Vera ARAUJO-SOARES

I am currently Professor of Prevention leading the Division on Prevention of the Center for Preventive Medicine and Digital Health (CPD) at the Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University.

From September 2020 to December 2022 I worked at the Health Technology and Services Research, BMS Faculty at the University of Twente, The Netherlands as Professor of Health Psychology and Planetary Health.

From 2010 till 2020 I worked at the University in Newcastle (UK). There I took various internal, national and international leadership roles. I was the Impact Lead for the Population Health Sciences Institute representing the institute on matters of impact and preparing impact case examples for the national Research Excellence Framework evaluation.

Regionally, I led the Behaviour Change programme in Fuse, the UK Clinical Research Collaboration Centre of Excellence for Translational Research in Public Health (http://www.fuse.ac.uk/) funded by the UK Medical Research Council.
Internationally, I served as the 14th elected President of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS; www.ehps.net; 2018-2020) and have now taken on the Executive Committee position as Past President (2020-2022).