Prof. Ferreira joined Qatar University - College of Health Sciences in Aug 2021. She is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health, where she teaches clinical epidemiology, advanced epidemiology, research design and methods, and evidence synthesis courses of the Master in Public Health and the PhD in Health Sciences Graduate Programs. She obtained a MSc in Exercise and Health from the University of Lisbon, Portugal (1998), and a PhD in Epidemiology (lifestyle, metabolic and cardiovascular diseases) from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2004). Prof. Ferreira has over 20 years of experience in epidemiology teaching and research, both in public health and clinical related settings, in top universities in the Netherlands (Erasmus University and Maastricht University Medical Centers) and Australia (University of Queensland and University of Wollongong). To date she has published >100 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, 15 book chapters and 1 textbook, and supervised or co-supervised 9 PhD + 11 MSc students to conclusion. She has held several competitive research grants and served in international grant evaluation and conference panels. She is also an experienced Editor and a Clarivate/Web-of-Science top peer reviewer. She is passionate about the study of the early (perinatal, childhood) determinants of metabolic and cardiovascular health. Her main expertise/interests are in advanced epidemiological methods to analyse longitudinal/life-course cohort data, conduct causal inference and mediation analyses, and complex meta-analyses in the area of lifestyle-related diseases such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension. More recently, she has focused on teaching/research of responsible research practices and integrity and in the debunking of the growing amount of published flawed and misleading research and the spread of health-related misinformation. “Empowerment through authentic communication” is her motto.