• Medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine of Porto University (2009). 
• Post-graduation in Occupational Medicine (Faculty of Medicine of Coimbra University 2011)
• Post-graduation in Travel Medicine (Faculty of Medicine of Porto University 2013)
• Public Health PhD at Public Health Institute of Porto – Prison Tuberculosis Control (ongoing)
• Additional courses, including: Introduction to mathematical models of the Epidemiology and Control Of Infectious Diseases (Imperial College 2013), Clinical Scholars Research Training (Harvard Medical School 2020-2022)

• Medical public health specialist with expertise in field epidemiology and public health surveillance. 
• Ten years of work history at national, regional, local governmental, non-governmental organizations in Portugal.
• Part of a advisory group to the Portuguese Government in Covid-19 pandemic management (https://covid19.min-saude.pt/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Linhas-Vermelhas.pdf)

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

• Teixeira, P. M., Brito, D. V., Araújo, R., & Gomes, B. (2021). Risk Communication and Community Engagement in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Portugal. Acta medica portuguesa, 34(1), 1-2.
• Cabral, P., Gomes, B., & Felgueiras, M. (2020). Certezas Incertas: Desafios Próximos no Diagnóstico Laboratorial da COVID-19. Acta med. port.
• Gomes, B. M., & Carvalho, I. (2021). Tuberculosis—Reaping benefits from COVID-19 in Portugal. Pulmonology, 27(1), 4-6.
• Branco, M., Alves, I., Martins da Silva, A., Pinheiro, J., Sá, M. J., Correia, I., ... & Ruano, L. (2020). The epidemiology of multiple sclerosis in the entre Douro e Vouga region of northern Portugal: a multisource population-based study. BMC neurology, 20, 1-7.
• Gomes, B., Molina-Correa, G., Neves-Reina, L., Oliveira, A. C., Macedo, R., Carvalho, C., & Correia, A. M. (2020). Poly-resistant tuberculosis outbreak in Northern Portugal: a nine year tale. Pulmonology, 26(6), 412-414. 
• Mendes, A., Gomes, B., Sousa, L., Moreira, H., Rosa, I., Marques, S., ... & Neto, M. (2020). Brucellosis: A rapid risk assessment by a regional outbreak team and its coordinated response with the Directorate‐General for Food and Veterinary, North region of Portugal, 2019. Zoonoses and public health, 67(5), 587-590.
• Santos, C. J., Gomes, B., & Ribeiro, A. I. (2020). Mapping geographical patterns and high rate areas for sexually transmitted infections in Portugal: A retrospective study based on the national epidemiological surveillance system. Sexually transmitted diseases, 47(4), 261-268.
• Correia, A. M., Ferreira, J. S., Borges, V., Nunes, A., Gomes, B., Capucho, R., ... & Gomes, J. P. (2016). Probable person-to-person transmission of Legionnaires' disease. The New England journal of medicine, 374(5), 497-498.