A doctor, she is doing her specific training in General and Family Medicine. She got her Bachelor’s degree (2008) and PhD (2016) in Nutrition, in the area of child food consumption, from the University of Lisbon School of Medicine, where she has been a visiting assistant professor since 2018. She is devoted to study and research in the area of maternal nutrition and child nutrition. She worked as a nutritionist at the Portuguese Red Cross Hospital and collaborated on several national and international projects in the area of pregnancy, breastfeeding and child malnutrition.

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