Filipa is the coordinator of the project WHOLS - Whose Lives Should Be Saved? Patients’ Race/Ethnicity and Medical Rationing during the COVID-19 Pandemic, and co-coordinator of the project LUSO – The past in the present: Social Psychological Underpinnings of Luso-tropicalism in the Legitimation of Social and Racial Inequality, both at ICS-ULisboa. She holds a PhD in Migrations and Social Psychology from ICS-ULisboa and has been a Research Visiting Scholar at Intergroup Research Lab at Yale University (2017 and 2019) and at the Social Cognition Lab at UCL University (2018).
Research Fellow: Social Psychology
Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Lisbon (UL)
The WHOLS project focuses on racial bias in medicine and health care disparities, examining the impact of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination in relation to the health/medical care of members of disadvantaged groups. Filipa's interests include unconscious cognitive processes and their influence on healthcare provider behavior, including clinical decisions and medical rationing decisions. LUSO addresses the impact of lusotropicalism on contemporary race relations, focusing on the implications of lusotropicalist beliefs for legitimizing social and racial inequality.
Keywords: racial attitudes, stereotypes, discrimination, health inequalities, immigration