Education
- Ph.D, Clinical and Health Services Research, 2025 (Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto)
- M.D., Medicine, 2020 (Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto)
Interests
- Health Technology Assessment
- Evidence Synthesis
- Causal Inference
- Bayesian Statistics
- Data Analysis with R
- Planetary Health
Rafael José Vieira (MD, PhD) is an Invited Assistant at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto and a researcher at RISE-Health (Health Research Network). He obtained his Medical Degree (2020) and his PhD in Clinical and Health Services Research (2025) from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto.
He bridges his medical expertise and data science skills to inform and shape evidence-based health policies. His work focuses on health technology assessment, with a strong foundation in evidence synthesis, health economics, clinical guidelines, and biostatistics. He teaches at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, lecturing on these topics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
He has authored or co-authored over 50 scientific publications, with an h-index of 12. He is a biostatistics reviewer for The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, and regularly acts as an ad hoc reviewer for several other scientific journals.
He is an active member of the GRADE Working Group, being particularly active in the GRADE Planetary Health and GRADE Artificial Intelligence interest groups. He is also a member of the Portuguese GRADE Network and of the Porto Associate Center of Cochrane Portugal.