Scientific Advisory Committee

Prof Dr Tiago Correia is Associate Professor in global health with habilitation in Health Policies and Development. He is the representative member of IHMT at The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), The International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI), and the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Health Planning and Management (Wiley). His research and teaching interests include health systems and policies, health inequalities, human resources for health, health planning and interventions. The geographical coverage of these interests reaches Europe, Africa, North and Latin Americas. His academic experience in Portugal and abroad includes the coordination of research projects and teaching programs, technical consultancy, and science communication.

Dr Rui Dang is a senior lecturer in health economics at Westminster International University in Tashkent; and the program director for the Postgraduate Diploma/MSc program in Applied Health Economics (online) at the University of South Wales in collaboration with Learna / Diploma MSc. He has been a guest professor in demographic economics at the Gdansk University of Technology and a visiting assistant professor at the PUCRS-Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. His research interests include Health Economics, Health Policy, Applied Econometrics, Quantative Methods in Clinical Research

He has been a member of the European Commission’s Knowledge for Policy Network (Evidence-based Policy Making and Competent Center for Technology Transfer). In addition, he is a member of the Education Committee, Global Health Competencies Sub-Committee and SDG(Sustainable Development Goals) Taskforce at the CUGH-Consortium of Universities of Global Health(Washington D.C., USA) as well as a special interest group co-convener under the iHEA-International Health Economics Association.  He is a Global Labor Organization fellow (Bonn, Germany).

He is serving as an associate editor for the IJTAHC-International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care) (Cambridge University Press), and an editorial board member of the Journal of Migration and Health (Elsevier) and SSM Health Systems (Elsevier).  He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, plus postdoctoral-level health policy analysis training at Dartmouth College, USA

Prof Dr Marija Jevtic is a full professor at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Medicine, specialist in Hygiene and medical ecology (Public Health) at the Institute of Public Health of Vojvodina; research collaborator at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Research Centre on Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health; associate member of the Academy of Medical Sciences Serbian Medical Society; group analyst and System Psychodynamic Organisational Consultant.

She has almost 30 years of experience in the research and education process and advocacy in public health and environment and health. Field of interest and work: public health, one health, planetary health environment and health, SDGs, climate change, disaster and health, migration, mental health, school health, food safety, nutrition, health management, group psychotherapy, organisational consulting.

She has published more than 160 papers in international and national journals and more chapters in textbooks and monographs. Also, she participates in several scientific and professional projects.

She served as Director of the Institute of Public Health of Vojvodina; Head of the Department of Hygiene at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad; Assistant Minister to the Ministry of Health RS.

Prof Dr Lasse Lehtonen is the Director of Diagnostic Services at the Helsinki University Hospital and Professor in Health Law at the Helsinki University. He leads a Diagnostic Center that provides services for about 2 million people in Southern Finland in some 170 locations both in hospitals and in primary care. He is a long-time member of the management board of the Helsinki University Hospital and served also in the boards of the different subsidiary companies of the hospital. He holds medical specialty in clinical pharmacology and drug therapy.

Prof Lehtonen’s research interests are currently in healthcare management, patient’s rights and patient safety, but he also has a long list of scientific publications on cardiovascular pharmacology and transplantation immunology. As one of the leading academics in healthcare legislation in Finland, he has regularly been used as an expert in the Finnish healthcare reform by both the Ministry of Welfare and Health as well as the Finnish parliament.

From 2013 to 2022 Prof Lehtonen was a member of the Expert Panel on Effective ways of Investing in Health for the European Commission.

Teresa Magalhães, PhD in Public Health from NOVA University of Lisbon (UNL), is a Professor at UNL’s National School of Public Health (NSPH). Her primary research interests lie in digital health, information management, and hospital resource efficiency. She has worked on various projects related to predictive models, telehealth, telepharmacy, teleconsultation, telerehabilitation, telemonitorisation, and evaluation of health information systems. She has also been involved in the development and implementation of a Digital Health course at NSPH. Additionally, she served as a hospital administrator in different capacities, including CEO of the Portuguese Red Cross Hospital and various roles at Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Norte (CHULN) and Centro Hospitalar de Setúbal (CHS). Prior to her work in the healthcare sector, she worked as a consultant at Accenture, specialising in information systems strategy.

Teresa Magalhães is actively engaged in various professional associations and research centers, including the Information Management Working Group at the Associacao Portuguesa de Administradores Hospitalares (APAH), Comprehensive Health Research Center (CHRC) at NOVA University of Lisbon. Over the past five years, she has participated in numerous conferences as a speaker, moderator, and abstract presenter. She has published articles and edited a book on digital transformation in health.

Dr Federica Morandi is Assistant Professor of Organisation Theory at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Faculty of Economics, Department of Management Studies. From 2012 to 2018 she served as Research Fellow at the same university. From 2020 she is Director of the Academic Programs in ALTEMS (Graduate School of Economic and Management of healthcare systems), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.  She is also Responsible for the research activities of the Patient Advocacy Associations Lab- (ALTEMS).

She has been awarded for her research activities by the Academy of Management and by Assioa (Italian association of organisation studies).

She covered two positions as visiting scholar (short term) at ISCTE-IUL Lisbon (Portugal) and at the Tillburg University (Holland).

Her research interests span both organisational models in healthcare and human resource management and organisational behaviours.

Federica Morandi co-authored more than 30 scientific papers both in international and national peer-reviewed journals and about 10 book chapters.

She is also author of a monography entitled “Managerial solutions to hospital challenges” edited by Nova Science Publishers in 2016.

Since 2021 Federica is co-responsible of an editorial collection  (edited by Giappichelli) dedicated to healthcare management topics. She has given many presentations at International and National Conferences.

Dr Bellis van den Berg studied psychology and holds a PhD in epidemiology. She has more than twenty years of experience in health services research. Her work focuses on monitoring and impact, learning organisations and data-driven health care. She engages in research and implementation of continuous improvement and innovations in health care organisations, focusing on collaborating with practice and translating conceptual knowledge to practice.

At Vilans she coordinates the monitoring of research in large-scale implemenation and innovations programs in long-term care.