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Liliana Freitas is a Decision Scientist at Value for Health CoLAB, a PhD candidate of the the Engineering and Management PhD program of Instituto Superior Técnico (Universidade de Lisboa), and a researcher in the DECISING - DECISion science and management engineerING group at the Centre for Management Studies of Instituto Superior Técnico (CEG-IST). Liliana completed her MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2015 at IST and, since then, she has been actively involved in research, with the last research project she participated being the FCT MEDI-VALUE (Developing HTA tools to consensualise MEDIcal devices' VALUE through multicriteria decision analysis), a project developed together with the Portuguese HTA Agency (Infarmed) and three hospitals, that aims at advancing HTA literature by developing tools to assess the multidimensional value of Medical Devices. Her research interests focus on the development of management science tools applied to health, especially in decision analysis following multicriteria value modelling and socio-technical approaches, Health Technology Assessment and Behavioural Operational Research. Liliana co-authors 4 articles in scientific journals, 3 book chapters and 1 book.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Liliana Andreia Fernandes de Freitas

Citation names

  • Freitas, Liliana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B911-6E2A-9ECC
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9513-2476

Email addresses

  • liliana.freitas@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
  • liliana.freitas@vohcolab.org (Professional)

Addresses

  • Instituto Superior Técnico, Centro de Estudos de Gestão do IST. Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
  • Value for Health CoLAB, Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, 15, 2D, 1050-115, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Business and Management

