Sara Rocha Biography

Sara Rocha is a representative of the European Council of Autistic People and co-founder and President of Associação Portuguesa Voz do Autista, the first self-advocacy non-profit for autistic people in Portugal. She has a degree in Biomedical Sciences and a MSc in Healthcare management and Economics. She is an expert in healthcare data and public health information and works as a Data Manager for the School of Clinical Medicine in the University of Cambridge, and is trained as an Infodemics Management by the World Health Organization.

Sara has been involved with several European and international campaigns, trainings and projects in Autism and Disability, such as the development of training for medical services to support autistic people in emergency situations, support programmes for disabled women and girls victims of violence, mental health support projects, and others.