Maria João Silva
Invited Speaker
Maria João Silva is a Senior Researcher and the Head of the Genetic Toxicology Group at the Human Genetics Department of the National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon. She integrates the Coordination Board of the Centre for Toxicogenomics and Human Health (ToxOmics), NOVA Medical School, Universidade Nova de Lisboa where she also co-leads the thematic line on Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Disease. Her research has been focused on the interaction between genetic and environmental factors, associated mechanisms, and health outcomes. She has coordinated/participated in National and European Projects on environmental genotoxicity, nanotoxicology, human biomonitoring and risk assessment. She has served in expert groups at ECHA, IARC and OECD. She coordinated INSA's participation and scientific activities in the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) and has assumed a similar role in the Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC), in which she also co-leads some tasks and the workpackage on synergies, collaborations and awareness.
Rita Cavaleiro
Invited Speaker
Rita Cavaleiro is a science officer at the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) since 2012. At the Evaluation Office of FCT (2012-2015), she was involved in the management of the evaluation process of several national FCT calls. Since 2015, she has been working at the Department for International Relations, where she represents FCT/Portugal in several transnational cooperation scientific Partnerships and Programmes. She was the National Hub Contact Point for Portugal during the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU). Prior to the work at FCT, Rita Cavaleiro was a biomedical researcher in immunology of HIV infection at the Institute of Molecular Medicine and she was awarded with the 2008 Pfizer Award in Clinical Research, attributed by the Society for Medical Sciences of Lisbon. She was also a Secondary level teacher and University professor, a product support specialist and scientific advisor at the company Citomed and an R&D and Innovation Junior Manager at Eurotrials Scientific Consultants. Rita holds a PhD in Biomedical Sciences and a MSc in Human Molecular Biology from the University of Lisbon and a pre-Bologna Licenciatura degree in Applied Chemistry from the NOVA University of Lisbon.
Isabel Moura
Invited Speaker
More than 30 years of experience in food & beverages and environment reference laboratory activities: quality control and quality assurance, analytical and instrumental method development, validation and implementation in inorganic chemistry (metals) field including environmental sampling programming and planning.
More than 20 years of management and leading experience: environmental projects coordination, department and unit coordination as well as in quality auditing for laboratory accreditation and trainee in environmental sampling strategies as well as metals and other inorganic chemistry analysis methodologies including spectroscopic methods.
Large experience as environmental chemistry expert at national, European and international level in working groups, technical committees and conventions in environment science and laboratory field.
Since 2011 has been working as senior officer in international affairs department of Portuguese Environment Agency which coordinates the relationship with the EU and International bodies on the environmental policy issues, namely:
United Nations Environmental Program (Chemical Conventions and Strategies and);
New LBI on plastic pollution negotiations;
OSPAR Convention and Marine Strategy Framework Directive (e.g. coordination of Marine Litter national programs and plans).
At present is participating in the following projects:
Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC) (as NH_PT representative and partner for communication and synergies work package);
Marike Kolossa-Gehring
Invited Speaker
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Dr. Marike Kolossa-Gehring is biologist and toxicologist and got her PhD from the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany. Her research focusses on toxicology and human biomonitoring (HBM). She joined the German Environment Agency (UBA) in 1992 where she worked on environmental impacts on human health, general and international affairs of environmental chemicals regulation, toxicology and as head of the section “Pharmaceuticals, Washing- and Cleansing Agents”.
She is Head of Section “Toxicology, Health-related Environmental Monitoring” and was coordinator of the European Joint Programme HBM4EU, a joint effort of more than 120 partners from 30 countries, the European Environment Agency and the European Commission, co-funded under Horizon 2020. At the UBA she is in charge of managing the German Federal Human Biomonitoring Program consisting of German Environmental Survey (GerES), the part on human samples of the German Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB), the German Human Biomonitoring Commission, and the HBM cooperation between the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU).
She was involved in the development of assessment strategies and guidelines at the national, EU and OECD level, vice-chair and chair of the OECD Endocrine Disruptor Testing and Assessment Task Force from 2006 to 2010. She was Work Package Leader in the EU HBM projects ESBIO, DEMOCOPHES and COPHES, the Consortium to Perform Human Biomonitoring on a European Scale preparing and piloting a European human biomonitoring study. From 2011 to 2014 she was Governmental Councillor of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES) and is member of the curatorium of the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT.
She is one of the co-leads of Work Package 4 “Exposure and Monitoring” of PARC, the “European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals” in which the work of HBM4EU will be continued and a next round of HBM studies for Europe will be conducted.
Maria Andrea Cara D'Anjo
Invited Speaker
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Andrea Cara d’ Anjo, Licenciada em Medicina Veterinária pela Faculdade De Medicina Veterinária da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa em 1992. Pós-graduação em Segurança Alimentar e HACCP pelo NISQA, Cooperativa de Ensino Egas Moniz.
