She has a degree in Dentistry, specialised in residency in Family and Community Health and in Public Health Dentistry, a master’s degree in Public Health and is a doctoral student in Public Health at the Aggeu Magalhães Institute of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz). She is currently in mobility at the University of Minho, through the Doctorate Abroad Programme (PDSE) of the Brazilian Foundation for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes), where she is researching the training and insertion into the labour market of public health specialists in Brazil and Portugal, under the guidance of Professor Ana Paula Marques.