NOVAFRICA News: Infant and Maternal Health
“Infant and Maternal Health” The NOVAFRICA‘s new research project proposes a novel agenda for reducing infant and maternal mortality in Guinea Bissau. A project developed... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Annual newsletter
NOVAFRICA‘s welcome to 2022! In this new year, we would like to share with you our achievements in 2021 and our goals for 2022. Read... Read More
New NOVAFRICA Working Paper: “Let’s Call! Using the Phone to Increase Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Alex Armand, Mattia Fracchia, and Pedro Vicente this paper develops and... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Visão magazine interviews Mattia Fracchia about NOVAFRICA Covid-19 vaccine study
Mattia Fracchia, one of NOVAFRICA’s researchers involved in the global study published in Nature Medicine about vaccines against COVID-19 was interviewed by Visão magazine. Mattia... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Vaccine acceptance is higher in low-and middle- income countries
A new study published in Nature Medicine reveals that COVID-19 vaccine acceptance is higher in low- and middle-income countries than in richer countries. A global study by researchers... Read More
NOVAFRICA Working Paper “Motivating Volunteer Health Workers in an African Capital City”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Facchia Mattia, Teresa Molina Milan and Pedro Vicente, this paper... Read More
NOVAFRICA Webinar “Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone”
On Wednesday, March 3rd, at 02.30pm, Lisbon time, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Anne Karing from Princeton University to present her work on Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization in... Read More
NOVAFRICA discusses the Health System in Guinea-Bissau
The future community health strategy in Guinea-Bissau was debated in a workshop promoted by the Global Fund in close collaboration with UNICEF. Pedro Vicente, scientific... Read More
Covid-19 in Africa: a success or a tragedy foretold?
The very fast implementation of political measures to combat covid-19 might partially explain the “African success” in this pandemic. However, all its direct and indirect... Read More
Four Months in Bula: Why Would I Do It Again
My name is Rita and I’m currently finishing my master’s in economics, at Nova SBE. Last semester I had the pleasure to do an internship,... Read More
