Sílvia Fraga holds a PhD in Public Health at the University of Porto and is currently a researcher assistant at the Institute of Public Health of University of Porto. She is the Group Leader of the Research Lab on Social Adversity and Health Inequalities hosted at Epidemiology at the Epidemiology Research Unit (EPIUnit). She is the Coordinator of the Thematic Line "Syndemics, health inequalities and vulnerable populations" at the Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR). Her main research interests include social inequalities in health, early life exposures, violence phenomena and the biological consequences of social adversity (social to biological processes). Silvia got three FCT-funding projects as Principal Investigator and member in other national and international consortia. She is currently a member of the Biosocial Birth Cohort Research: A Cross-Disciplinary Network (lead by Sahra Gibbon from University College of London). Sílvia published several articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals. She is an Associate-Editor of Frontiers in Public Health, Section of lifecourse epidemiology and health inequalities. She is an Invited Assistant Professor, responsible for the supervision of master and doctoral students, and also for giving lectures to the post-graduate courses at the Medical School of Porto University. She was recently nominated as a member of the Gender Equality Board of the University of Porto. Since January 2023, I have been a member of the Board of Directors of ISPUP.