Maria João Salvador Costa is a Specialist Nurse in Community and Public Health Nursing working in a research project at the the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Health at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto since 2021, focused on the role of Nursing in Climate Change and funded by FEDER and HORIZON EUROPE. She is a Year 3 student affiliated within a Nursing PhD program at the same University, in the Lisbon Campus. Fellow of the HE, she is an experienced lecturer in nursing, having worked in London, UK as a nurse lecturer and as the Program Adult Lead between 2018 and 2021, applying the most advanced higher education paradigms and L&T strategies. She has recently initiated her work as an author, and co-author in several publications including book chapters, Special Issues of scientific journals, and indexed journals in the fields of Community Nursing and Public Health, Environmental Nursing, Community Empowerment and School Health Nursing.