She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (specializing in the Sociology of Organizations and Work), a Master's degree in Intercultural Relations from the Open University, and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from ISCTE.

She developed academic and teaching activity at the University of South Carolina as a Research Assistant Professor at the Arnold School of Public Health and the Office for the Study of Aging, and as a Research Associate at the Center for Child and Family Studies, at the same university. At the Universidade Aberta, she began her teaching career (Assistant) in the Department of Human and Social Sciences and as a researcher at the Center for Migration Studies and Intercultural Relations. She also collaborated as a researcher and/or lecturer, among others, at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (USA), Kingston Immigration Partnership – Kingston Community Health Centers (Canada), Queen's University (Canada), and more recently was a collaborator of the Center for Studies for Social Intervention (CESIS), in Portugal.

She has developed an interdisciplinary research agenda, crossing the areas of sociology of organizations and work, health and aging, and migration, using quantitative and qualitative methodologies. She has also worked in the area of ​​social program evaluation. Her research has been published in journals such as Ethnicity & Health, Social Science & Medicine, BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, and the American Journal of Public Health, among others.

ana.teixeira@colabor.pt