Maria do Rosário Oliveira Martins

Maria do Rosário Oliveira Martins is a Full Professor- teaching Statistics, Econometrics and Research Methods. She is Deputy Director, President of the Pedagogical Board, scientific coordinator of the PhD in International Health and of the master’s degree in Statistics for Health. She is member of the board of the PhD Program in Global Public Health, member of the International AIDS Society Award Committee for Experts in HIV Service Delivery Fellowship Programme and member of the European Mathematical Society Ethics Commission. She is the IHMT-NOVA representative at the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI), where she is a member of the Executive Committee for Strengthening Surge Mechanisms during Health Emergencies.

Between 2014 and 2019, she was IHMT Deputy Director, member of the Strategic Advisory Committee of the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), Member of the University Ethics Council  and  WHO consultant for Health Information Systems (Health Observatory of the African Region).

She was member of the NOVA University General Council between 2009 and February 2018, member of the Ethical Committee for Research Investigation in Portugal (CEIC) between 2011 and 2017 and vice President of the IHMT Scientific Council between 2010 and 2012. She has been President of the NOVA eLearning Unit Mission, between 2007 and 2009.

From 2004 until 2007, she has been Pro-Rector of NOVA University of Lisbon, having implemented the NOVA eLearning Centre.

Between 2000 and 2010, she has been Deputy Director of the NOVA-Institute of Statistics and Management Information, President of the Pedagogical Board, Director of the undergraduate Program in Information Management, member of the Portuguese Statistical Council, consultant at the National Institute of Statistics and member of the NOVA University Senate.

Supervised more than 70 Master Dissertations and 20 PhD Theses. She was Principal Investigator of more than 15 Research and Development Projects award by national and EU funds.

Since 2004, she organizes capacity building research and training activities (statistics, research methods and scientific writing) namely in Portuguese Speaking African Countries, such as Mozambique, Cape-Verde and Angola.

In 2020, Maria do Rosário Oliveira Martins was awarded the gold medal for Human Rights by the Portuguese Parliament for the study on the socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 pandemic on native and immigrant families in Amadora, Portugal.

 

Research Topics: cohort studies, econometrics for public health, health determinants of vulnerable populations

Coordination of the project “Health determinants and needs of children on the move in a pandemic context: A longitudinal study for Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region” PTDC/SAU-SER/4664/2020, 249.758,13 euros)
In this interdisciplinary project involving the NOVA SBE and the School of Public Health, I am coordinating a team of more than 15 researchers, 3 of whom are working on PhD theses and 5 on master’s theses within the project. Using a collaborative approach (academia, policy makers, health-workers, ONGs and representatives of communities), the aim of this cross-sequential mixed methods study is to analyze health trajectories of migrant and refugee children in 4 municipalities of Lisbon Region for the period 2021-24. We extend the CRIAS cohort to include more 800 children.

Publications: She is author of 6 books and has published more than 100 papers in National and International Scientific Reviews. She participates regularly in scientific international conferences.

1. MO Salminen, O Helve, H Ullum, H Ostermann, C Habl, G Rørtveit, MRO Martins, C Semaille. “The urgent need to protect WHO is also an opportunity.” The Lancet 405.10480 (2025): 693. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00264-8
2. Manafe, Naisa, et al. “Prevalence and associated factors of common mental disorders among internally displaced people by armed conflict in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique: a cross-sectional community-based study.” Frontiers in public health 12 (2024): 1371598. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2024.1371598
3. Domingos Veiga Varela; Maria do Rosário Oliveira Martins; António Furtado; Maria da Luz Lima Mendonça; Ngibo Mubeta Fernandes; Ivone Santos; Edna Duarte Lopes. “Spatio-temporal evolution of mortality in Cape Verde”. PLoS Global Public Health 3 3 (2023). doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000753
4. Zélia Muggli; Thierry Mertens; Regina Amado; Ana Lúcia Teixeira; Dora Vaz; Melanie Pires; Helena Cristina Loureiro,…, Oliveira Martins, Maria R. . “Cohort profile: Health trajectories of Immigrant Children (CRIAS)-a prospective cohort study in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, Portugal”. BMJ Open 12 10 (2022). doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061919
5. Ahmed Nabil Shaaban; Bárbara Peleteiro; Maria do Rosário Oliveira Martins. “Statistical models for analyzing count data”. BMC Health Services Research 21 1 (2021). doi:10.1186/s12913-021-06389-1