Institute of Public Health, University of Porto (ISPUP)
The ISPUP team co-leads the co-creation process of ADVANCE. They will provide guidance on a collaborative approach involving the Society Advisory group, composed of different actors in mental health.
Team members
Cláudia is Associate Researcher at the Institute of Public Health and Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, both at the University of Porto. As an interdisciplinary social scientist, Cláudia is interested in public and user involvement in health policy and research, data governance and digital health. Her work looks into how members of the public can engage more meaningfully with data-intensive biomedical research and digital health interventions to inspire fair and healthy futures. She is especially interested in participatory governance and how issues of representativeness, inclusion, and justice come to the fore (or are cast to the fringes) in data-intensive research landscapes. She is also interested in the emergence of new forms of civic participation, advocacy, and citizenship linked to health digitisation.
Cláudia leads the Research Lab Public and Patient Involvement in Health at the Associate Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR), University of Porto. She co-coordinates Project ADVANCE co-creation Work Package 1. She is also involved on a project assessing public attitudes towards the use of blockchain technology in health data sharing and she was technical adviser at the University of Limerick’s WHO Collaborating Centre on Centre for Migrants Involvement in Health Research.
Raquel Mara Teixeira graduated in Nutritional Sciences (2003) in Brazil and has a Master's (2017) and a Doctorate degree (2023) in Public Health at the University of Porto. She has a solid background in programme planning and implementation, and worked for seven years in Sao Tome and Principe, leading the implementation of the National School Feeding Program and coordinating the South-South Cooperation project portfolio. Her main research interests are vulnerable populations, food insecurity, and the development and implementation of digital solutions for health promotion. Raquel works as associate researcher in WP1, working on the development of problem analysis and co-creation process in mental health promotion and prevention.