Carla Sofia e Sá Farinha

Carla Sofia Farinha graduated from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, with a bachelor's degree in agronomics engineering in 1992, a master's degree in science of agronomics engineering in 1997, and an MBA from Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, Portugal, in 2000. Her doctoral dissertation at Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal was titled "Assessment of Sustainability Implementation in Public Policies and Strategies in Portuguese Public Universities" (2020). She holds a postgraduate degree in "Public Finances in Public Administration" from the University Institute of Lisbon, ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal (2022), and she also works as a research collaborator at the Center for Sustainability and Environmental Research (CENSE) at the Nova University of Lisbon in Lisbon, Portugal. As a Senior Expert on Statistics, she works for Statistics Portugal in Lisbon. Her main areas of research are global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors (GBD), as well as education for sustainable development and sustainable development goals. She is a GBD Collaborator and a member of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Washington)-funded Institute of Health and Metrics Evaluation (University of Washington), which manages the GBD health financing collaborator network. She has already authored or co-authored more than 80 works, including one for the General Directorate of Health where she oversaw the Portuguese team's work with IHME (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) on the organization's first policy report on Portuguese health, titled Portugal: The Nation's Health 1990-2016: An overview of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 Results. In addition, she reviews articles for the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, published by Emerald, as well as the Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier, and Sustainability, MDPI.