Carlos Matias Dias is a Visiting Assistant Professor at NOVA NSPH. His areas of work range from infectious diseases, particularly COVID-19 over the past three years, to non-communicable diseases, where he continues to study the association between environmental factors and non-communicable diseases, congenital anomalies, domestic and leisure accidents, as well as the use of epidemiological approaches to assess health policies.
Since 2008, he has been Director of the Department of Epidemiology at the National Institute of Health. He was Chairman of the Board of the Portuguese Association for the Promotion of Public Health and is currently a member of the ECDC Advisory Forum and the Scientific Advisory Board of Santé Publique France, the French Public Health Agency.
He holds a PhD in Public Health with a specialization in Epidemiology from NOVA NSPH, a Master’s in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a degree in Medicine from the Faculty of Medical Sciences, NOVA University Lisbon. After completing his medical residency, he obtained the qualifications of Specialist in Public Health Medicine, Senior Assistant in Public Health Medicine, and Public Health Medical Consultant, all awarded by the Portuguese Ministry of Health and the Portuguese Medical Association.
