Medical doctor (2010) with specialty in Public Health (2019). Master in Public Health (2015) studying health inequities in diabetes and hypertension the northern region of Portugal (2015). PhD in health and social policies, using as case study the example of tobacco prevention; part of this work integrated the SILNE-R project (Horizon2020).
Nowadays, I work as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine of Porto University and researcher at the Institute of Public Health of Porto University. I also collaborate as expert with the Portuguese National Health Council.
I am passionate about health inequities and very curious about health promotion - I am particularly interested in understanding the processes behind the adoption and design of health and social policies, and their effect on health, namely in different socioeconomic groups.
I had work experience at the local, national and international levels of action, in the field and in academic arena.
Main publications:
Nunes-Rubinstein, M., & Leão, T. (2021). Arguments used by proponents and opponents in Brazil’s regulatory discussions of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products. Tobacco Control.
Leão, T., Perelman, J., Clancy, L et al. (2020). Economic evaluation of five tobacco control policies across seven European countries. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 22(7), 1202-1209.
Leão, T., Kunst, A. E., Perelman, J. et al (2019). Adolescents’ smoking environment under weak tobacco control: a mixed methods study for Portugal. Drug and alcohol dependence, 204, 107566.
Sandoval, J. L., Leão, T., Theler, J. M. et al. (2019). Alcohol control policies and socioeconomic inequalities in hazardous alcohol consumption: A 22-year cross-sectional study in a Swiss urban population. BMJ open, 9(5), e028971.
Sandoval, J. L., Leão, T., Cullati,et al. (2018). Public smoking ban and socioeconomic inequalities in smoking prevalence and cessation: a cross-sectional population-based study in Geneva, Switzerland (1995–2014). Tobacco control, 27(6), 663-669.
Leão, T., Campos-Matos, I., Bambra, C., Russo, G., & Perelman, J. (2018). Welfare states, the Great Recession and health: Trends in educational inequalities in self-reported health in 26 European countries. PloS one, 13(2), e0193165.
Leão, T., & Perelman, J. (2018). Depression symptoms as mediators of inequalities in self-reported health: the case of Southern European elderly. Journal of Public Health, 40(4), 756-763.
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