Maria do Rosario Fraga Oliveira Martins. At the present, she is Full Professor- teaching Statistics, Research Methods, Econometrics for Public Health, Deputy Diretor for Education, Quality Assurance and Communication (since January 2024), President of the Pedagogical Board (since September 2020) and Director of the Global Public Health Department (since May 2023). She is the Coordinator of the PhD Program in International Health and Coordinator of the postgraduate program in Statistics Applied to Health (full eLearning Program), and member of PhD Program in Global Public Health board. She is leading the Ciência LP- Public Health Schools Consortium and member of the NOVA University Ethics Committee. She is the Scientific Leader of the GHTM- Population Health Policies and Services (PPS) research group, member of the International AIDS Society Award Committee for Experts in HIV Service Delivery Fellowship Program and member of the European Mathematical Ethics Commission. She has been Troped President between 2017 and 2019. Between 2014 and 2019, she was IHMT Deputy Director, member of the Strategic Advisory Committee of the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) and WHO consultant for Health Information Systems (Health Observatory of the African Region). She was member of the NOVA University of Lisbon General Council between 2009 and February 2018, member of the Ethical Committee for Clinical Research in Portugal (CEIC) between 2011 and 2017 and vice President of the IHMT Scientific Council between 2010 and 2012. She has been President of the NOVA University eLearning Unit Mission, between 2007 and 2009. From 2004 until 2007, she has been Pro-Rector at NOVA University of Lisbon, having implemented the NOVA eLearning Centre. Between 2000 and 2010, she has been Deputy Director of the NOVA-Institute of Statistics and Management Information, President of the Pedagogical Board, Director of the undergraduate Program in Information Management, member of the Portuguese Statistical Council, consultant at the National Institute of Statistics and member of the NOVA University Senate. She supervised more than 70 Master Dissertations and 20 PhD Theses. She was Principal Investigator of more than 15 Research and Development Projects award by national and EU funds. Since 2004, she organizes capacity building research and training activities (statistics, research methods and scientific writing) namely in Portuguese Speaking African Countries, such as Mozambique, Cape Verde and Angola. She is author of 6 books and has published more than 100 papers in National and International Journals. She participates regularly in scientific international conferences.