The Technical-Scientific Council of the School of Health (ESSa) is the collegiate body responsible for the School’s scientific policy, and its responsibilities include:

• to review the School’s scientific activity plan;
• to issue an opinion on the creation, transformation or extinction of IPB organisational units;
• to deliberate on the allocation of teaching duties;
• to issue an opinion on the creation of study programmes and to approve the study plans of the courses offered;
• to propose or issue an opinion on the awarding of honorary titles or distinctions, on the establishment of academic prizes, and on the conclusion of agreements and international partnerships;
• to propose the composition of the juries for academic examinations and contests;
• to carry out the acts provided for by law relating to the academic and research career and to the recruitment of teaching and research staff;
• to approve the accreditation of certified training and professional experience;
• to propose the number of places available for each course;
• to issue an opinion on the recognition of degrees and diploms;
• to issue an opinion on requests for equivalence to scholarship holder status, scholarships, exemptions from teaching duties, and integration into research units and research teams.

President
Olívia Rodrigues Pereira, Director of ESSa

Vice-President
Isabel Cristina Jornalo Freire Pinto

Elected Members
Adília Maria Pires Da Silva Fernandes
Ana Maria Geraldes Pereira
André Filipe Morais Pinto Novo
Andrea Luísa Fernandes Afonso
António José Madeira Nogueira
Carina De Fátima Rodrigues
Carlos Pires Magalhães
Celeste Da Cruz Meirinho Antão
Eugénia Maria Garcia Jorge Anes
Isabel Cristina Jornalo Freire Pinto
José Pedro Dos Santos Neves
Josiana Adelaide Vaz
Juliana Almeida Souza
Leonel São Romão Preto
Luís Miguel Fernandes Nascimento
Manuel Alberto Morais Brás
Mara Sofia Rodrigues
Maria Gorete De Jesus Baptista
Maria José Almendra Rodrigues Gomes
Matilde Delmina Da Silva Martins
Tânia Cristina De São Pedro Pires
Telma Filipa Rodrigues Pereira Pires
Teresa Isaltina Gomes Correia
Xavier Taboada Costa