Coordinator: Cristina Padez
The main purpose of this research group is the study of human biological variation, understood in its widest sense to include patterns of health and disease over the course of the life cycle, with a strong emphasis on social, cultural, and political-economic circumstances as major determinants of this variation. Portugal had political, social and economic changes and experienced major improvements in the population’s standard of living during the XX century, mainly after the 1960-70s, particularly in terms of nutritional quality and delivery of health care, that still have major impacts on human health and well-being.
The main areas of research of this group are:
1- Biocultural approaches to childhood obesity: the role of political, social and economic changes in Portugal in the last century
2- Inequalities in childhood obesity, sedentary behaviors and physical activity
4- Social, economic and political changes in Portugal during the 20th century and health outcomes: secular in stature and age at menarche
Coordinator

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society (Group Coordinator)
Institutional Address: Department of Life Sciences
E-mail: cpadez@antrop.uc.pt
Phone number: + 351 239 240721
Research interests:
Childhood obesity and their association with social, familiar and environmental factos.
Socioeconomic status and Sedendary behaviors and their association with childhood obesity.
Ongoing Projects:
Inequalities in childhood obesity: the impacto f the socioeconomic crisis in Portugal
from 2009 to 2015 (PTDC/DPT-SAP/1520/2014)
Personal URL
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1967-3497
https://publons.com/researcher/2754551/cristina-padez-m-padez/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cristina_Padez/
http://coimbra.academia.edu/CristinaPadez/
http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=4469147301938421
Researchers

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address: Department of Life Sciences
Email: rodriguesari@hotmail.com
Research interests:
Biological, social and geographic determinants of health, and behavioural features of the lifestyle of our populations (i.e. sedentary behaviour, physical activity and nutritional habits) and how these variables may modify health-related quality of life.
Projects:
Inequalities in childhood obesity: the impact of the socioeconomic crisis in Portugal from 2009 to 2015 (PTDC/DPT-SAP/1520/2014)
Personal URL:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aristides_Machado-Rodrigues
http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=1449522783040933

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address: Departamento de Biologia Animal,
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
Email: augusta.gama@fc.ul.pt
Phone number: + 351 217 500000
Research interests:
Causes for children and adolescent obesity: infancy factors; socioeconomic, familiar and physical environmental factors; lifestyles and psychosocial factors.
Obesity and age at menarche.
Ongoing Projects:
Inequalities in childhood obesity: the impact of the socioeconomic crisis in Portugal from 2009 to 2015 (PTDC/DPT-SAP/1520/2014)
The economic crisis and malnutrition in children and older adults: a pilot study in the municipality of Lisbon. FMH-UL, FC-UL, IHMT-UNL, ULHT
Personal URL:
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/N-1657-2015
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2143-8602
https://www.cienciavitae.pt/F01B-AD14-A8B1
https://ciencias.ulisboa.pt/perfil/maantunes

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address:
CIAS – Research Centre for Anthropology and Health.
Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra.
Email: rodrigues1323@gmail.com
Research interests:
Human behaviour; Gender stereotypes on sport; Childhood obesity; Prevalence and trends of obesity;
Physical environment; Socio-Ecological Model; Physical activity; Sport participation
Personal URL:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniela_Rodrigues27

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address:
Universidade de Coimbra
Centro de Estudos de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território
Largo da Porta Férrea
Coimbra
3000-056 Coimbra
Portugal
E-mail: helenamarquesnogueira@gmail.com
Phone number: (+351) 239 857 033
Research interests:
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Social Inequality
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Health Disparities
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Health Inequality
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Health Equity
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Health Promotion
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Health Outcomes
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Equity
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Social Environment
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Social Medicine
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Preventive Medicine
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Childhood Obesity
Personal URL:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Helena_Nogueira2/info
https://www.cienciavitae.pt/B319-5DF3-C71C
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=8367611900

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address: Research Centre for Anthropology and Health, University of Coimbra
E-mail: mmiguel06@gmail.com
Research interests:
Margarida Miguel Costeira e Pereira é Geógrafa com especialização em Ordenamento do Território e Desenvolvimento, e colabora em investigações na área da Geografia da Saúde desde 2006. É mestre em SIG e Ordenamento do Território desde 2009 e em Saúde Pública desde 2014. Atualmente frequenta o Doutoramento em Geografia na Universidade de Coimbra. A sua investigação foca-se nos determinantes ambientais em saúde, mais especificamente o impacto do ambiente social e construído na obesidade infantil.

