Sofia Madeira is a researcher at the NOVA National School of Public Health in Lisbon. She holds a PhD in Public Health from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), with a research exchange period at El Colegio de México (COLMEX); a Master’s degree in Demography from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP); and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU). She conducted postdoctoral research at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES-UC) and served as Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the same university (FEUC), where she taught courses on quantitative data analysis. Over the past fifteen years, her academic work has focused on various issues at the intersection of gender, public health, and demography, with particular emphasis on the sexual and reproductive health and behaviour of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in Brazil and Latin America. In the past decade, her research has examined abuse, disrespect, and mistreatment experienced by women during childbirth and abortion, and more recently, experiences of obstetric violence among migrant women in Portugal.