Teresa Forcades

Sister Teresa Forcades i Vila, O.S.B.

Born	1966 (age 50–51) Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Alma mater	University of Barcelona, Harvard University,
Occupation	Benedictine nun
Known for	Christian feminism, public health activism, Catalan independence activism

Teresa Forcades i Vila, O.S.B. (Catalan pronunciation: [t(ə)ˈɾɛzə fuɾˈkaðəs]; born 1966), is a Catalan physician and a Benedictine nun. She is a social activist, focusing on public health. She has gained an international reputation for her criticisms of the pharmaceutical industry. She is also a controversial writer on pseudoscientific remedies, Christian feminism and Catalan independence.

Born in Barcelona in 1966, Forcades grew up in a home where her parents rejected religion. She was sent, however, to the private Sacred Heart school, where she discovered religious faith through the study of the Bible given by the religious sisters who ran the school. She went on to study medicine at the University of Barcelona. In 1992 she moved to the United States, where in 1995 she completed a residency at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine, specializing in internal medicine. After obtaining a scholarship, she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she gained the degree of Master of Divinity from the Harvard Divinity School in 1997.