DrDaniela Sofia Albino Costa

Daniela Costa is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the RCSI School of Physiotherapy, awarded with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship, and mentored by Prof. Helen French. Her project, SPECs-OA (Social PrEscribing integration in the Care Pathway for people with OsteoArthritis), explores if and how social prescribing can be integrated in the healthcare management of people living with osteoarthritis, using quantitative and qualitative study designs and realist methods.

She holds a PhD in Public Health (Epidemiology) from the NOVA National School of Public Health, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal (2023). Supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) and Pfizer, her doctoral research project analysed the prevalence, severity and impact of osteoarthritis in Portugal and made contriutions to the development of a national model of care.