Ana Patrícia Hilário is a Research Fellow and Co-Coordinator of the LIFE Research Group at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa. She is the Coordinator of the Portuguese team and Work Package Leader of the VAX-TRUST project. She was the Co-Coordinator of the Research Network of Sociology of Health and Illness of the European Sociological Association. Ana Patrícia earned her PhD in Sociology from the Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2015.