Inês Fronteira

Inês Fronteira is an Associate Professor at ENSP NOVA. Her research focuses on health policy and health systems, with a special focus on the health workforce and how this pillar of the health system can be strengthened to increase access, efficiency and quality of care. Often using epidemiology, she also studies ways to improve the design and implementation of health care policies and programs. Her recent work includes empirical evaluations of strategic planning in the areas of health workforce, health workforce education and health policy evaluation.

Inês Fronteira is president of the Portuguese Epidemiology Association. Since 2021, she has been an advisor to the National Ethics Council for Life Sciences (CNECV). Since 2023, she has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Health Management Association.

PhD in International Health from the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - NOVA University Lisbon (2011) and with a qualification in Public Health - Epidemiology from the National School of Public Health - NOVA University Lisbon (2022). Master's Degree in Public Health from the National School of Public Health - NOVA University Lisbon (2003). Graduated with distinction in Nursing (2000).

PEDAGOGICAL COORDINATION

Postgraduate Diploma in Health Auditing
Online Short Course in Fundamental Epidemiology

PARTICIPATION IN TEACHING

Epidemiology (Specialization Course in Hospital Administration, Master's Degree in Physiotherapy in Musculoskeletal Conditions)
Human Resources Management (CM Health Management, Optional)
Organization and Management of Health Services (CE Public Health)
Organization of the Health System (CM Clinical Research Management)

He has supervised or co-supervised 7 doctoral theses and more than 30 master's theses at national and foreign universities.
He has supervised more than a dozen post-doctoral internships.

ONGOING

• HEalth woRkfOrce to meet healht challEngeS EU4H-2021-JA2-IBA (Co-PI)
• Non specific effects of BCG in under-five children, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (EXPL/SAU-EPI/0067/2021) (PI)
• Improving equity in access to early diagnosis of cancer: implementation research in different healthcare systems of Latin America (EquityCancer-LA) Inv

FINALISED (MORE RELEVANT)

• BCG vaccine to reduce abseenteism due to infectious diseases of health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. A multi-center randomised controlled trial (EDCTP RIA2020EF- 3049) (co-PI)
• Workforce intelligence from open sources - living systematic reviews (2021-016_UHC-HWF_WrkforceIntel).
• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control training in the area of vaccination and vaccine hesitancy for primary healthcare professionals (NP/2020/DPR/23653).
• Master in Field Epidemiology Training for Portuguese-speaking West African Countries EDCTP, CSA Capacity development for disease outbreak and epidemic response in sub-Saharan Africa, in collaboration with Africa CDC (CSA 2020 E 3113)
• Addressing Gaps in Men's Health Literacy and Health Seeking in Mozambique: A Case for Differentiated Care for HIV and CVD. Medical Research Council, Reino Unido (MR/S013253/1)

Author of several books and chapters in national and international books, reports and other grey literature and more than 30 articles in non-indexed journals. She has published more than 100 articles in indexed journals, including the following as first or last author in the last two years:

• Fronteira I, Magalhães JP, Ferrinho P. European Health Union: An emergent reality. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hpm.3747
• Ferrinho P, Daniel-Ribeiro CT, Ferrinho R, Fronteira I. Building-blocks to develop one health systems. One Health. 1 de dezembro de 2023;17:100624 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352771423001441
• Ferrinho P, Fronteira I. Developing One Health Systems: A Central Role for the One Health Workforce. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023;20(6):4704. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/6/4704
• Ferrinho P, Viveiros M, Fronteira I. Antimicrobial resistance, society and environment: A glocal syndemic. One Health. 1 de junho de 2023;16:100512. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352771423000320
• Soares D de A, Placeres A, Arcêncio RA, Fronteira I. Evidence on tuberculosis in migrants at Brazil’s international borders: a scoping review. Journal of Migration and Health. 4 de fevereiro de 2023;100167. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266662352300017X
• Placeres AF, de Almeida Soares D, Delpino FM, …, Fronteira I. Epidemiology of TB in prisoners: a metanalysis of the prevalence of active and latent TB. BMC Infectious Diseases. 11 de janeiro de 2023;23(1):20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07961-8
• de Almeida Soares D, Arcêncio RA, Fronteira I. Inequities between migrants and non-migrants with TB: Surveillance evidence from the Brazilian border state of Roraima. One Health. 9 de dezembro de 2022; 100473. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352771422001057
• Soares YK da C, Araújo TME de, Borges JWP, Andrade EMLR, Oliveira AD da S, Fronteira I. Effect of mobile application use on knowledge about human immunodeficiency virus among university students. Rev Gaúcha Enferm. 4 de novembro de 2022;43. http://www.scielo.br/j/rgenf/a/pHz85Bq8dCvDXXJPCMnVbYN/?lang=en
• Jesus TS, Landry MD, Hoenig H, Dussault G, Koh GC, Fronteira I. Is Physical Rehabilitation Need Associated With the Rehabilitation Workforce Supply? An Ecological Study Across 35 High-Income Countries. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 1 de abril de 2022;11(4):434–42. https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3892.html
• Martins MR, Shaaban AN, Abecasis A, Muggli Z, Amado R, Vaz D,…, Fronteira I. Are immigrants more vulnerable to the socioeconomic impact of COVID-19? A cross-sectional study in Amadora Municipality, Lisbon metropolitan area. Frontiers in Public Health. 2022;10. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.920308
• Fronteira I, Buchan J, Poz MRD, Ferrinho P. Leadership in HRH: remembering the future? Human Resources for Health. 12 de maio de 2022;20(1):38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-022-00738-9

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1406-4585

• President of the Portuguese Epidemiology Association
• Counsellor of the National Ethics Council for Life Sciences
• Member of the SAC of the European Health Management Association
• Affiliated Researcher of the Bandim Health Project