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Oriana Rainho Brás

Research Group:

5: Health, Population and Well-being


Research Team:

Public policies, organisations and health professions


Online Profile:


E-mail:

orianabras@fcsh.unl.pt




Oriana Rainho Brás concluded her PhD in Sociology in 2013, at the University of Coimbra, with a thesis on the bio-social trajectories of tuberculosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She graduated in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the same university in 2003. Her research is focused on health, the environment and public participation in water management. Currently, she is part of the research team of the project ETIC Managing end-of-life trajectories in pallative care: a study on the work of health care professionals, PTDC/SOC-SOC/30092/2017”, at CICS.NOVA, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.


Research Interests:

Health. Environment. Public participation. Water. Ethnography.


Main Projects:

  • 2019- : ETIC Gerindo Trajectórias de final de vida em cuidados paliativos: um estudo sobre o trabalho dos profissionais de saúde. Investigador. CICS-NOVA, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, IPPortalegre, Universidade de Évora. Financiamento: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia;
  • 2016-2017: RePortCancer/CancerRePort: Researching the dynamics and international positioning of the Portuguese medical oncology community. Investigadora. ASPIC – Associação Portuguesa de Investigação em Cancro. Equipa: Leonor David (coord.), João Arriscado Nunes, Alberto Cambrosio, Jean-Philippe Cointet. Financiamento: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; Bristol Meyers-Squibb; ASPIC-Associação Portuguesa de Investigação em Cancro;
  • 2015-2019: Portugal: Ambiente em Movimento. Membro da equipa. Francisco Rego Chaves Fernandes, CETEM, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Lúcia de Oliveira Fernandes e Stefania Barca Oficina Ecologia e Sociedade do CES-UC; Sofia Coelho Bento, CSG, SOCIUS, ISEG, Ulisboa;
  • 2015: Estudo sobre a participação pública na definição das QSigA. Investigadora. Sofia bento (coord.). CSG, SOCIUS, ISEG, ULisboa. Financiamento: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia;
  • 2014. SIALON II Capacity building in combining targeted prevention with meaningful HIV surveillance among MSM. Investigadora. IHMT-Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Lisboa – Portugal; AOUI-Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata, Verona, Italy;  IGTIP-Fundació Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol; ICO-Institut Catala d'Oncologia Barcelona, Spain; INBI-Institutul National De Boli Infectioase Prof. Dr. Matei Balș, Bucuresti, Romania; ISS-Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; ITG-Prins Leopold Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde Antwerpen, Belgium; NCIPD-National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Sofia, Bulgaria; NIPH-National Institute of Public Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia; NIZP-PZH-National Institute of Public Health-National Institute of Hygiene, Warszawa, Poland; RKI-Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany; SMI – Smittskyddinstitutet; Solna, Stockholm, Sweden, SMU-Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovakia; ULAC-Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS, Vilnius, Lithuania; UOB-University of Brighton, Brighton-United Kingdom.
    Collaborating partners: ACCEPT, Bucuresti, Romania; ANDOS-Associazione Nazionale contro le Discriminazioni per Orientamento Sessuale, Roma, Italy; ARCIGAY-Associazione LGBT Italiana, Bologna, Italy; ASMEDA, Vilnius, Lithuania; DHA-Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe, Berlin, Germany; DOM SVETLA-Light house, Bratislava, Slovakia; GAT, Lisboa, Portugal; Hein & Fiete,Hamburg, Germany; HWB-Association Health Without Borders, Sofia, Bulgaria; INMI-Istituto Nazionale Malattie Infettive, Roma, Italy; Lambda Warsawa Association, Warszawa, Poland; Rainbowhouse Brussels, Bruxelles,  Belgium, SENSOA, Antwerpen, Belgium; SKUC Magnus, Ljubljana, Slovenia; STOP SIDA, Barcelona, Spain; THT-Terence Higgins Trust (South), London-United Kingdom; TJA-Tolerantisko Jaunimo Asociacija, Vilnius, Lithuania.  Financiamento: União Europeia.

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