Olena Oliveira graduated in Sanitary Affairs, Hygiene and Epidemiology from the Institute of Medicine of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine (1994) and obtained a Master’s degree in Epidemiology from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (2012). She has a PhD in Health Sciences from the School of Medicine of the University of Minho (2021). In the context of his PhD thesis, he analyzed the spatial distribution of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and non-MDR-TB between municipalities in Portugal, evaluated the dynamics of emergence and transmission of MDR-TB and identified the associated risk factors, with the aim of providing knowledge about the emergence and transmission of MDR-TB in Portugal aiming at the adjustment of local strategies in order to prevent and reduce the incidence of MDR-TB in the country. Since 2010 she has been dedicated to research in the area of communicable infectious diseases, particularly epidemiology, control measures and TB prevention. During these years she was a fellow in two funded projects led by ISPUP and participated as a team member in several funded and non-funded projects that resulted in 17 scientific publications in international journals and 5 in national journals. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow under the Project “MOVE24-Dissemination, Monitoring and Surveillance of the Guidelines of the Portuguese 24-Hour Movement: making the whole day matter” (PTDC / SAU-DES / 0166/ 2021). She is also part of the Laboratory “Physical activity and non-communicable chronic diseases”, included in the ITR – Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health.
