Filipa Duarte-Ramos is assistant professor at Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Health Technologies Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon since 2012, where she teaches since 2001. Filipa’s research interests are related to the investigation of health determinants, in particular the study of the positive and negative outcomes from the use of medicines by the population. She is also interested in the study of drug utilization in special populations or conditions. Filipa currently serves as a member of the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance at the European Medicines Agency (ENCePP – EMA) Special Interest Group in Drug Safety in Pregnancy. She represents the Faculty of Pharmacy in the plenary meetings of the ENCePP since 2011. She is co-coordinator of the Portuguese Observatory of Health Systems (OPSS). In 2016, the study Pharmacoepidemiology of transthyretin familial amyloid polyneuropathy in Portugal was the winner of Professora Doutora Maria Odette Santos-Ferreira Award, a scientific prize delivered by the Portuguese National Pharmacists Order.