Staff profile

• Diagnosis, psychiatry and neurodisability/diversity
• Science, technology and society (STS)
• Medical sociology and anthropology
• Ethnography and Ecosocial theory/methods
• Critical global health and medical humanities
• Globalisation and translation of knowledge
• Interdisciplinary collaboration and co-production
• Environments of health, wellbeing, disability and vulnerability
• Children, families, and social inequalities

• 2025: Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow 2025-26:
• 2024: Member of the RENKEI Network UK-Japan:
• 2024: Wellcome's Early-Career Awards and Interviews Committee Member (UK):
• 2024: Member of the Planetary Health Alliance:
• 2024: Editorial Board, Sociology of Health and Illness:
• 2023: Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation (USA):
• 2023: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Advance HE UK:
• 2022: Associate member, Social Dimensions of Biomedicine, University of Edinburgh:
• 2022: Founding member of steering committee for Mental Health Observatory, Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health:
• 2021: 101 Mulheres na Ciência | Women in Science, Agência Ciência Viva (honours list, 3rd ed., Portgual):
• 2021: Visiting Scholar, Usher Institute (CBSS), University of Edinburgh:
• 2021: Fellow of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, USA:
• 2020: Associate member, Culture, Mind and Brain Programme (DSTP), McGill University:
• 2019: Scientific editor, Transcultural Psychiatry:
• 2019: Editorial board, Canadian Journal of Bioethics:
• 2019: Member and grant collaborator, Biosocial Birth Cohort Research Network, UCL:
• 2018: Member, Training and Research Advisory Committee, Kids Brain Health Network, Canada:
• 2018: Rising Star Prize | Prix Relève Étoile, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQSC, Canada):
• 2015: King's College London and Elsevier Prize for Outstanding PhD Thesis (UK):
• 2013: KCL Social Science & Public Policy Award for Postgraduate Students:
• 2010: Fellow of Science & Technology Foundation, FCT-Portugal:
• 2009: Visiting Researcher, Centre de sociologie de l'innovation, École des Mines Paris:

Book review

• Filipe, A. M. (2017). Adams, V. (ed). Metrics: What Counts in Global Health. Durham: Duke University Press. 2016. 258pp. $24.95 (pbk) ISBN 978–0‐8223–6097–1. Sociology of Health & Illness, 39(8), 1575-1577. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12602
• Filipe, A. M., & Singh, I. (2016). Raising Generation Rx: Mothering Kids with Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality. By Linda M. Blum. New York: New York University Press, 2015. Pp. viii+310. $79.00 (cloth); $27.00 (paper). American Journal of Sociology, 122(3), 985-987. https://doi.org/10.1086/688472

Chapter in book

• Rojas Navarro, S., & Filipe, A. M. (2023). Situer la vie sociale des TDAH: Entre le médical, le local et le global. In C. L. Vieira, C. Yves, & P. M. M. Renata (Eds.), L’attention médicamentée: La Ritaline à l’école (57-76). Presses Universitaires de Rennes
• Ferreira, P., & Filipe, A. M. (2019). Bioética [bioethics]. In ALICE Dictionary. CES/ALICE
• Bergey, M., & Filipe, A. M. (2018). ADHD in a global context: An introduction. In M. R. Bergey, A. M. Filipe, P. Conrad, & I. Singh (Eds.), Global Perspectives on ADHD: Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries (1-8). Johns Hopkins University Press. https://doi.org/10.1353/book.56717
• Filipe, A. M. (2018). The emergence and shaping of ADHD in Portugal: Ambiguities of a diagnosis “In the making”. In M. R. Bergey, A. M. Filipe, P. Conrad, & I. Singh (Eds.), Global Perspectives on ADHD: Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries (118-137). Johns Hopkins University Press
• Filipe, A. M. (2014). Biopolitics. In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. Editors: W. C. Cockerham, R. Dingwall, S. Quah (142-145). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118410868.wbehibs255
• Filipe, A. M., Roriz, M., Neves, D., Matias, M., & Nunes, J. A. (2014). Coletivos sociais na saúde: o ativismo em torno das doenças raras e do parto em Portugal. . CES Almedina

Edited book

• Bergey, M. R., Filipe, A. M., Conrad, P., & Singh, I. (Eds.). (2018). Global Perspectives on ADHD: Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries. Johns Hopkins University Press. https://doi.org/10.1353/book.56717
• Akrich, M., Nunes, J., Patterson, F., & Rabeharisoa, V. (Eds.). (2008). The dynamics of patient organizations in Europe. Presses des Mines. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pressesmines.1577

