Ana Aguiar began her research career at the Public Health Institute of the University of Porto in September 2015 and is a member of the Laboratory for the Epidemiology of Respiratory Diseases, Mycobacterial Infection and Other Infectious Diseases. She graduated in Educational Sciences from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto in 2013. In 2015, she completed her Master’s in Health Education from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. She has a PhD in Public Health since October 2024 and she is Guest Assistant at the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Porto since September 2022 in the disciplines of Epidemiology and Public Health and Medical Epidemiology in the Integrated Master’s Degree in Medicine.
Since September 2015, she began working in the area of infectious diseases (namely HIV , viral hepatitis and tuberculosis) in several projects at ISPUP. In 2020, he was awarded an individual scholarship from FCT to undertake a PhD in Public Health, at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, which led to his thesis entitled “Is it ok not to be ok?” The psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Portuguese population: understanding the role of individual and socio-environmental factors in mental health.
Her main research interests are in the epidemiology of tuberculosis and its socio-economic and environmental determinants, especially in groups often referred to as those most at risk (people deprived of liberty, migrants, people who use drugs and people living on the streets).
She also has a special interest in issues of stigma associated with the disease and the determinants of delay in diagnosis in TB.
