Joana Pinto da Costa was born in 1995 in Santa Maria da Feira. She holds a degree in Biomedical Pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra (2016) and a Master in Public Health from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (2019). Currently, she integrates the lab “Epidemiology of mycobacteria infection, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections” at the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto and is a Ph.D. student in Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, since 2020, with a research project funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (DFA/BD/8562/2020) entitled “Understanding the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal perspective on testing uptake, SARS-CoV-2 frequency, and long COVID-19”.
