Eleonora C. V. Costa
Professor
Portuguese Catholic University
Portugal
Biography
Eleonora C. V. Costa, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University, Portugal. With a Ph.D. in Psychology, specialization in Health Psychology.
Her major work has been in the fields of psychosexual health promotion and HIV prevention in women, with several published works in peer-reviewed journals and multiple presentations at national and international conferences mostly about HIV prevention. She has extensive research experience in women’s health in primary care settings and coordinates a research project on the determinants of women’s health in primary-care settings whose main focus are sexual risk behavior and correlated trauma and illness.
Research Interest
Trauma
Health risk
Sexual risk behavior
