Profile

Medical Doctor (1970). Head of Hospital Internal Medicine Service (1988). Full Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon (1998-2017). Director General of Health (2001-2005). High Commissioner for Health (2001-2006). President of the Doctor Ricardo Jorge National Health Institute (2006-2014). Member of the WHO Executive Board (2005-2008). Distinguished with the Gold Medal for Distinguished Services from the Ministry of Health (2008) and the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Portuguese Republic (2015). Corresponding member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (2019).