Teresa Maia has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the NOVA National School of Public Health since 2015. Her main areas of interest are Mental Health Promotion in general and the development of programs in this field, particularly during the perinatal period, and also in specific at-risk populations such as the children of people with psychiatric illness, or in the process of integrating migrant populations. She is also very interested in the organization and development of mental health services, and in establishing partnerships and networking, as well as in promoting mental health in the workplace. At NOVA NSPH, she has supervised several Master’s and PhD theses and has been a member of several Master’s and PhD juries. She is also the author of several scientific articles, conferences and presentations at national and international congresses.
Teresa Maia is Head of the Psychiatry Department at Hospital Fernando Fonseca (HFF), Director of the Psychiatry Department at this hospital since 2013 and of the Mental Health Department since 2019. She was Clinical Director of the HFF from January 2011 to November 2012. She has been ARSLVT’s Regional Mental Health Coordinator since September 2016, chairing the RLVT Regional Mental Health Council since then and being part of the Regional Coordinating Team of the National Network for Integrated Continuing Care in Mental Health.
At the HFF, she coordinates the “Semente – Promoção da saúde mental nos filhos de pessoas com doença psiquiátrica” Program, which was funded by EEAgrants, with ENSP NOVA as one of the project partners, and the “Semente gravidez e primeiros anos de vida” Program, in which NOVA NSPH, the HFF, ARSLVT and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation are partners.
She also participates in the Mental Health Department of the HFF in collaboration with NOVA NSPH, in a study supported by Janssen entitled Are anomalous self-experiences, predictive of schizophrenia in children of parents with mental illness?She has been a member of several juries for international master’s degrees in mental health policies and services at NOVA and has participated in doctoral juries at NOVA Medical School;
PhD in Public Health – Health Promotion from the NOVA National School of Public Health with the Thesis “Determinants of the Mother-Baby Relationship during Pregnancy” (October 2014).
