Research Group: Health for All
Thematic Lin: TL1 – Preventive Medicine & Societal Challenges
Hub: Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Research Areas: Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Bodily Injury Assessment, Personal Injury Assessment, Child and Youth Abuse, Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence
Updated on 16/10/2020
Teresa Magalhães is a researcher at CINTESIS, working in the research group Health for All of the Thematic Line (LT1) – Preventive Medicine & Societal Challenges.
She has a degree in Medicine (1986), a Ph.D. in Social Medicine (1997), and an Aggregation in Medical Sociology (2004) from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP). She is a Forensic Medicine specialist (1997), has competence in Management of Health Units, in Evaluation of Bodily Injury and Expert Evaluation from the Social Security and from the Portuguese Order of Doctors. She was the director of the Northern delegation of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (INMLCF) and an adviser to the Medico-Legal Council (2001-2014).
Her vast expert activity includes thousands of forensic examinations. She has published more than two hundred articles and dozens of book chapters. She has received the Medal of Merit of the Mediterranean Academy of Forensic Sciences, the Medal of Merit of the Forensic Academy of Legal Medicine, and the Mention of Merit for the Contribution to the Development of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP).
She is currently a Guest Associate Professor at FMUP, a Full Professor at the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde – CESPU, and the president of the Portuguese Society for the Study of Abused and Neglected Children as well as Portugal’s representative to the European Council of Legal Medicine.
TITLE: Environmental determinants of population health in urban settings. A systematic review
AUTHORS: Teresa Magalhaes; Joana Madureira; Ana Sofia Mendes; Analia Torres; Joao Paulo Teixeira; Monica Duarte Oliveira;
SOURCE: BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, VOLUME: 20, ISSUE: 1, PUBLISHED: 2020
TITLE: Abuse of Licit and Illicit Psychoactive Substances in the Workplace: Medical, Toxicological, and Forensic Aspects
AUTHORS: Ricardo Dinis-Oliveira; Teresa Magalhaes;
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, VOLUME: 9, ISSUE: 3, PUBLISHED: 2020
TITLE: Evolution and Analysis of Cultural and Cognitive Factors Related With Domestic Violence Against Women
AUTHORS: Maria Joao V Vidal Alves; Celina Manita; Ines Morais Caldas; Elena Fernandez Martinez; Angelica Gomes da Silva; Teresa Magalhaes;
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE, VOLUME: 34, ISSUE: 3, PUBLISHED: 2019
TITLE: A Comparison Among Three Multiplex Y-STR Profiling Kits for Sexual Assault Cases
AUTHORS: Ferreira Silva, B; Fonseca Cardoso, M; Porto, MJ; Teresa Magalhaes ; Caine, L;
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES, VOLUME: 63, ISSUE: 6, PUBLISHED: 2018
TITLE: Interviews of Children in a Portuguese Special Judicial Procedure
AUTHORS: Carlos Eduardo Peixoto; Raquel Veludo Fernandes; Telma Sousa Almeida; Julia Marina Silva; David La Rooy; Catarina Ribeiro; Teresa Magalhaes; Michael E Lamb;
SOURCE: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES & THE LAW, VOLUME: 35, ISSUE: 3, PUBLISHED: 2017