Ana Rita Goes is an Assistant Professor at the NOVA NSPH. Her research focuses on health promotion using a socio-behavioural sciences approach. Her areas of interest include understanding the health needs of vulnerable populations, health literacy, childhood obesity prevention, mental health, behaviour change, and community development, employing participatory approaches and a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. Her recent work includes assessing organisational health literacy responsiveness and co-creating interventions for responsive systems.
Ana Rita Goes is involved in two Health Literacy Development Projects within the WHO initiative, launched by the World Health Organization for the European region. She is also part of the working group for the WHO National Health Literacy Project. She participated in the ECDC Training Project on Vaccination for Primary Healthcare Professionals, led by ASPHER, and was selected by the ECDC as an external expert in the call for Public Health Training Specialists for Infectious Diseases.
Previously, she worked as a research fellow at the University of Lisbon and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Catholic Faculty of Human Sciences and Lusófona University.
Ana Rita Goes holds a PhD in Health Psychology from the University of Lisbon, a Master’s in Public Health from NOVA NSPH, and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon.
