Daniel Simões is a Psychologist working in the third sector since 2004. Currently Monitoring and Evaluation manager at Coalition PLUS, he collaborates with GAT (Portugal) since 2011 in both project management and policy/advocacy activities. He is the co-chair of EUROTEST, member of the European Testing Week working group, of the European AIDS Treatment Group and the WHO European Laboratory Initiative core group. Daniel is currently finishing his PhD in Global Public Health at the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto, in Portugal.