Rui Pedro Gomes Pereira, born in Angra do Heroísmo (Terceira Island), Azores - Portugal. PhD in Nursing Sciences by the Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar of the Porto University (2016). Master in Sociology - Specialisation in Sociology of Health by the Institute of Social Sciences of the Minho University (2009). Degree in Community Nursing by the Department of Nursing Sciences of the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University - Braga (2000). Bachelor of Science in Nursing by the School of Nursing of Angra do Heroísmo (1996). He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Minho - Nursing School and Researcher of the Research Unit in Health Sciences: Nursing (UICISA:E), Nursing School of Coimbra - UMinho Centre. He is also a researcher at the Nursing Research Centre of the Nursing School of the University of Minho (CIEnf). Since 2000, he holds the professional title of Clinical Specialist Nurse in Community Nursing by the Portuguese Order of Nurses. Main areas of interest, teaching and research: Health Care Informed by Evidence and Knowledge Translation; Health Related Quality of Life; Advanced Intervention in Wounds; Occupational Health Nursing; Public Health Nursing: Health Planning, Immunisation and Vaccination, Priority Health Programmes, Health Inequalities and Relations Health and Society.