The thematic line 7 (TL7) aims to explore new pathways to favour people-centred health promotion and disease prevention, with a strong focus on community engagement on a global scale.
Coordinated by Elisa Keating, this thematic line carries out fundamental, clinical, and translational research with various aims, such as identifying critical food determinants of chronic diseases; screening environmental determinants of human health; providing data on healthy ageing; promoting health literacy strategies and the use of digital tools; and facilitating a person-centred approach to Family Medicine from prevention to treatment.
Another aim is to empower self-care and illness adaptation, namely through the validation of intervention programs and exploration of cost-effective and sustainable alternatives, as well as to define ethical priorities in the health sector for emergent fields such as artificial intelligence.
Coordinates RISE-Health’s Thematic Line 7 – Community Care & Prevention, and she is also a Member of the Scientific Committee of the Associate Laboratory RISE and a Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP).
She graduated in Biochemistry from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP) and earned her Doctoral Degree in Human Biology from the FMUP, where she began her academic and scientific career in 1999 as a monitor and held a position as a post-doctoral fellow. She was also a guest researcher at the Catholic University of Portugal.
She has been the Principal Investigator of the ProNutri research group of CINTESIS@RISE. As a scientist, she has integrated financed scientific projects, among which the most notable was IoGeneration. Her research work described critical data on the insufficient iodine status in children and pregnant women in Portugal. On the other hand, her data highlighted the excessive amount of folic acid in pregnancy. These results led to the reformulation of public health policies by governmental entities, with a significant societal impact.
Elisa Keating has led key clinical and animal studies (IoMum, VeggieNutri, IoMumNEXT, SleePsy, and MHSWEET) and has fostered strategies to promote clinical and translational research with extent to community and health policies.
RISE-Health
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro
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