Cristina Camilo is an Invited Assistant Professor at ISCTE-IUL, Executive Manager of Iscte_Saúde and Invited Researcher at CIS-IUL. She holds a PhD in Psychology, and develops research in the area of the impact of social relationships on health and well-being, namely on the processes that mediate this association.  She also studies the interpersonal processes of regulation of negative emotions in situations of illness. She is coordinator of the Global Diagnostic Study, developed in collaboration with Childhood Cancer International (CCI) and co-coordinator of the program developed with SICAD in the context of the program "Eu e os Outros".