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/09/12 - 2024/11/30
Ongoing
 Engenharia e Gestão (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2013/09/01 - 2015/12/01
Concluded
 Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado)
Major in Clinical Engineering
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Explaining variability in surgical decision-making: Developing qualitative and quantitative models to characterize surgeons´ choice of treatments" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
2010/09/01 - 2015/06/26
Concluded
 Engenharia Biomédica (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
 13
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution		 Employer
2024/01/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Value for Health CoLAB, Portugal
2016/01/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto Superior Técnico Centro de Estudos de Gestão, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/12 - 2020/11 MEDI-VALUE: Developing HTA tools to consensualise MEDIcal devices’ VALUE through multicriteria decision analysis
PTDC/EGE-OGE/29699/2017
Researcher
Instituto Superior Técnico Centro de Estudos de Gestão, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016/01/01 - 2018/03/31 Shaping EUROpean policies to promote HEALTH equitY
643398
Researcher
Instituto Superior Técnico Centro de Estudos de Gestão, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Santana, Paula (ed.). Atlas of population health in European Union regions. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra. 2017.
    Published • 10.14195/978-989-26-1463-2
Book chapter
  1. Alvarenga, António; Bana e Costa, Carlos A.; Freitas, Liliana; Oliveira, Mónica D.; Santos, Maria L.; Rodrigues, Teresa C.; Vieira, Ana. "Building the EURO-HEALTHY scenarios to understand which driving forces may play a role in the evolution of population health inequalities in Europe". In Promoting population health and equity in Europe: from evidence to policy, edited by Paula Santana, 88-94. Coimbra, Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2017.
    Published
  2. Bana e Costa, Carlos A.; Freitas, Liliana; Oliveira, Mónica D.; Rodrigues, Teresa C.; Vieira, Ana. "Devising and testing a novel methodology for the evaluation of policies under European population health scenarios". In Promoting population health and equity in Europe: from evidence to policy, edited by Paula Santana, 85-87. Coimbra, Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2017.
    Published
  3. Bana e Costa, Carlos A.; Freitas, Liliana; Oliveira, Mónica D.; Rodrigues, Teresa C.; Vieira, Ana. "Using the MACBETH socio-technical methodological approach to build the EURO-HEALTHY PHI". In Promoting population health and equity in Europe: from evidence to policy, edited by Paula Santana, 71-77. Coimbra, Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2017.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Freitas, Liliana; Beatriz Coelho; Teresa Cipriano Rodrigues; Hugo Quintino; Mónica D. Oliveira. "A socio-technical approach for multicriteria evaluation of emerging biomarkers in hospital settings". Paper presented in EURO 2022 - 32nd European Conference on Operational Research, Espoo, 2022.
    Published
  2. Oliveira, Mónica D.; Coelho, Beatriz; Afonso, Susana; Freitas, Liliana; Quintino, Hugo; Mascarenhas, Edgar; Teresa Cipriano Rodrigues; Vieira, Ana. "Can multicriteria decision analysis assist hospital-based HTA of medical devices? Results from two case studies developed in Portuguese hospitals". Paper presented in ORAHS 2022 - 48th annual meeting of the EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services, Bergamo, 2022.
    Published
  3. Freitas, Liliana; Ana C.L. Vieira; Mónica D. Oliveira; Helena Monteiro; Cláudia Santos; Carlos Bana e Costa. "Which value aspects are relevant for the evaluation of distinct types of medical devices? A Web-Delphi process to explore the views of health stakeholders in Portugal". Paper presented in 17ª Conferência Nacional de Economia da Saúde, Lisbon, 2021.
    Published
  4. Mónica D. Oliveira; Teresa Cipriano Rodrigues; Freitas, Liliana; Ana C.L. Vieira; Klára Dimitrovová; João Bana e Costa; Aris Angelis; Panos Kanavos; Carlos Bana e Costa. "Designing and testing the IMPACT HTA socio-technical framework to assist HTA agencies in the multicriteria evaluation of new medicines on a common basis". Paper presented in 17ª Conferência Nacional de Economia da Saúde, Lisbon, 2021.
    Published
  5. Freitas, Liliana; Ana C.L. Vieira; Mónica D. Oliveira; Carlos Bana e Costa. "Developing behavioural research in Web-Delphi processes: results from a real-world Delphi experiment in Health Technology Assessment". Paper presented in 17ª Conferência Nacional de Economia da Saúde, Lisbon, 2021.
    Published
  6. Freitas, Liliana; Ana C.L. Vieira; Mónica D. Oliveira; Carlos Bana e Costa. "The effect of disaggregating summary statistics in Web-Delphi processes: results from a real-world Delphi experiment". Paper presented in EURO 2021 - 31st European Conference on Operational Research, Athens (online), 2021.
    Published
  7. Freitas, Liliana; Ana C.L. Vieira; Mónica D. Oliveira; Carlos Bana e Costa. "The effect of disaggregating summary statistics in Web-Delphi processes: results from a real-world Delphi experiment". Paper presented in ORAHS 2021 Operational Research Applied to Health Services, online, 2021.
    Published
  8. Freitas, Liliana; Vieira, Ana; Mónica D. Oliveira; Carlos Bana e Costa. "Combining behavioural health economics with Delphi processes: Developing new tools to enable the collection of stakeholders' views in policy and HTA contexts". Paper presented in 16ª Conferência Nacional de Economia da Saúde, Lisbon, 2019.
    Published
  9. Freitas, Liliana; Vieira, Ana; Mónica D. Oliveira; Carlos Bana e Costa. "Embedding behavioural OR within Delphi knowledge construction processes in health settings". Paper presented in ORAHS 2019 Operational Research Applied to Health Services, Karlsruhe, 2019.
    Published
  10. Freitas, Liliana; Vieira, Ana; Mónica D. Oliveira; Carlos Bana e Costa. "Embedding behavioural OR within Delphi knowledge construction processes in health settings". Paper presented in IO2019 - XX Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, Tomar, 2019.
    Published
  11. Freitas, Liliana; Mónica D. Oliveira; Cabral Braga, Teresa; Coutinho, João; Mendes de Almeida, José C.; Bana e Costa, Carlos A.. "Towards improved surgical decision-making: A multimethodology to understand variability in surgeons' choice of treatments and to build a decision support model". Paper presented in 15ª Conferência Nacional de Economia da Saúde, Coimbra, 2017.
    Published