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address:
Faculty of Health Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa
Rua Carlos da Maia, 296
4200-150 Oporto, PORTUGAL
E-mail: raquel@ufp.edu.pt
Phone number: +351 22 5074630
Research interests:
Anthropometry; Appetite; Athletes; Body composition; Bone mineral density; Cancer; Cardiovascular Diseases; Children and Adolescents; Circadian Rhythm; Diet therapy; Eating Disorders; Elderly; Energy and nutrients; Food insecurity; Food intake; Health education; Hypertension; Jet Lag; Lifestyle factors; Neurosciences; Nutrition; Nutritional supplements; Obesity; Physical activity; Poverty; Pregnancy; Sleep; Sport; Young adults and Adults.
Personal URL:
CV: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/2518-6117-FB25
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8170-3119
Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56924197900
CV DeGóis [http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=1598787303963863]

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address:
Department of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities
Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon
Estrada da Costa
1499-002 Cruz Quebrada – Dafundo
Portugal
Phone number: 00 351 214149100
Email: vmarques@fmh.ulisboa.pt
Research interests:
Tropical Populations; Human Biology; Childhood Growth and Development; Nutrition/Malnutrition; Determinants of Nutrition; Food Security/Availability; Nutritional Anthropometry. Public Health. Epidemiology; Cooperation.
Field Work Experience: 2008 to present – Fieldwork in Guinea-Bissau, particularly in the regions of Bafatá, Gabú and Quinara within projects in the area of maternal and child health, nutrition and food security; 1988 to presente – Nutritional Anthropometry – Portugal.
Personal URL:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4343-6624
https://iict-pt.academia.edu/VitorRosadoMarques
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vitor_Rosado_Marques?
Ongoing Projects:
2015- – Member of the research team of the project “Inequalities in childhood obesity: the impact of the socioeconomic crisis in Portugal from 2009 to 2015”;. PTDC/DTPSAP/1520/2014.
2014-2018- – Principal Researcher of the Project “A crise económica e a má nutrição em crianças e idosos: estudo piloto no Concelho de Lisboa”. FMH-UL, FC-UL, IHMT-UNL, ULHT.
2014-2016 – Researcher in the Cooperation Project “NHAMI BELDI – Promoção da Segurança Alimentar e Prevenção da Desnutrição nas regiões de Bafatá e Gabu, Guiné-Bissau”, coordinated by the NGOD Instituto de Solidariedade e Cooperação Universitária (ISU), in partnership with two Guinean NGO (ADIC-NAFAYA and GUIARROZ) and funded by Instituto Camões.
2013- – Member of the research team of the Project “Para um perfil populacional multidisciplinar do Sul de Angola: uma região chave para a compreensão do povoamento humano na África Austral”;/ “Towards a multidisciplinary population profiling of southern Angola: a key region for understanding human settlement in southern Africa”;. [PTDC/BIA-EVF/2907/2012].
Researchers (PhD Students)

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Societ
Institutional Address: Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
E-mail: martaroriz2006@gmail.com
Research interests:
Marta Roriz has a Master’s degree in Medical Anthropology, and is currently a PhD candidate at CIAS, with the project “A genealogy of obesity: From Biopolitics to a Hospital Ethnography”. Her research dwelves on ethnographic methods applied to science and medicine, and the broader theory fields of medical anthropology and STS’s.
Personal URL:
http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=7974325643015439
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0399-113X
Collaborators

Research Group: Human Biology, Health and Society

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address:
Cognitive-Behavioral Center for Research and Intervantion (CINEICC), Coimbra
FPCEUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal
E-mail: claudiaferreira@fpce.uc.pt
Research interests:
- Psychopathology,
- ACT,
- Mindfulness,
- Eating Behaviours