Journal Article

• Gibbon, S., Roberts, E. F. S., Hardy, R., Béhague, D. P., Téllez Rojo, M. M., Goncalves-Soares, A., Mathers, R., Penkler, M., Fraga, S., Wooyoung Kim, A., Pentecost, M., Tabor, E., Jeffries-Hein, R., Lappé, M., Borra, C., Rossmann, S., Lloyd, S., Filipe, A., & Silva, S. (2024). New frontiers for Biosocial Birth Cohort Research: interdisciplinary approaches to exposure, harmonisation and collaboration. Wellcome Open Research, 9, Article 355. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21734.1
• Filipe, A. (2024). Pandemic Life-lines: A Multimodal Autoethnography of COVID-19 Illness, Isolation, and Shared Immunities. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 11(1), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.11.1.7359
• Ford, A., De Togni, G., Erikainen, S., Filipe, A. M., Pickersgill, M., Sturdy, S., Swallow, J., & Young, I. (2024). How and why to use ‘vulnerability’: an interdisciplinary analysis of disease risk, indeterminacy and normality. Medical Humanities, 50(1), 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2023-012683
• Filipe, A. M. (2023). The other face of medical globalization? Pharmaceutical data, prescribing trends, and the social localization of psychostimulants. BioSocieties, 18(2), 335-357. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-022-00271-x
• Salvino, C., Spencer, C., Filipe, A. M., & Lach, L. M. (2022). Mapping of Financial Support Programs for Children With Neurodisabilities Across Canada: Barriers and Discrepancies Within a Patchwork System. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 33(3), 168-177. https://doi.org/10.1177/10442073211066776
• McCrossin, J., Filipe, A. M., Nicholas, D., & Lach, L. M. (2022). The Allegory of "Navigation" as a Concept of Care: The Case of Child Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 27(2), Online-first. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7017122
• Erikainen, S., Stewart, E., Filipe, A. M., Chan, S., Cunningham-Burley, S., Ilson, S., King, G., Porteous, C., Sinclair, S., & Webb, J. (2022). Towards a feminist philosophy of engagements in health-related research. Wellcome Open Research, 6, 58. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16535.2
• Filipe, A. M., Bogossian, A., Zulla, R., Nicholas, D., & Lach, L. M. (2021). Developing a Canadian framework for social determinants of health and well-being among children with neurodisabilities and their families: an ecosocial perspective. Disability and Rehabilitation, 43(26), 3856-3867. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2020.1754926
• Filipe, A. M., Lloyd, S., & Larivée, A. (2021). Troubling Neurobiological Vulnerability: Psychiatric Risk and the Adverse Milieu in Environmental Epigenetics Research. Frontiers in Sociology, 6, Article 635986. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.635986
• Filipe, A. M. (2020). Situar a hiperatividade e déficit de atenção em Portugal: dimensões sociais, históricas e éticas de um tema emergente na saúde global. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 36(12), Article e00056420. https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-311x00056420
• Filipe, A. M. (2017). Situated Interventions in Health Care? Refiguring the Normative Place and Experimental Practice of Social Science. Science as Culture, 26(3), 418-423. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2017.1315930
• Filipe, A., Renedo, A., & Marston, C. (2017). The co-production of what? Knowledge, values, and social relations in health care. PLoS Biology, 15(5), e2001403. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001403
• Marston, C., Renedo, A., Matthews, R., Filipe, A., & Reed, J. (2017). Collaborating for better health: the role of qualitative research. BMJ Open, 7(Suppl 2), bmjopen-2017-016492.2. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016492.2
• Filipe, A. M. (2016). Making ADHD Evident: Data, Practices, and Diagnostic Protocols in Portugal. Medical Anthropology, 35(5), 390-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2015.1101102
• Rabeharisoa, V., Callon, M., Filipe, A. M., Nunes, J. A., Paterson, F., & Vergnaud, F. (2014). From ‘politics of numbers’ to ‘politics of singularisation’: Patients’ activism and engagement in research on rare diseases in France and Portugal. BioSocieties, 9(2), 194-217. https://doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2014.4
• Filipe, A. M. (2014). The Rise of Child Psychiatry in Portugal: An Intimate Social and Political History, 1915-1959. Social History of Medicine, 27(2), 326-348. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hku006
• Singh, I., Filipe, A. M., Bard, I., Bergey, M., & Baker, L. (2013). Globalization and Cognitive Enhancement: Emerging Social and Ethical Challenges for ADHD Clinicians. Current Psychiatry Reports, 15(9), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-013-0385-0
• Filipe, A. M. (2010). Entre bios e polis? Debates contemporâneos sobre saúde, biomedicina e biocidadania. Prisma Jurídico, 9(1), 75-89
• Nunes, J., Filipe, A. M., & Matias, M. (2010). Os novos actores colectivos no campo da saúde: o papel das famílias nas associações de doentes. Alicerces, 3, 119-128
• Filipe, A. (2009). Actores colectivos e os seus projectos para a saúde: o caso das associações de doentes em Portugal. Eä: Revista de Humanidades Médicas y Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, 1(2), 1-48
• Nunes, J. A., Matias, M., & Filipe, Â. M. (2007). Patient organizations as emerging actors in the health arena: the case of Portugal. RECIIS: Revista Eletrônica de Comunicação, Informação & Inovação em Saúde, 1(1), 105-108. https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v1i1.894

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Filipe, A. (2020). Paying attention: Diagnosis, values, and meaning-making in the ADHD clinic. [Academic blog]
• Lloyd, S., Filipe, A., & Larivée, A. (2020). Epistemic and Temporal Disjunctions: (Re)Mapping "Suicide Risk" Epigenetics Through Birth Cohorts

Working Paper

• Filipe, A. A vida como política? Debates contemporâneos sobre saúde, (bio)medicina e cidadania
• Rabeharisoa, V., Callon, M., Filipe, A., Nunes, J. A., & Paterson, F. The dynamics of causes and conditions: the rareness of diseases in French and Portuguese patients’ organizations’ engagement in research