Biography

Mauro Serapioni is senior researcher at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. Mauro Serapioni is graduated in Political and Social Science at the University of Bologna, Master in Health Management at the Istituto Superiore di Sanitá (Rome) and PhD in Sociology from the University of Barcelona. Holds the title of professor doctor, awarded by the Social Sciences and Law Committee of the Evaluation program of the National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation (ANECA) of Spain. Mauro Serapioni lectures in the Doctoral Program "Democracy in the 21st Century" (CES-FEUC). He was coordinator of the Research Group on Social Policies, Work and Inequalities. He was visiting professor at the Postgraduate Course in Collective Health at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, invited professor at PhD programme in Public Policy at the State University of Ceará (UECE), visiting researcher at the Faculty of Juridical and Social Sciences of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (campus of Toledo), and at the Department of Political Science of the University of Pisa. He was contracted professor at the Universities of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) and Bologna (UNIBO), and Research Fellow at the University of Bologna (Forlì Campus) (2002-03). Its main research area is Citizen Participation in health systems in the Southern European countries and Brazil. In this research line, Mauro Serapioni coordinates, since 15-05-2019, the research project FCT CEECIND 00885/2017, "Public Participation in Health: The experience of Southern European Countries", funded by the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT), and, between 2019 and 2020 has coordinated the Study on "Citizen participation in the Hospitals of the Portuguese National Health", financed by the Portuguese Association of Hospital Administrators (APAH). Another research topic developed in recent years concerns the Impact of the current crisis on Health Systems and Health Inequalities in Southern European Countries. He has also worked on the theme of Evaluation of social and health policies and programs. He has authored several publications in national and international journals in these areas.