Joana Amaro graduated in Nursing in 2007. After working in a Renal Unit at St Luke’s Hospital (Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), in the UK, she joined the Occupational Health Unit of the University of Porto in 2010. In 2013, she obtained a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto with the thesis “Patterns of breast cancer mortality trends in Europe”. In 2022, she completed a Doctoral Programme in Global Public Health, a joint degree from the University of Porto and Nova University of Lisbon, with a project entitled Work and health in mothers of a Portuguese birth cohort, and Occupational Health is one of her main research and teaching interests.
She is an invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, and a member of the ‘Life Course Research and Healthy Ageing’ research line of the Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research (ITR). She has also been involved in OMEGA-NET (CA COST Action CA16216), a Network on the Coordination and Harmonisation of European Occupational Cohorts, as well as the ‘MERIT – MothER Income InequaliTy’ project, which examined the impact of motherhood on income and professional career.
