Mónica de Melo Freitas is a post-doctorate researcher in the area "Evaluation and Management of Policies of Health", Phd in Economic Sociology and Integrated Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA) of Univseridade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal. In the past ten years she has researched about health, namely network of partnerships in hospital sector, and has published articles, book chapters and conference proceedings with peer review jointly with other researchers from Portugal, Italy and Brazil.

Research Interests:

Networks of Partnerships. Digitalization. Health Management.

Main Projects:

• "The Study of Potentialities and Difficulties to Consolidate a Hospital Cluster in Municipality of Cascais”;
• "Social Responsibility and Health: Representations, Values, Motivations and Instruments".

• "The Actor Network Theory as a Framework Theory and Methodological Approach in Researches on Health and Nursing" http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0104-0707201700091001;
• “Mapping the Social Responsibility in Public-Private Hospitals of Portugal” https://ece.pefka.mendelu.cz/sites/default/files/imce/ECE2017_fin.pdf;
• “The Sociology of Complex Social Systems: Applications of Moderns Systems Theory”: www.ISA-sociology.org/forum-2016. ISBN 978-0-7619-2046-5;
• “Social Responsibility and Hospitals: An Overview about Values, Programs and Networks of Partnerships”: www.ISA-sociology.org/forum-2016. ISBN 978-0-7619-2046-5;
• “La Finanza Locale ad Impatto Sociale. Le Esperienze Europee” in La Finanza Sociale: Le Tendence in Europa e le Prospettive per l´Italia. Pierciro Galeone e Marco Meneguzzo (ed.). 53- 92. Itália: IFEL- Fondazione ANCI;
• “European Agenda for Health and Political Legitimation of Social Responsibility” in Social Responsibility: In Governance in Business Companies and Non-Governmental Organizations. From Diagnosis to Action. Edited by Maria Joao Santos et. al (ed.). 251- 266. Editora Almedina. ISBN: 978-972-40-5328-8.