Carla Pires
Research Center for Biosciences and Health Technologies. Universidade Lusófona. Lisboa.
Portugal

Carla Pires is Professor at Universidade Lusófona's Research Center for Biosciences and Health Technologies, Portugal, and invited collaborator Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, and Laboratory of Phonetics and Lisbon Baby Lab. Her research interests include health communication, social pharmacy, pharmacy practice, and other. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4526-0271

Dinah Duarte
Research Center for Biosciences and Health Technologies. Universidade Lusófona. Lisboa.
Portugal

Afonso Cavaco
Departamento de Sócio-Farmácia. Faculdade de Farmácia. Universidade de Lisboa. Lisboa.
Portugal

Afonso Cavaco is PhD degree in Pharmacy Practice and Policy from the University of London (UK) in 2006. In 2007, he was a post-doctoral Fulbright Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health (USA), working with Prof. Debra Roter in Health Communication. Afonso holds presently an Associate Professor position at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon. He is responsible for undergraduate social pharmacy teaching as well as post-graduate courses (MSc and Doctoral Programs). He has more than 50 original full-papers published in indexed scientific journals with impact factor and, amongst other work, he has been the supervisor of 14 Master and 6 PhD students. In 2009, he was awarded with the Astra-Zeneca research grant. He was invited to be the course leader on health communication and qualitative research at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UNESP – São Paulo, Brazil. Other on-going international collaborations include Turkish (Ankara) and Polish (Lublin) universities.