Professionally: as Professor of the College of the Americas - Inter-American Organization for Higher Education Senior Investigator and Professor of CIIE - Centre for Research and Intervention in Education, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto.  Director of the Iberoamerican Observatory of Health and Citizenship (http://www.iohc-pt.org/index.php/pt/) and Revista Iberoamericana de Salud y Ciudadanía ISSN 2182-4185 (http://revista .iohc-pt.org/index.php/pt /). Academically is: Postdoc in Anthropology (2003) and PhD in Sociology (2001) - Universidad de Barcelona; Masters in Medicine (1997) - Universidad de Barcelona and a Masters in Sociology (1997) from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Graduated in Medicine (1993) and Philosophy (1986) from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is a member of various research networks: CLACSO - Latin American Council of Social Sciences, REDIAL Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre  America Latina, CEISAL - Consejo de Europeo de Investigaciones Sociales sobre America Latina and LASA - Latin American Studies Association . In addition to belonging to several European associations as FES - Federación Española de Sociologia, APS - Portuguese Association of Sociology and ESHMS - European Society for Health and Medical Sociology.