  12. Alvarenga, António; Vieira, Ana; Freitas, Liliana; Mónica D. Oliveira; Bana e Costa, Carlos A.. "A novel participatory approach to scenario building: application to the evolution of population health inequalities in Europe". Paper presented in ORAHS 2017 Operational Research Applied to Health Services, Bath, 2017.
    Published
  13. Alvarenga, António; Vieira, Ana; Freitas, Liliana; Mónica D. Oliveira; Bana e Costa, Carlos A.. "A novel participatory approach to scenario building: application to the evolution of population health inequalities in Europe". Paper presented in XVIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, Valença, 2017.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Oliveira, Mónica D.; Coelho, Beatriz; Afonso, Susana; Freitas, Liliana; Pereira, Carla; Quintino, Hugo; Mascarenhas, Edgar; Teresa Cipriano Rodrigues; Vieira, Ana. "Can multicriteria decision analysis assist hospital-based HTA of medical devices? Results from two case studies developed in Portuguese hospitals". Paper presented in IO 2022 - XXII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, 2022.
  2. Freitas, Liliana; Vieira, Ana; Oliveira, Mónica D.. "A-HTA: Advancing multicriteria approaches and methods for Health Technology Assessment of medical devices". Paper presented in RedeSaúde - Universidade de Lisboa, 2021.
  3. Freitas, Liliana. "Developing behavioural research in Web-Delphi processes: results from a real-world Delphi experiment in Health Technology Assessment". Paper presented in PhD Open Days 2021 - Instituto Superior Técnico, 2021.
Journal article
  1. Liliana Freitas; Mónica D. Oliveira; Ana C.L. Vieira. "Guiding Stakeholder Involvement in Health Technology Assessment for Medical Devices: A novel approach for clarifying stakeholders’ roles and contributions". Health Policy and Technology (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2025.101075.
    Open access • In press • 10.1016/j.hlpt.2025.101075
  2. Liliana Freitas; Ana C. L. Vieira; Mónica D. Oliveira; Helena Monteiro; Carlos A. Bana e Costa. "Which value aspects are relevant for the evaluation of medical devices? Exploring stakeholders' views through a Web-Delphi process". BMC Health Services Research 23 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09550-0.
    Open access • Published • 10.1186/s12913-023-09550-0
  3. Carlos A. Bana e Costa; Mónica D. Oliveira; Ana C.L. Vieira; Freitas, Liliana; Teresa C. Rodrigues; João Bana e Costa; Ângela Freitas; Paula Santana. "Collaborative development of composite indices from qualitative value judgements: The EURO-HEALTHY Population Health Index model". European Journal of Operational Research 305 1 (2023): 475-492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2022.05.037.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.ejor.2022.05.037
  4. Santana, Paula; Freitas, Ângela; Stefanik, Iwa; Costa, Cláudia; Oliveira, Mónica; Rodrigues, Teresa C.; Vieira, Ana; et al. "Advancing tools to promote health equity across European Union regions: the EURO-HEALTHY project". Health Research Policy and Systems 18 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-0526-y.
    Open access • Published • 10.1186/s12961-020-0526-y
  5. Alvarenga, António; Bana e Costa, Carlos A.; Borrell, Carme; Ferreira, Pedro Lopes; Freitas, Ângela; Freitas, Liliana; Oliveira, Mónica D.; et al. "Scenarios for population health inequalities in 2030 in Europe: the EURO-HEALTHY project experience". International Journal for Equity in Health 18 1 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-019-1000-8.
    10.1186/s12939-019-1000-8
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Freitas, Liliana. "Explaining variability in surgical decision-making: Developing qualitative and quantitative models to characterize surgeons' choice of treatments". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2015. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/mebiom/dissertacao/846778572210670.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/07/06 A socio-technical approach for multicriteria evaluation of emerging biomarkers in hospital settings EURO 2022 - 32nd European Conference on Operational Research
Aalto University (Espoo, Finland)
2021/11/21 Designing and testing the IMPACT HTA socio-technical framework to assist HTA agencies in the multicriteria evaluation of new medicines on a common basis 17ª Conferência Nacional de Economia da Saúde
ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/10/22 Developing behavioural research in Web-Delphi processes: results from a real-world Delphi experiment in Health Technology Assessment 17ª Conferência Nacional de Economia da Saúde
ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/10/22 Which value aspects are relevant for the evaluation of distinct types of medical devices? A Web-Delphi process to explore the views of health stakeholders in Portugal 17ª Conferência Nacional de Economia da Saúde
ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/07/12 The effect of disaggregating summary statistics in Web-Delphi processes: results from a real-world Delphi experiment EURO 2021 - 31st European Conference on Operational Research
University of West Attica (Athens (online), Greece)
2021/07/06 The effect of disaggregating summary statistics in Web-Delphi processes: results from a real-world Delphi experiment ORAHS 2021 Operational Research Applied to Health Services
University of Southampton (GB) and Simon Fraser University (CA) (online)
2019/10/18 Combining behavioural health economics with Delphi processes: Developing new tools to enable the collection of stakeholders' views in policy and HTA contexts 16ª Conferência Nacional de Economia da Saúde
Associação Portuguesa de Economia da Saúde (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/08/01 Embedding behavioural OR within Delphi knowledge construction processes in health settings ORAHS 2019 Operational Research Applied to Health Services
European Working group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (Karlsruhe, Germany)
2019/07/23 Embedding behavioural OR within Delphi knowledge construction processes in health settings IO2019 - XX Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional
Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional (Tomar, Portugal)
2017/10/12 Towards improved surgical decision-making: A multimethodology to understand variability in surgeons' choice of treatments and to build a decision support model 15ª Conferência Nacional de Economia da Saúde
Associação Portuguesa de Economia da Saúde (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/08/04 A novel participatory approach to scenario building: application to the evolution of population health inequalities in Europe ORAHS 2017 Operational Research Applied to Health Services
European Working Group on Operations Research Applied to Healthcare Services (Bath, United Kingdom)
