Sonia Dias is the Dean and Full Professor at the National School of Public Health, NOVA University Lisbon. She has a PhD in International Health. She is a public health specialist and social scientist with 20 years of experience in health promotion and disease prevention, behavioural and social sciences, implementation science, stakeholder engagement, health literacy, and knowledge translation. She has extensive experience in public health research projects in Europe and Portuguese-speaking African countries, driven to address health inequalities, with a focus on supporting the design, implementation, and evaluation of complex interventions and health policies, employing participatory health research and mixed-methods approaches. Currently, Prof. Sonia Dias is the President of the Section on Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health, European Public Health Association. She is highly engaged in several scientific networks and has acted as a consultant for several international organisations. Prof. Sonia Dias has authored more than 150 scientific publications.