Bárbara received a degree in Nutrition (2008) and a doctorate in Public Health Nutrition (2014) from the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo, where she currently holds a faculty position at the Department of Nutrition and is an advisor in the Graduate Program in Public Health Nutrition. Barbara has experience in public health nutrition, with an emphasis in nutritional epidemiology, developing activities mainly related to evaluation of nutritional status, maternal and child health, and analysis of longitudinal data.