Patrícia Vasconcelos Leitão Moreira is currently a full professor in the Nutrition Department at the Federal University of Paraíba. She graduated in Dentistry in 1997 and specializes in Pediatric Dentistry and Family Health. She holds a PhD in Pediatric Dentistry and a postdoctoral degree in Epidemiology from the University of Liverpool. She has worked in Public Health since 2005 and has coordinated several research projects, the most notable being MODELA-SUS, which involved chronic noncommunicable diseases, ultra-processed foods, and modeling. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Studies in Health and Nutrition at UFPB and the Health Research Laboratory.