Integrou os serviços oficiais em 1994 como Inspetora sanitária e tem trabalhado nas áreas de Saúde Animal, Epidemiologia, Segurança Alimentar e Resistências aos Antimicrobianos. Médica Veterinária dos serviços oficiais componente técnica, e em diversos momentos em cargos de Direção intermédia da administração pública.
Recentemente abraçando o desafio da One Health (Uma Só Saúde).
Foi ao longo dos anos ponto de contacto da EFSA, do OIE (agora OMSA – Organização Mundial de Saúde Animal).
Atualmente representante nacional no AMR One Health network da CE.
Representante do Setor Animal no National Action Plan – OMS/OMSA UNEP FAO (Quadripartide)
É atualmente Representante da DGAV no PNCRAM (Plano Nacional de Combate às RAM) que articula com os setores da Saúde e Ambiente a nível Nacional.
Desde setembro de 2020 Coordenadora do Grupo de Trabalho 1 Só Saúde da DGAV. Grupo multidisciplinar criado para articulação das áreas transversais a nível interno e externo procurando a interoperabilidade setorial necessária para a implementação das políticas e programas no âmbito da abordagem Uma Só Saúde.
Mariana Fernandes de Barros
Invited Speaker
Mariana Barros has a degree in Chemistry from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Oporto. She also did her Master in Chemistry in the same university. She has a post-graduation in Labour Law at the Law School of Oporto of the Catholic Portuguese University.
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She has been working as a Labour Inspector at the Portuguese Authority for Labour Conditions, since 2009, contributing to the promotion of labour conditions by controlling the application of the labour legislation. From 2013 to 2017 she was a seconded national expert, working as a Policy Officer in the REACH Unit within the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) of the European Commission. She provided technical advice in the activities related to risks to human health and environment, in particular to the ones involving the REACH Regulation.
Pedro Nabais
Invited Speaker
Pedro Nabais graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Technical University of Lisbon in 2008. Joined ASAE in 2010 as a senior technician in the ASAE's Technical Expert Office and has been an expert in the food sector ever since. In October 2013 joined ASAE's Food Risks Unit, where he has been Head of Unit since May 2017. His main mission is to assess and communicate risks in the food chain, characterising and assessing risks that have a potential impact on food safety and public health. Member of the EFSA Scientific Network on Chemical Monitoring Data Collection since 2019, in the domains of contaminants and food additives. Invited Expert in the EFSA’s Advisory Group on Data (AGoD) and several of its sub-groups.
Greet Schoeters
Invited Speaker
Greet Schoeters is Emeritus Professor at the University of Antwerp and vice president of the Belgian Superior Health Council. She has managed projects in environmental health and environmental toxicology at VITO ( Flemish Institute for Technological research) for more than 30 years. She coordinated the Flemish human biomonitoring project between 2002 and 2020. She has helped to build EU wide human biomonitoring activities through active involvement in the EU projects ESBIO, COPHES, DEMOCOPHES and HBM4EU. She served as vice chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Environment Agency (2012-2020), participated in different risk assessment committees (EFSA, SCHER) and was president of the European Society for Toxicology in Vitro (2008-2012). Special interest are the use and implementation of molecular biomarkers in cohort studies, in vitro mechanistic toxicology to better understand the effects of chemicals in humans and to improve the dialogue with decision makers and stakeholders to promote the uptake and use of the scientific results. She has been Publications from the last years can be found at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6556-4814 or at schoeters G - Search Results - PubMed (nih.gov).
Susana Viegas
Invited Speaker
Susana Viegas. Professor at the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health of the National School of Public Health of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. The main area of research is exposure to environmental determinants of health in different contexts, including climate change and contamination/exposure to chemical substances. She actively collaborates with the Portuguese Environment Agency and two European agencies, namely the European Chemicals Agency and the European Environment Agency. She coordinates and collaborates in several national and international research projects in the area of risk assessment, indoor air quality, occupational health, exposure to endocrine disruptors, among others. She has authored or co-authored more than 180 publications in scientific journals.
Carla Trindade Costa
Chair
Carla Trindade Costa, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, is assistant researcher in the Portuguese National Institute of Health (INSA, I.P.). She holds significant expertise in population targeted studies and genotoxicity assessment, being involved in several national and international competitively funded research projects, and in the supervision of several students at different scientific stages (from bachelor to PostDoc). Currently, her main research interests refer to environmental exposures to complex mixtures, emerging compounds, and risk assessment.
Ana Virgolino
Chair
Ana Virgolino is a researcher and project manager at the Lisbon School of Medicine, Institute of Environmental Health (ISAMB).
Over the last years, she has been responsible for managing and supervising various national and international scientific projects in the areas of Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Health Sciences, Public and Environmental Health, Epidemiology and Social Sciences, supervising postgraduate students and internships. She published more than 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has seven book chapters. Has received five awards and/or honors.