Health, Technologies and Well-being Sciences
Doctoral Degree
Ano Letivo 2024/2025

Course Overview

This study cycle results from a process of intense collaboration between academic institutions and the proposing research centers, with 3 nuclear aspects that underlie its relevance: a. The complexity and centrality of Health, whose understanding requires a perspective that is anchored in transdisciplinarity. It is equally accepted that health intervention cannot continue to be developed based on models centered on professions and these being organised in monolithic, corporative and hierarchical structures, which must be transprofessional. Considering the social determinants of health, intervention in it should not only be clinical in a restricted sense, but also organizational, social and political. Research is a determining factor for the quality of care provided, which should integrate the skills of health professionals in order to allow a quick translation of knowledge into the health care; b. The Phd as a response to professional development needs, insofar as training and qualification in Health and Welfare Sciences and Technologies is a way to strengthen human capital skills and develop rigorous instruments to understand complex health situations and intervene in problem solving; c. The Phd as a co-built development path ? through the transversal skills course in which aspects such as research ethics, the dissemination of science, among others, are developed.

Course in Association/Partner Institutions:

Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública

Organic Unit: Institute of Research and Advanced Training

Duration: 6 Semesters/180 ECTS credits (60 required and 12 optional in curricular units)

Language: Portuguese, English

Regime: Presencial

CNAEF Areas:

Health (720)
Nursing and caring (723)

Study Plan

A3ES Accreditation

Specific Entry Requirements

The following are specific conditions for admission
a) Holders of the Master's degree or legal equivalent in areas of Health Sciences, Nursing, Health Technologies, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Biological Sciences, Human Motricity, Engineering and Computer Sciences, or other related areas;
b) Holders of a Master's degree in any area of knowledge when they have a particularly relevant academic or scientific curriculum in the area of health;
c) Exceptionally, holders of a licenciado degree or legal equivalent in the areas referred to in a), or other related areas conferred by a Portuguese higher education institution, with a minimum classification of 16/20, as well as graduates from foreign institutions with an equivalent degree and classification, recognized under the legal terms, and holding a relevant scientific curriculum in the area of health, that attests to their capacity to carry out this cycle of studies by the Scientific Council of the consortium institution that coordinates each edition of the course (University of Évora or Nova University of Lisbon);
d) Admission into the specialty area of nursing shall be limited to those with bachelor's and master's degrees in nursing.
The recognition referred to in the previous number is proposed to the statutorily competent body of the host institution by the Course Director.