Cristina Maria Figueira Veríssimo, graduated in nursing (1989 – Portugal) with specialized studies in Community nursing (1997), master’s degree in Public Health from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra. She is finishing her Ph.D. at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She is an Adjunct Professor at the Nursing School of Coimbra on Public Health, Community and Family Health Nursing and also a researcher at the Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing, where she collaborates in several intervention projects and research in the field of violence prevention, in intimate relationships in young people, where the project "Gender, health and development" is included, and in the area of family and community health. Supervisor of master’s dissertations and post-graduation students. She is also a member of professional societies - Ordem dos Enfermeiros Portugueses; Chapter Phi Xi – Sigma Theta Tau International.