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With a background in psychology and public health, Adriana Curado has devoted the last decade of her career to advancing harm reduction initiatives within a HIV community-based organization, GAT – Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos. Over the course of several projects, she has designed and implemented interventions specifically tailored to address high-risk drug use, with a focus on promoting the health of vulnerable populations. Adriana Curado is currently involved in community research efforts, actively collaborating on projects with academic institutions. Her role goes beyond traditional research activities, as she also supports colleagues in implementing small-scale research projects and effectively disseminating their results at scientific events.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Adriana Cunha Curado

Citation names

  • Curado, Adriana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B415-89DB-2284
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6405-5586

Email addresses

  • adriana.curado@gatportugal.org (Professional)

Addresses

  • Avenida de Paris, 4 - 1ºDto., 1000-228, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Substance Abuse
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Public and Environmental Health
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Infectious Diseases
  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2025
Concluded
 Curso Revisões Sistemáticas com Meta-Análise: ferramentas de apoio (Outros)
Escola Superior de Saúde da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa, Portugal
2024
Concluded
 Primeiros Socorros Psicológicos (Outros)
Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses, Portugal
2024
Concluded
 Fundamentos de Data Science na Saúde: aplicações com R (Outros)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2024
Concluded
 Folha de Cálculo: funcionalidades avançadas (Outros)
Centro para a Economia e Inovação Social, Portugal
2020
Concluded
 A Droga na Europa: oferta, procura e políticas públicas (Diploma de especialização)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2019
Concluded
 Suporte Básico de Vida e Desfibrilhação Automática Externa (Outros)
Administração Regional de Saúde de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo IP, Portugal
2011/10/01 - 2014/08/30
Attended
 International Health (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Major in Health policy and development
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
2003/12/19
Concluded
 Psychology (Licenciatura)
Major in Clinical psychology
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
Affiliation

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2012/10/01 - Current Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal
Projects

Other

Designation Funders
2026/01 - 2027/06 IberoChemCare+: Generating Evidence for Better Practices: Chemsex, Psychosocial Impact, and Patient-Doctor Communication in People Living with HIV in Spain and Portugal
FUNSEISIDA 01/2026
Researcher
Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor, Spain

Sociedad Española Interdisciplinaria del SIDA, Spain

GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal
Gilead Sciences Europe Ltd
Ongoing
2024/10 - 2026/09 NEHRD - NextGen Harm Reduction: Tackling the Challenge of Emerging Psychoactive Drugs
ID KA220-VET-241FD6C6
Researcher
GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal
 Erasmus Plus
Ongoing
2024/06 - 2025/05 REBOOT – Rebooting Public Policies for People Who Use Drugs
101070910
Principal investigator
R3 - Riscos Reduzidos em Rede, Portugal
Concluded
2023/09 - 2024/08 Tobacco harm reduction: assessing the acceptability of safer nicotine products among vulnerable populations in Lisbon
THRSP
Scholar
GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal
 Knowledge-Action-Change
Concluded
2022 - 2023 Exploratory case study of Nepalese People Who Use Drugs attending a harm reduction centre in Lisbon
nepalpwud
Principal investigator
GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal
 GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos
Concluded
2020/05 - 2022/10 Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic to problematic drug use and Harm Reduction
CEDH-B-COVID-04
Researcher
GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal
 Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Concluded
2019 - 2021 Evaluating the health and social impact of Portugal’s first mobile drug consumption room on clients and their communities
pcvm
Principal investigator
GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal
 Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
2017 - 2020 Hepatitis C Prevalence Study in Injection Drug Use Settings
hcvpwId
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Saúde Ambiental, Portugal

GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal
Concluded
2018 - 2019 EUROSIDER project: A European Safer Injecting Drug Use Education
758523
Researcher
SESSTIM UMR 1252, France

GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal
Commission of the European Communities
Concluded
2017 - 2017 Reach & Link: documenting barriers to care and treatment for hepatitis C among people who use drugs
RL17
Researcher
GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal
 European AIDS Treatment Group
2016 - 2016 Ageing and drug use: harm reduction perspectives and user voices
aghr
Researcher
GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos
Concluded
2013 - 2014 Pilot project for crack cocaine smokers in Lisbon: an acceptability study
202301
Researcher
GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Curado, Adriana; Salazar, Maria Luísa. Corresponding author: Curado, Adriana. "Da invisibilidade à presença: estudo exploratório com pessoas nepalesas que usam drogas em Lisboa". In Comportamentos Aditivos e Margens. Exclusão, visibilidade, intervenção, 19-32. Lisboa, Portugal: Instituto para os Comportamentos Aditivos e as Dependências, I.P., 2025.
    Published
  2. Curado, Adriana; Belo, Elsa; Fuertes, Ricardo. "20 Anos depois, o que estamos a aprender com as salas de consumo assistido". In Comportamentos Aditivos. Perspetivas e desafios, 79-88. Lisboa, Portugal: Serviço de Intervenção nos Comportamentos Aditivos e nas Dependências, 2021.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Pinto de Oliveira, A; Gautier, D; Nunes, P; Correia, V; Leite, Â; Taylor, H; Curado, A. "First year of implementation of a drug consumption room in Lisbon: the client’s profile". Paper presented in 16th World Congress on Public Health 2020, 2020.
    Published • 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa166.403
  2. Roux, P; Magen, C; Stranz, R; Schatz, E; Verdes, L; Curado, A; Tsiakou, T; Roy, E; Carrieri, P. "Implementation research to evaluate an educational intervention for people who inject drugs". Paper presented in 12th European Public Health Conference Building bridges for solidarity and public health, Marseille, 2019.
    Published • 10.1093/eurpub/ckz186.112
Conference poster
  1. Curado, Adriana; Leite, Ângela; Pires, Joana; Caldas, João. "Drug Consumption Rooms and Peer Involvement: Experiences from Lisbon". Paper presented in International Conference on Health and Hepatitis Care in Substance Users (INHSU), 2022.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.17683.13601
  2. Canêdo, Joana; Ferreira, Magda ; MELO, ANA LUISA S.; Dias, Claudia; Melo, Teresa; Lewandoski, Larissa; Curado, Adriana. "MANAS. From a mutual support group to artistic and holistic practices - on the road to a new service in the city of Lisbon". Paper presented in Fast Track Cities, 2021.
  3. Pires, Joana; Leite, Ângela; Curado, Adriana; Caldas, João; Cânedo, Joana; Meira, Luís. "Preliminary results of educational sessions during consumption". Paper presented in Fast Track Cities, 2021.
  4. Curado, Adriana; Gautier, Diana; Nunes, Patrícia; Correia, Vítor; Leite, Â.; Taylor, Hannah; Fuertes, Ricardo. "Programa de Consumo Vigiado Móvel em Lisboa: resultados do primeiro ano de implementação". Paper presented in 12as Jornadas de Atualização em Doenças Infeciosas Jornadas do Hospital de Curry Cabral, 2020.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.32660.83846
  5. Simões, Daniel; Freitas, Rosa; Rocha, Miguel; Curado, Adriana; Silva, Diana; Rojas, Jesus; Aguiar, Ana; Barros, Henrique. "Scaling up Standards, testing and linkage to care: Implementation of a Portuguese Community-Based screening Network". Paper presented in AIDS 2016, 2016.
  6. Luz, Marta; Santa Maria, João; Pinto, Renato; Ferreira, Magda; Silva, Diana; Curado, Adriana; Silva, Joana; et al. "Referenciação e adesão aos serviços de tratamento da infeção por VIH e hepatites virais: estudo de caso sobre a articulação entre o serviço social e a mediação de pares num centro de redução de danos". Paper presented in 10ªs Jornadas de Actualização em Doenças Infecciosas do Hospital de Curry Cabral, 2016.
  7. Simões, Daniel; Curado, Adriana; Rocha, Miguel. "Improving quality on HIV prevention: the Portuguese experience". Paper presented in Quality Action Conference, 2016.
    10.13140/RG.2.1.4566.1843
  8. Fuertes, Ricardo; Curado, Adriana; Silva, Diana; Santa Maria, João; Luz, Marta; Ferreira, Magda; Freitas, Rosa; Mendão, Luís. "Harm Reduction and HIV/HCV responses for several populations: the challenge of integrating responses". Paper presented in Lisbon Addictions 2015, 2015.
  9. Curado, Adriana; Silva, Diana; Fuertes, Ricardo; Santa Maria, João; Luz, Marta; Tavares, Edna; Simões, Daniel; Mendão, Luís. "IN-Mouraria: Centro de rastreio comunitário dirigido a populações vulneráveis". Paper presented in Congresso Nacional VIH, Doenças Infecciosas e Microbiologia Clínica, 2014.
  10. Curado, Adriana; Santa Maria, João; Brás, Maria João; Barroso, Catarina; Silva, Diana; Luz, Marta; Clavijo, Danae; et al. "A pilot harm reduction programme for crack cocaine smokers in Lisbon: an acceptability study". Paper presented in 2nd European Harm Reduction Conference, 2014.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.16857.38242
Journal article
  1. Adebisi, Y.A.; Lungu, S.; Curado, A.; Oke, G.; Yach, D.. "Understanding research gaps and priorities for tobacco harm reduction in low-income and middle-income countries". Ethics, Medicine and Public Health 33 (2025): 101117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101117.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101117
