Her field of interest and study has been the Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases, from diagnosis to prevention. Her research work at the moment and within the scope of her doctoral thesis, is part of the relationship between social epidemiology and cardiovascular diseases in Portuguese people with at least 60 years of age; in the form of the assessment of various indicators of social vulnerability and the development of cardiovascular disease.
She is also a member of the Laboratory for Social Adversity and Inequalities in Health at ITR – Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ISPUP).