Tiago Correia

Tiago Correia is an Associate Professor at the Global Public Health Unit and a Researcher in Global Health and Tropical Medicine at IHMT-UNL. He holds a Habilitation in International Health with a specialty in Health Policies and Development from the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at Nova University of Lisbon (IHMT-UNL, 2023), as well as a PhD in Sociology from ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute (2011) and two Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Public Health (University of Montreal, 2011 and McGill University, 2012).

In addition to his academic role, Tiago Correia holds leadership positions, including Vice-President of the Thematic Committee on Public Health Workforce Development at the International Association of National Public Health Institutes/IANPHI (since 2024), Head of the WHO Collaborating Center on Health Workforce Policy and Planning (since 2023), Vice-President of the Health and Care Workforce section at the European Association of Public Health/EUPHA and member of the Board of Directors at the European Health Management Association/EHMA (since 2024).

His research focuses on health systems, governance, and workforce issues, and he has led several international and national projects. These include acting as Principal Investigator for the Vax-Action project funded by EU4HEALTH (2023-2027), a nationwide study on professional satisfaction and retention in medicine and nursing in Portugal (Government of Portugal, 2023-2025), and a Work Package leader the Vax-Trust project addressing vaccine hesitancy in Europe (H2020, 2021-2024).

In terms of research supervision, Tiago Correia has guided post-doctoral researchers, and doctoral and master students.

Tiago Correia has written or co-authored 4 books, 50 articles in indexed journals, 16 book chapters, and several technical reports. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Health Planning and Management (since 2020) and served on the editorial boards of Health Sociology Review and Frontiers in Sociology.

Tiago Correia has received several awards from Lisbon University Institute for scientific articles between 2014 and 2019.

• Vaccine hesitancy
• Health workforce training in vaccination and vaccine hesitancy
• Health workforce training in health management and leadership
• Technological innovations for bed management and inter-professional coordination in hospitals
• Health workforce (availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality)
• Policy design and implementation
• The mapping of narrative medicine and medical humanities

1. Kuhlmann, E., Lotta, G., Dussault, G., Falkenbach, M., Correia, T. (eds) (2024). The workforce crisis in healthcare: moving the debate to bridge evidence and policy. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 39 (3), special issue.
2. Correia, T., Ricciardi, W. and McKee, M. (2024), Preparing for the ‘next pandemic’: Why we need to escape from our silos. Int J Health Plann Mgmt, 39: 973-979. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3757
3. Betsch, C., Schmid, P., Verger, P. et al. A call for immediate action to increase COVID-19 vaccination uptake to prepare for the third pandemic winter. Nat Commun 13, 7511 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34995-y
4. Correia T, Daniel-Ribeiro CT, Ferrinho P (2021). Calling for a planetary and one health vision for global health. One health, 13, 100342.
5. Kuhlmann E, Dussault G, Correia T (eds) (2021). Global health and health workforce development: education, management and policy beyond the COVID-19 crisis. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 36 (S1), special issue.