Dr. Lucila Castanheira Nascimento is a Professor at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Brazil. She is also the Head of the Department of Maternal–Infant and Public Health Nursing. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing from the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing in 1991, her Master’s degree in Nursing from the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing in 1999, and her Ph.D. in Nursing in 2003 from the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Brazil and the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. She did her post-doctoral studies at the University of Alberta School of Nursing in 2005. During her academic career, she served as the Vice Dean of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development (2007–2012), and the Vice-President (2006–2008) and President (2008–2010) of the Rho Upsilon Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International, the Honor Society of Nursing, Brazil. She is currently a member of the Research Committee of EER/USP, a board member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honorary Nursing Society, Rho Upsilon Chapter and a founding member of the International Family Nursing Association. Dr. Nascimento has developed multi-center collaborative projects with foreign cooperation with researchers from Canada, the United States, Portugal and Spain and has more than a hundred publications, published in high-quality journals.