Carlos Matias Dias is an Invited Assistant Professor at the National School of Public Health NOVA. His areas of work range from infectious diseases, namely COVID-19 in the last three years, to non-communicable diseases, where he maintains work on the association of environmental factors with non-communicable diseases, congenital anomalies, domestic and leisure accidents, and on the use of epidemiological approaches to evaluate health policies.
Since 2008 he has headed the Epidemiology Department of the National Health Institute. He was President of the Board of Directors 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 doctorate in Public Health with a specialization in epidemiology from NOVA NSPH, a master’s degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a degree in Medicine from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of NOVA University Lisbon. After his medical residency, he was awarded the degrees of Specialist Doctor in Public Health, Senior Assistant Doctor in Public Health and Medical Consultant in Public Health, both by the Portuguese Ministry of Health and the Portuguese Medical Association.
