She holds a PhD degree in Pediatric Dentistry from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Her research focuses on investigating the impact of some diagnostic and therapeutic strategies to control dental caries in children. Dr. Braga has been also coordinating multi-institutional initiatives to improve teaching and learning in the study of dental caries and their development (cariology) among undergraduate students. She is working at CHEPA as a visiting research post-doc fellow under the supervision of Stephen Birch and Amiram Gafni. She is measuring the economic impact of early caries detection and treatment in children. This is part of a Brazilian-funded clinical trial (CARDEC-02) linked to a series of clinical trials related to diagnostic strategies for dental caries (NCT02473107).