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 Universidade Aberta, and a degree in Sociology from ISCTE.

She worked as a Research Assistant Professor at the Arnold School of Public Health and at the Office for the Study of Aging, and as a Research Associate at the Center for Child and Family Studies at the University of South Carolina. At the Universidade Aberta she began her teaching career (Assistant) in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and as a researcher at the Center for Migration Studies and Intercultural Relations. She has also collaborated as a researcher and/or teacher, 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 as a collaborator at 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 ageing, and migration, using quantitative and qualitative methodologies. She has also worked in the area of social program evaluation. Her research has been published in the journals 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