Cláudia Jardim Santos

Cláudia Jardim Santos completed her Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Aveiro, in 2017, with a minor in Pharmaceutical Biomedicine. Cláudia concluded her Master’s degree in Public Health at the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto, in 2019, with the dissertation: “Sexually transmitted infections in Portugal: mapping and spatial analysis”.

Cláudia is most interested in addressing critical public health issues especially related to the spatial variations of disease in populations and the mechanisms of neighbourhood effects on health. Therefore, Cláudia is integrated in the LAB 3 – “Health and Territory” – of the Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional as a PhD candidate in Public Health. Currently, her research project funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (UI/BD/150782/2020) is related to ageing in place to understand how the neighbourhood social environment can shape ageing trajectories.