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Raquel Duarte

Raquel Duarte

Integrated Member (PhD)

Research Line: L2 - Syndemics, health inequalities and vulnerable populations
Labs: Epidemiology of Mycobacteria Infection, HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections
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Raquel Duarte is a medical doctor specialized in pulmonology with academic training in Public Health and Health Economics. She was Secretary of State for Health of the XXI Portuguese Government.

She is pulmonologist at the Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia / Espinho, Invited Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto and, head of the LAB EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MYCOBACTERIAS INFECTION, VIH AND OTHER SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS, from ITR.

In terms of Internalstional appointments, she was Secretary General, Vice President and recently elected President of the “Europe Region Officers Internalstional Union Against Tuberculosis and LungDiseases”; member of the Disease Network Coordination Committee of the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC); she was president of the tuberculosis group of the European Society for Respiratory Diseases and now elected secretary of “Assembly 10, Respiratory Infections”.

She is national and Internalstional coordinator and co-coordinator of projects in the field of tuberculosis.

She was invited as a consultant in the organization of the regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the North of Portugal as well as coordinator of the group that prepared the country’s deconfinement/opening plan to COVID-19.

Articles

2022
Soares P , Aguiar A , Leite A , Duarte R , Nunes C
Ecological factors associated with areas of high tuberculosis diagnosis delay

Public Health, 2022 Jun 7;208:32-39. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2022.04.010. Online ahead of print.

2022
Aguiar A , Pinto M , Duarte R
A qualitative study on the impact of death during COVID-19: Thoughts and feelings of Portuguese bereaved adults

PLoS One, 2022 Apr 7;17(4):e0265284. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265284. eCollection 2022.

2022
Oliveira, O , Ribeiro AI , Duarte R , Correia-Neves M , Rito T
Intra-urban variation in tuberculosis and community socioeconomic deprivation in Lisbon metropolitan area: a Bayesian approach

Infect Dis Poverty, 2022 Mar 24;11(1):24. doi: 10.1186/s40249-022-00949-1.

2022
Silva T , Aguiar A , Pinto M , Duarte R
The Rise and Fall of SARS-CoV-2 Variants

Acta Medica Portuguesa, 2022 Jan 3;35(1):76-77. doi: 10.20344/amp.17415. Epub 2022 Jan 3.

2022
Migliori GB , Tiberi S , Duarte R
Investigating the response to COVID-19 and understanding severe TB cases: The 2022 Pulmonology TB series

Pulmonology, 2022 Feb 8;S2531-0437(22)00031-9. doi: 10.1016/j.pulmoe.2022.01.018. Online ahead of print.

2022
Aguiar A , Rodrigues I , Migliori GB , Duarte R
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis services

Pulmonology, 2022 Feb 7;S2531-0437(22)00027-7. doi: 10.1016/j.pulmoe.2022.01.015. Online ahead of print.

2022
Tinoco EM, Vasconcelos A, Alves F , Duarte R
Impact of COVID-19 on extrapulmonary TB and the benefit of decentralised TB services

Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, 2022 Feb 1;26(2):178-180. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.21.0675.

2022
Aguiar A , Pinto M , Duarte R
The bad, the ugly and the monster behind the mirror - Food insecurity, mental health and socio-economic determinants

J Psychosom Res, 2022 Jan 20;154:110727. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2022.110727. Online ahead of print.

2022
Aguiar A , Maia I , Duarte R , Pinto M
The other side of COVID-19: Preliminary results of a descriptive study on the COVID-19-related psychological impact and social determinants in Portugal residents

J Affect Disord, 2022 Jan;7:100294. doi: 10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100294. Epub 2021 Dec 18.

2021
Gigante AR , Sousa M , Aguiar A , Pinto M , Gaio R , Duarte R
The impact of COVID-19 on the TB response: data from the field

Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, 2021 Sep 1;25(9):769-771. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.21.0149.

2021
Aguiar A , Pinto M , Duarte R
Psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and social determinants among the Portuguese population: study protocol.

JMIR Res Protoc, 2021 Oct 19;10(10):e28071. doi: 10.2196/28071.

2021
Brazete C , Aguiar A , Furtado I , Duarte R
Thrombotic events and COVID-19 vaccines.

Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, 2021 Sep 1;25(9):701-707. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.21.0298.

2021
Alves A , Aguiar A , Migliori GB , Duarte R
COVID-19 related hospital re-organization and trends in tuberculosis diagnosis and admissions: reflections from Portugal.

Arch Bronconeumol (Engl Ed), 2021 Sep 25. doi: 10.1016/j.arbres.2021.09.005. Online ahead of print.

2021
Barradas P , Mesquita JR , Silva P , Ferreira AS, Silva E, Matas IM, Thomson G, Amorim I , Duarte R , Gomes HC, Monteiro Á , Nascimento MSJ
SARS-CoV-2 and blood donations in Portugal, June-July 2020.

J Med Virol, 2021 Sep 21. doi: 10.1002/jmv.27353. Online ahead of print.

2021
Sentís A, Prats-Uribe A, Peixoto VR, Caylà JA , Gomes M , Sousa S , Duarte R , Carvalho I, Carvalho C
Decline of tuberculosis notification rate in different populations and regions in Portugal, 2010-2017.

Pulmonology, 2021 Sep 17;S2531-0437(21)00158-6. doi: 10.1016/j.pulmoe.2021.08.002. Online ahead of print.

2021
Aguiar A , Pinto M , Alves F , Barbosa P , Monteiro H , Bigotte J , Santos M , Felgueiras Ó , Duarte R
A roadmap for lifting restrictive measures for COVID-19.

Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, Volume 25, Number 9, 1 September 2021, pp. 687-690(4)

2021
Migliori GB, Thong PM, Alffenaar JW, Denholm J, Tadolini M, Alyaquobi F, Blanc FX, Buonsenso D, Cho JG, Ruffo Codecasa L, Danila E , Duarte R , García-García JM, Gualano G, Rendon A, Rossato Silva D, Souleymane MB, Tham SM, Thomas TA, Tiberi S, Udwadia ZF, Goletti D, Centis R, D'Ambrosio L, Sotgiu G, Ong CWM; Global Tube
Gauging the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis services: a global study.

Eur Respir J, 2021 Aug 26;2101786. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01786-2021. Online ahead of print.

2021
Seabra B , Duarte R
Tuberculosis national registries and data on diagnosis delay - Is there room for improvement?

Pulmonology, 2021 Jun 21;S2531-0437(21)00113-6. doi: 10.1016/j.pulmoe.2021.05.004. Online ahead of print.

Books

Book Chapters

Notices/Letters to the Editor

2022
Guerra SS, Seixas E, , Ribeiro AI , Duarte R
Tell me where you went, I may tell who you infected

J Bras Pneumol, 2022 Jun 10;48(4):e20220099. doi: 10.36416/1806-3756/e20220099.

2022
Guglielmetti L, Günther G, Leu C, Cirillo D , Duarte R , Garcia-Basteiro AL, Goletti D, Jankovic M, Kuksa L, Maurer FP, Méchaï F, Tiberi S, van Leth F, Veziris N, Lange C; Study Group on Mycobacteria of the European Society of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESGMYC), European Society of Mycobacteriology (ESM), European Respiratory Society (ERS) and; Tuberculosis Network European Trials group (TBnet).
Rifapentine access in Europe: growing concerns over key tuberculosis treatment component

Eur Respir J, 2022 May 19;59(5):2200388. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00388-2022. Print 2022 May.

Reports