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Value for Health CoLAB is accelerating the paradigm shift to Value-Based Healthcare.
VOH.CoLAB is a non-profit private organization whose mission is to measure value in Health. The founding partners have centralized competencies and resources to create this CoLAB to accelerate the fundamental restructuring of Healthcare delivery towards a paradigm shift to Value-Based Healthcare, in which Citizens’ engagement is essential.
We are recognized as a "Collaborative Laboratory", title by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology since May 2019. Our team gathers multidisciplinary skills from the areas of Data Science, Economy, Digital Health and Health Literacy, to model valuable health pathways throughout the full cycle of care, engaging all stakeholders.
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Consortia
of collaborative research
If your organization has interest in developing research and broaden its international network, we can help in developing applications to national and international grants. We will support the integration of your organization in consortia in which we will also be partners.
We may contribute to develop knowledge areas that are our pillars: outcomes and costs in health, health literacy, citizens’ empowerment and value in health.
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Services
of collaborative research
We can work collaboratively, whether your organization is private or public. We have specialists researchers in different areas of knowledge (data science, digital health, management, economy, health literacy). Our link to Academia allows to develop innovative solutions that are customized accordingly to the needs of each context.
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Our activities combine research and service delivery, due to our mission of transferring knowledge from academia to society. Transdisciplinarity and digital transformation are the disruptive forces that guide Value for Health CoLAB to achieve innovative and valuable results for the society and the Healthcare market.
Our Founding Partners
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NOVA University of Lisbon was founded on the 11th of August 1973. Aiming at innovating in the Portuguese higher education and contributing for social and economic development, digital transformation and the challenges raised by huge amounts of data are under the scope of the NOVA. An evidence of this is VOH.CoLAB creation: a collaborative lab that gathers healthcare experts, social and computer scientists to study, test and validate disruptive healthcare solutions which contribute for better results in Health.
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CUF is a reference company of high quality healthcare in Portugal that, with over 8.900 collaborators, aims at contributing for the development of the country. Across its integrated network of high performance Health Units, CUF is looking for technology partners and value measurement experts to help providing patient-centered healthcare and engaging patients into self-management of their health.
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Vodafone Portugal is a global telecommunications operator. Leader in innovation, it reaches around 3 million households and businesses with its fiber network and 4.7 million customers with its mobile network. Vodafone aims at testing and validating new added-value connectivity products and services which help overcoming inequalities in access to Healthcare and improving citizens' quality of life.
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The Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research (Fraunhofer Portugal), is a non-profit private organization founded by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the largest organization for applied research in Europe. Focused on the development of digital and innovative solutions, Fraunhofer Portugal beliefs that technology allows citizens to transparently measure value in Health.
Our Team
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Board of Directors
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Professor José Fragata, MD PhD
Full Professor | NOVA Medical School
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Liliana Ferreira, PhD
Director of Executive Board | Fraunhofer Portugal
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Catarina Gouveia
Executive Board Member | CUF
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Henrique Sacadura Fonseca
Executive Board Member | Vodafone Portugal
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Professor José Paulo Santos
Vice Dean for the Scientific Affairs | NOVA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Daily Operations
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Ana Rita Londral, PhD
Executive & Scientific Director
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Luísa Lima, MBA
Head of Operations
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Salomé Azevedo, MSc.
Head of Digital Health
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Federico Guede, PhD
Head of Data Science
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Pedro Dias, MSc.
Software Developer
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Francisco von Hafe, MSc.
Economist
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Diana Delgado, PhD
Pre-Award Grants Manager
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António Ramiro, MSc.
Product Manager
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Paulo Lino, MSc.
Graphic Designer
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Marta Aguiar, MSc.
Office Assistant
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Sara Branco, MSc.
Project Manager & Business Developer
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Liliana Freitas, MSc.
Decision Scientist
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Ana Paula Giordano, PhD
Behavioural Scientist
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Eduarda Oliosi, MSc.
Biomedical Scientist
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Rodrigo Antunes, MSc.
Software Developer
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Soraia Ferreira, PhD
Sports Scientist
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Catarina Silva, MSc.
UX/UI Designer for Digital Health
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Azita Kloever, MSc.
Behavioural Economics Scientist
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Yash Wagle, MSc.
Junior Economics Scientist
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Advisory Board
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Helena Canhão, MD PhD
President of Advisory Board
Dean at NOVA Medical School -
Helena Serra, PhD
Directress of the CICS:NOVA FCSH (Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences)
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Rute Costa, PhD
Associate Professor (tenured) with aggregation (CLUNL – NOVA FCSH)
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João Magalhães, PhD
Full Professor at NOVA School of Sciences and Technology
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Associated Research Units
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CHRC
Comprehensive Health Research Center
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Nova CLUNL
Linguistics Research Centre of NOVA University Lisbon
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CICS.NOVA
Research Centre for Social Sciences
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NOVALINCS
Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics
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LIBPHYS
Laboratory for Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering and Radiation Physics
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NOVA SBE
NOVA School of Business & Economics
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Our Mission
To help people and organizations measuring value in Health, empowering everyone to take the right decisions.
Our Values
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Contribute to a value-based Health Global Network
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Defend and respect the citizen's voice
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Transfer knowledge
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Promote Health Literacy
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Work for the sustainability of the healthcare systems
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Innovate to add value in Health
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Ensure data integrity, security and trust