Selected research projects I am currently working on:

THRIVE (Teenage mental Health Research Inquiries Via E-communties):

• Thrive 1: Dialogical research and adolescents living with affective disorders
• Thrive 2: Narrative ethics and young women living with anxiety
• Thrive 3: Coping mechanisims among young people living with depression

• Adolescents narratives of mental distress via dialogical research 
• Meaning, purpose and sense making when living with mental conditions and complex medicines regimes among adolescents and young people
• Ethical dilemmas linked to treatment for mental conditions among adolescents and young adults

I am a social scientist and a public health professional working for the WHO Collaborating Centre in the Patient Perspective on Medicine use (Social and Clinical Pharmacy Research Group).  

In 2013 I received my PhD in Health Sciences from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. I also hold a Master in International Cooperation for Development from Complutense University, Madrid and a Post-graduate in International Politics from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Prior to join academia, I worked for 10 years for the European Commission (EuropeAid) in South America, Africa and Asia, and for the World Health Organization – Regional Office for Europe in projects focused on improving maternal, children and adolescent health.

With my current research, I focus on listening to adolescents voices and their perceptions of mental health and well-being. I am specially interested in the role that narratives ethics play in constructing meaning and developing copying mechanisms. I am currently studying the Resonance Theory (Rosa 2016), Burnout Society (Han 2017) and the Theory of Self-connection (Klussman 2020) to inform my research inquiries.  

PhD in Health Sciences (2013)

Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

European Master in Public Health, MPH (2008)

University of Copenhagen, Denmark and French School of Public Health, Rennes, France

Post-Graduate Studies in International Politics (2006)

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

2021-2019

- Pharmaceutical Policy, Economics and Ethics course. Course responsible and teacher of the Ethics section. 

- Transparency and Trustworthiness in Drug Development - The ethics of Drug Regulation: Teacher

- Contemporary Social Pharmacy - an innovation-based course: Course responsible

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