Integrated Member (PhD) Integrated Member (PhD)
Research Line: L1 - Life Course Research and Healthy Ageing
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”.
She is currently finishing her Doctoral Programme in Global Public Health of the University of Porto and the Nova University of Lisbon, with the project titled “Work and health in mothers of a Portuguese birth cohort”, and Occupational Health is one of her main research interests.
