Inês Fronteira, RN, MPH, PhD in International Health – Health policy. Assistant Professor at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the NOVA University of Lisbon. Member of the Scientific Council of the Research Center Global Health and Tropical Medicine and coordinator of the Cross Cuting Issue Public Health Information. Leader of the Portuguese team of the European Observatory of Health Systems. Counselor of the National Ethics Council for Life Sciences. Editor in chief of BMC Human Resources for Health. Researcher in several national and international projects. Works in the area of Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Health Services and Policies and Human Resources for Health.