Bruna Solange Chaves António

Bruna Solange Chaves António is a Researcher affiliated with HEI-Lab - Digital Laboratories of Environments and Human Interactions, specializing in public health and psychological research. Her work spans 2023-2025 with significant contributions to vaccination studies and autism spectrum disorder family dynamics.

Her research focuses on Public Health interventions, particularly seasonal influenza and COVID-19 vaccination campaigns, alongside Autism Spectrum Disorder family adaptation. She employs Mixed Methods approaches to investigate health communication effectiveness, vaccine hesitancy predictors, and coping behaviors in families with autistic children, demonstrating interdisciplinary expertise across medicine, psychology, and social sciences.

Analysis of her 2023-2025 publications reveals evolving research trajectories: initial work on autism family dynamics (2023) transitioned to urgent vaccination campaign evaluations (2024-2025), reflecting responsiveness to public health emergencies. Both domains consistently utilize mixed-methods designs for comprehensive insights into human behavior and health outcomes.

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António served as active researcher in the 2023-2024 government-funded project "Study on the perceived effectiveness of the Communication Campaign to promote seasonal vaccination Autumn-Winter" led by Oliveira at Direção-Geral da Saúde. She maintains extensive collaborations with multidisciplinary teams across Portuguese health institutions.

As core member of HEI-Lab, she contributes to digital environment research frameworks that underpin her empirical work on human interactions in health contexts, particularly through digital laboratory methodologies for behavioral analysis.