creating a
healthier future
Luísa Melo
Team Member
I've a degree in Communication and International Journalism and a Post-Graduation in Science and Communication. I started my career in Radio and then moved to the press. I was a journalist at the daily newspaper «Diário de Notícias» in the areas of Education, Science and Technology and Health for eight years, commentator at the «TSF radio» on Education issues and columnist in the Education newspaper «A Página da Educação». I teached Science and Education Journalism at the Oporto Journalism School for a year and teached Communication and Public Relations at a professional school for eigth years. In 2000 I went to East Timor for almost two months as a special envoy from the daily newspaper «Diário de Notícias». In 2001 I changed to the online journalism as Coordinator in the Oporto's office of the online newspaper «PortugalDiário», then as Chief editor and after that as Deputy Director of IOL website. After, I launched and made the management of social networks of the IOL and TVI universe. I´m at ASPIC - Portuguese Association of Cancer Research as Coomunication Coordinator and at Ipatimup as Project Manager since 2013. I work for i3S since June 2015.