  2. Vale Pires, Cristiana; Curado, Adriana; Fuertes, Ricardo; Carvalho, Maria Carmo; Valente, Helena. Corresponding author: Vale Pires, Cristiana. "City-level drug policies in Portugal: the COVID-19 pandemic as an analyzer of harm reduction responsiveness in Porto and Lisbon". Harm Reduction Journal 22 1 (2025): https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-025-01179-y.
    Open access • Published • 10.1186/s12954-025-01179-y
  3. Taylor, Hannah; Leite, Ângela; Gautier, Diana; Nunes, Patrícia; Pires, Joana; Curado, Adriana. "Community perceptions surrounding Lisbon's first mobile drug consumption room". Dialogues in Health 1 (2022): 100031. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dialog.2022.100031.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.dialog.2022.100031
  4. Curado, Adriana; Nogueira, Paulo Jorge; Virgolino, Ana; Santa Maria, João; Mendão, Luís; Furtado, Cristina; Antunes, Francisco. "Hepatitis C antibody prevalence and behavioral correlates in people who inject drugs attending harm reduction services in Lisbon, Portugal". Frontiers in Public Health 10 (2022): https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.952909.
    Open access • Published • 10.3389/fpubh.2022.952909
  5. Roux, Perrine; Donadille, Cécile; Magen, Carine; Schatz, Eberhard; Stranz, Richard; Curado, Adriana; Tsiakou, Tania; et al. "Implementation and evaluation of an educational intervention for safer injection in people who inject drugs in Europe: a multi-country mixed-methods study". International Journal of Drug Policy 87 (2021): 102992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102992.
    Published • 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102992
  6. Fuertes, R.; Belo, E.; Merendeiro, C.; Curado, A.; Gautier, D.; Neto, A.; Taylor, H.. "Lisbon’s COVID 19 response: harm reduction interventions for people who use alcohol and other drugs in emergency shelters". Harm Reduction Journal 18 1 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85099751767&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/s12954-021-00463-x
  7. Taylor, Hannah; Curado, Adriana; Tavares, Joana; Oliveira, Miguel; Gautier, Diana; Maria, João Santa. "Prospective client survey and participatory process ahead of opening a mobile drug consumption room in Lisbon". Harm Reduction Journal 16 1 (2019): https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-019-0319-1.
    Open access • Published • 10.1186/s12954-019-0319-1
Newspaper article
  1. Curado, Adriana; Fuertes, Ricardo. "“Um mundo livre de drogas”, até quando?", Jornal Público, 2016, https://www.publico.pt/2016/04/06/sociedade/opiniao/um-mundo-livre-de-drogas-ate-quando-1728045.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/06/21 Tobacco harm reduction: Who else should be in the room? Global Forum on Nicotine 2025
Global Forum on Nicotine Limited (Warsaw, Poland)
2024/10/23 Bridging Voices: a community initiative for tobacco harm reduction in Lisbon, Portugal Lisbon Addictions 2024
ICAD, EUDA (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/11/25 Drug consumption rooms in Lisbon: lessons learned Lisbon Addictions 2022
SICAD, EMCDDA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/07/01 Lisbon’s DCR implementation Second European Symposium on Drug Consumption Rooms
Council of Europe (Strasbourg, France)
2019/12/06 Supervised Drug Consumption Facilities (SCDFs) to Instill Harm Reduction and Social Cohesion at Local Level: Workshop on Communicaton Solidify Final Conference
EMCDDA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/10/23 Acceptability and willingness to use a Mobile Drug Consumption Room in Lisbon Lisbon Addictions 2019
SICAD, EMCDDA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/11/22 EUROSIDER project: A European Safer Injecting Drug Use Education: update of the implementation in Portugal 4th European Harm Reduction Conference
C-EHRN (Bucharest, Romania)
2018/11/21 Implementation of drug consumption rooms in Lisbon, Portugal 4th European Harm Reduction Conference
C-EHRN (Bucharest, Romania)
2018/09/19 Supervised injecting sites, drug consumption rooms and overdose prevention: Where do we stand in 2018? 7th International Symposium on Hepatitis Care in Substance Users
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/09/18 Hep C testing: experiences from a harm reduction centre in Lisbon 2nd HEP-C Community Summit
C-EHRN (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/10/25 Documenting barriers to access HCV care and treatment: a peer-led research Lisbon Addictions 2017
SICAD, EMCDDA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/04/05 Harm reduction, peer work and advocacy: needs and expectations 1st International workshop Joint Action on HIV and Co-Infection Prevention and Harm Reduction HA-REACT
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
2017/02/07 A experiência de um centro de redução de danos na prevenção, rastreio e acesso ao tratamento da infeção pelo VIH e hepatites virais VI Encontro CRI Lisboa Ocidental
(Sintra, Portugal)
2016/04/01 Ageing and HIV: Harm reduction perspectives Conference Ageing with HIV
EATG (Berlin, Germany)
2015/09/25 QUALITY ACTION: Improving Quality in HIV Prevention Lisbon Addictions 2015
SICAD, EMCDDA (Lisboa, Portugal)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2010 - Current Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses Full member

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2025/09/25 - 2025/09/25 GFN.TV Interviews | OPTIONS MATTER | Lisbon’s Vaping Project for Marginalized Groups Tobacco Harm Reduction
2025/01/30 - 2025/01/30 Has this country won the war on drugs? (France 24) Drug Policy
2024/11/24 - 2024/11/24 HARM REDUCTION IN ACTION | Featuring Adriana Curado #GFNInsights Tobacco Harm Reduction