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional address: Universidade Federal do Pará – UFPA, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia – PPGA,
Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas – IFCH, Cidade Universitária José da Silveira Netto, R. Augusto Corrêa, 01
Campus Universitário do Guamá, 66075-900, Belém, Pará, Brasil
Email: hdasilva@ufpa.br
Research interests:
- Health,
- Growth and Development,
- Chronic Diseases,
- Human Evolution and Variation,
- Traditional Populations,
- African and African-derived Populations,
- Brazil, Amazon, Africa
Personal URL:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3287-3522
http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4782390J9

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address: Department of Nutrition
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Professor Alfredo Balena, 190, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Phone number: +55 31 24099800
Email: larissalouresmendes@gmail.com
Research interests:
- Nutrition, Public Health
- Epidemiology
- Built and Social environments
- Obesity and others non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
- adults, children and adolescents
Ongoing Projects:
Coordinator of two funded research projects.
Project 1- Built Environment and Social Environment Associations with Overweight, Obesity in Children and Adolescents in Juiz de Fora city. Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
Project 2 – School Market: Food And Nutrition Education In Schools of Juiz de Fora city. Funding: Foundation for Research Support of Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG)
Personal URL:

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address:
Instituto Superior Miguel Torga
Largo Cruz de Celas, 1
Coimbra
3000-132 Coimbra
Portugal
Research Interests:
Clinical Pychology, Acceptance, mindfulness and compassion-based group intervention, Clinical Assessement in Adolescence, Development of psychopathology in adolescence
Personal URL

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address
Profa Departamento de Nutrição
Escola de Enfermagem
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Personal URL

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address:
Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
E-mail: patriciasmmarques94@gmail.com
Research interests:
- Childhood and adolescent obesity and their association with socioeconomic and lifestyles factors.
- Obesity and age at menarche

Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address:
Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
Email: tiago.andremad@gmail.com
Research interests:
- Childhood and adolescent obesity
- socioeconomic and lifestyles factors
- Obesity and age at menarche
Personal URL:
A retrospective study of the impact of growth and nutritional status and socioeconomic circumstances during the first year of life on adult health, namely in risk of obesity, chronic diseases, and premature mortality, using Portuguese historic archives of infant growth
A follow-up study of Portuguese-born and African immigrant adolescents who where observed in 1993-1996 as infants. The prevalence of obesity in this group will examined against maternal characteristics and infant growth patterns during the first year of life
A retrospective study of the influence on adult height, longevity, morbidity and cause-specific mortality of growth patterns and social conditions in a sample of children observed in 1933
Studies of child growth and health as a mirror of major social, economic and political changes that occurred during the 20th century in Portugal through the study of archival, osteological and dental evidence
Investigate the influence of socioeconomic circumstances on child growth and development and its impact on age determination of unidentified child skeletal remains or of juvenile suspects to determine criminal liability
Examine secular trends in dental health of Portuguese children and young adults, from the late 19th century to the early 21th century
Examine the changes in prevalence of obesity in 3-10-year-old children, 2002-2007, in relation to family and environmental factors
A longitudinal study on physical growth and obesity will be initiated on a sample of preschool children
A follow-up study of changes in height and weight of children in Lisbon observed in 1977
Examination of lifestyle, metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors in a national study of obesity in adolescents
Body size, body shape, body composition and blood pressure in two populations from the Brazilian Amazon: nutritional and health indicators in two ecological settings
Implications of sleep quality and duration in obesity and in health perception in adolescents – Family and Environmental effects.
Quilombola women: relationship of life cycle in the Caatinga and Cerrado biomes
Duration: 2010-2014
Duration: 2013-2017
Uma genealogia de obesidade: da biopolítica a uma etnografia hospitalar
Duration: 2014-2020
Duration: 2014-2020
Duration: 2014-2020
A Geographic perspective of the impact of the economic crisis on childhood obesity
Duration: 2016-2020