2017/06/29 A novel participatory approach to scenario building: application to the evolution of population health inequalities in Europe XVIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional
Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional (Valença, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)		 Institution / Organization
2017/03/29 - 2017/03/30 Second Workshop for Population Health Scenario building - a participatory approach for building population health scenarios for Europe for 2030. (2017/03/29 - 2017/03/30)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Instituto Superior Técnico Centro de Estudos de Gestão, Portugal
2017/01/30 - 2017/01/30 EURO-HEALTHY Decision Conference II and First Workshop for Population Health Scenario building - two participatory approaches for (1) building the EURO-HEALTHY Population Health Index and (2) building population health scenarios for Europe for 2030. (2017/01/30 - 2017/01/30)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Instituto Superior Técnico Centro de Estudos de Gestão, Portugal
2016/10/24 - 2016/10/26 EURO-HEALTHY Decision Conference I - a participatory approach for building the EURO-HEALTHY Population Health Index. (2016/10/24 - 2016/10/26)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Instituto Superior Técnico Centro de Estudos de Gestão, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event		 Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/07/03 - 2022/07/06 Conference EURO 2022 - 32nd European Conference on Operational Research (Finland) organised by EURO, the European Association of Operational Research Society, and FORS, the Finnish Operations Research Society.
Conference
 EURO 2022 - 32nd European Conference on Operational Research
Aalto-yliopisto, Finland
2021/10/20 - 2021/10/22 Participation in the 17th Portuguese National Conference on Health Economics.
Conference
 17ª Conferência Nacional de Economia da Saúde
ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Portugal
2021/07/11 - 2021/07/14 Conference EURO 2021 - 31st European Conference on Operational Research (online) organised by EURO, the European Association of Operational Research Society, and HELORS, the Hellenic Operational Research Society.
Conference
 EURO 2021 - 31st European Conference on Operational Research
Panepistemio Dytikes Attikes, Greece
2021/07/05 - 2021/07/09 Conference of the European Working Group on Operations Research Applied to Healthcare Services (online) organised by Marion Penn from the University of Southampton (GB) and Sandy Rutherford from Simon Fraser University (CA)
Conference
 2021 Operational Research Applied to Health Services
University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Simon Fraser University, Canada
2019/10/16 - 2019/10/18 The 16th Portuguese National Conference on Health Economics promotes the discussion of topics that have occupied health economics researchers, with special emphasis on what refers to Portugal.
Conference
 16ª Conferência Nacional de Economia da Saúde
2019/09/01 - 2019/09/08 Euro PhD summer school "Operational Research for Value-based Health Care" - An EURO PhD summer school that aimed to be a unique forum for PhD students and young researchers working in operational research in health to get acquainted with relevant topics to address health decision-makers needs and to generate sound operational research methods, knowledge and tools aligned with value-based health care.
Other
 Euro PhD summer school ‘Operational Research for Value-based Health Care’
Instituto Superior Técnico Centro de Estudos de Gestão, Portugal
2019/07/28 - 2019/08/02 Conference of the European Working Group on Operations Research Applied to Healthcare Services organised by the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI)
Conference
 ORAHS 2019 Operational Research Applied to Health Services
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
2019/07/22 - 2019/07/24 IO2019 XX Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional - The APDIO Congress is an event for discussion among professionals, researchers, teachers and students interested in Operational Research, or people just wanting to get to know this area better.
Conference
 IO2019 - XX Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
2019/06/17 - 2019/06/21 Summer School on Behavioural Operational Research (BOR) - this summer school provided the opportunity to discuss insights and gain first-hand experience with a number of research and Operational Research methods with workshops that involved challenges to be worked on in small groups or individually
Other
 Summer School on Behavioural Operational Research (BOR)
Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2017/10/12 - 2017/10/13 The 15th Portuguese National Conference on Health Economics promotes the discussion of topics that have occupied health economics researchers, with special emphasis on what refers to Portugal.
Conference
 15ª Conferência Nacional de Economia da Saúde
2017/07/30 - 2017/08/04 Conference of the European Working Group on Operations Research Applied to Healthcare Services organised by the University of Bath
Conference
 ORAHS 2017 Operational Research Applied to Health Services
University of Bath Faculty of Management, United Kingdom
2017/07/03 - 2017/07/07 Training School on "Pharmaceutical Supply Chains II" - the second edition of a summer school for teachers, researchers, MSc/PhD students and practitioners interested in discussing "Medicines Shortages" and "Pharmaceutical Supply Chain" issues.
Other
 Training School on "Pharmaceutical Supply Chains II"
Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portugal
2017/06/28 - 2017/06/30 IO2017 XVIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional - The APDIO Congress is an event for discussion among professionals, researchers, teachers and students interested in Operational Research, or people just wanting to get to know this area better.
Conference
 XVIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional
Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais, Portugal
2017/04/26 - 2017/04/28 Training School on “Pharmaceutical Supply Chains I” - the first edition of a summer school for teachers, researchers, MSc/PhD students and practitioners interested in discussing “Medicines Shortages” and "Pharmaceutical Supply Chain" issues.
Other
 Training School on “Pharmaceutical Supply Chains I”
Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/03/01 - 2021/07/31 Health systems Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/02 - 2020/07 Health systems Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/09 - 2020/01 Health systems Proteção e Segurança Radiológica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/02 - 2019/06 Health systems Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/09 - 2019/01 Health systems Proteção e Segurança Radiológica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal