FUNDING ENTITY
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
- European Social Fund Plus (ESF+)
FUNDING
LISBOA2030-FEDER-01319000
The project aims to establish a Centre for Public Health Knowledge (CPHK), dedicated to advancing scientific and technological knowledge in the field of precision public health. It seeks to strengthen excellence, cooperation, and internationalisation across its scientific areas, contributing to high value-added economies through strategies for disease prevention and health promotion, fostering healthy and sustainable communities.
Integrated within a public higher-education research centre (NOVA NSPH), and contributing significantly to the implementation of the priority axes and structuring programmes of RIS3, the CPHK intends to address the main threats to population health. These include climate change and other environmental hazards, the burden of non-communicable diseases and mental health disorders, low-quality, inaccessible or inefficient healthcare, and poverty and social exclusion. The Centre is focused on developing solutions to identify, design, test, evaluate, and disseminate innovative interventions, services, and policies to improve population health. It will address the social and environmental determinants of health, which have a strong impact on healthcare delivery through associated disease burden.
The research will be intersectoral in nature, conducted in settings where people live and work, and aligned with four core scientific areas: Healthier Ageing, Healthier Behaviours, More Efficient Care Delivery Systems, and Healthier Environments. These areas will be supported by six intervention pillars: Precision Public Health, Data Platform and Technical Differentiation, E-Cohorts, Co-ownership and Co-production of Solutions, Behavioural Sciences, and Entrepreneurship and Lifelong Learning.
The proposed R&D&I (Research, Development and Innovation) infrastructure is designed to foster collaboration among businesses, public bodies, universities, social partners, and research centres by generating scientific and technological knowledge that stimulates business investment and economic value creation. As a result, it is expected that increased knowledge and technology transfer from R&D will translate into innovative and competitive products and services, as well as effective, cost-efficient precision public health interventions with measurable impact on the health system.
Research Team Coordination
Carolina Santos
Sónia Dias
Technical Team
Gonçalo Mota (Strategy and Development)
Romana Borja-Santos (Communications and Marketing Office)
