Henrique Barros

Henrique Barros

Henrique Barros was born in Porto, in 1957, and graduated in Medicine in 1981. During 1988-89 was research fellow at the Internal Medicine department of Lund´s University Hospital. In 1991 became Gastroenterology specialist and defended his PhD, with research on the epidemiology of viral hepatitis. He is Full Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Porto since 1999. He launched the Master Programs in Public Health, Epidemiology and Sociology and Health as well as the doctoral program in Public Health at the University of Porto and the doctoral program in Global Public Health (program director), a joint program with University NOVA of Lisbon, financed by the Portuguese Research Foundation (FCT). He was a member of the Scientific Council for Health Sciences Foundation for Science and Technology (2004-12), National Coordinator of the HIV/AIDS Program (2005-11) and member of the Medical Sciences (MED) Scientific Committee of Science Europe (2012-15).

He is currently, member of the Executive Commission of the National Ethical Committee for Clinical Investigation (CEIC), President of the Institute of Public Health, University of Porto, Executive Board Member of ASPHER and Past-President of the International Epidemiological Association (2017-20). He has developed research in national and international projects, in areas such as clinical and perinatal epidemiology, cardiovascular, infectious and cancer diseases, which resulted in (co)authorship of hundreds of scientific publications in international journals.

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Articles

2023
Doetsch J , Almendra R , Severo M , Leão T , Pilot E, Krafft T , Barros H

J Epidemiol Community Health, 2023 Feb 22:jech-2022-219639. doi: 10.1136/jech-2022-219639. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36813545.

2023
Doetsch J , Schlösser C , Barros H , Shaw D, Krafft T, Pilot E

Int J Equity Health, 2023 Jan 5;22(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s12939-022-01806-1.

2022
Doetsch J , Dias V , Lopes I, Redinha R , Barros H

Medical Law Review, 2022 Oct 14;fwac040. doi: 10.1093/medlaw/fwac040. Online ahead of print.

2022
Doetsch J , Leão T , Krafft T , Barros H

The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 2022, 21, 100508 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j. lanepe.2022.100508)

2022
, Ribeiro AI , Marttila A, Stål F , Silva JP , Rydback M, Rashid M , Barros H

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Aug 18;19(16):10292. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191610292.

2022
Teixeira R , Rodrigues C , Moreira C , Barros H

, Teixeira, R., Rodrigues, C., Moreira, C. et al. Machine learning methods to predict attrition in a population-based cohort of very preterm infants. Sci Rep 12, 10587 (2022).

2022
van Meel ER, Mensink-Bout SM, den Dekker HT, Ahluwalia TS, Annesi-Maesano I, Arshad SH, Baïz N , Barros H , von Berg A, Bisgaard H, Bønnelykke K, Carlsson CJ, Casas M, Chatzi L, Chevrier C, Dalmeijer G, Dezateux C, Duchen K, Eggesbø M, van der Ent C, Fantini M, Flexeder C, Frey U, Forastiere F, Gehring U, Gori D, Granell R, Griffiths LJ, Inskip H, Jerzynska J, Karvonen AM, Keil T, Kelleher C, Kogevinas M, Koppen G, Kuehni CE, Lambrechts N, Lau S, Lehmann I, Ludvigsson J, Magnus MC, Mélen E, Mehegan J, Mommers M, Andersen AN, Nystad W, Pedersen ESL, Pekkanen J, Peltola V, Pike KC, de Moira AP, Pizzi C, Polanska K, Popovic M, Porta D, Roberts G, Santos AC, Schultz ES, Standl M, Sunyer J, Thijs C, Toivonen L, Uphoff E, Usemann J, Vafeidi M, Wright J, de Jongste JC, Jaddoe VWV, Duijts L

Eur Respir J, 2022 Apr 29;2102395. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02395-2021. Online ahead of print.

2022
Ribeiro AI , Fraga S , Severo M , Kelly-Irving M, Del Pierre C, Stringhini S, Kivimaki M, Joost S, Guessous I, Severi G, Giles G, Sacerdote C, Vineis P, , Barros H , Lifepath Consortium

Lancet Public Health, Volume 7, Issue 5, May 2022, Pages e447-e457

2022
Costa R , Aubert AM, Seppänen AV, Ådén U, Sarrechia L, Zemlin M, Cuttini M, Männamaa M, Pierrat V, van Heijst A , Barros H , Johnson S, Zeitlin J , SHIPS Research Group

Dev Med Child Neurol, 2022 Mar 17. doi: 10.1111/dmcn.15202. Online ahead of print.

2022
Rodrigues C , Zeitlin J, Zemlin M , Wilson E, Pedersen P , Barros H , Effective Perinatal Intensive Care in Europe (EPICE) Research Group

Matern Child Nutr, 2022 Mar 16;e13347. doi: 10.1111/mcn.13347. Online ahead of print.

2022
Barros H , Baía I , Monjardino T , Pimenta P , Alfredo A , Sorokina A , Domingues R

BMJ Open, 2022 Mar 15;12(3):e052964. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052964.

2022
Gissler M, Durox M, Smith L, Blondel B, Broeders L, Hindori-Mohangoo A, Kearns K, Kolarova R, Loghi M, Rodin U, Szamotulska K, Velebil P, Weber G, Zurriaga O, Zeitlin J; Euro-Peristat Research Network , (...) , Barros H , (...)

Eur J Public Health, 2022 Feb 14;ckac001. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckac001. Online ahead of print.

2022
2022
Dias I , Henriques A , Lopes A , Lemos R , Barros H , Fraga S

J Elder Abuse Negl, 2022 Feb 8;1-15. doi: 10.1080/08946566.2022.2039338. Online ahead of print.

2022
Moreira A , Mendes F , Rama T , Mota D, Silva D , Pádua i , Abreu MCR , Vasconcelos MJ , Farraia M , Paciência I , Cavaleiro Rufo J , Barros R , Padrão P , Moreira P , Seabra D , Barros H , on behalf of the ALERGIAPT Research Group

Porto Biomedical Journal, 2022 Mar-Apr; 7(1): e169. Published online 2022 Feb 8. doi: 10.1097/j.pbj.0000000000000169

2022
Costa J , Meireles P , Rodrigues PNS , Barros H

Infect Dis (Lond), 2022 Feb 7;1-7. doi: 10.1080/23744235.2022.2035429. Online ahead of print.

2022
Rodrigues C , Zeitlin J , Carvalho AR , Gonzaga D , Barros H , Portuguese EPICE (Effective Perinatal Intensive Care in Europe) Network

Early Hum Dev, 2022 Feb;165:105535. doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2021.105535. Epub 2022 Jan 14.

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