268-8