Marta Temido
Marta Alexandra Fartura Braga Temido de Almeida Simões (born March 2, 1974 in Coimbra ) is a Portuguese health economist and politician. Since 2018 she has been a non-party health minister in the Portuguese government .
Life
Temido studied health economics and administration at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra and then did a PhD in international health at the Hygiene and Tropical Institute of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa . She also completed a law degree at the University of Coimbra.
She specialized in hospital management at the Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública , the Portuguese School of Public Health at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
She was an invited assistant at the Pharmaceutical Faculty of the University of Coimbra and at the Hygiene and Tropical Institute of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, of which she later also became sub-director.
From 2015 to 2017 she was President of the Management Board of Administração Central do Sistema de Saúde, IP , the central administration of the Portuguese public health system . For years she headed various hospital administrations and was president of the Portuguese Association of Hospital Administrators , the Associação Portuguesa de Administradores Hospitalares . She was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Red Cross .
She has published a number of specialist books and articles in journals, alone and as a co-author .
On October 15, 2018, she was appointed to his first cabinet by Prime Minister António Costa , succeeding Adalberto Campos Fernandes , who had been Minister of Health since the first Costa cabinet was established on November 26, 2015.
She also remained Minister of Health in the following second Costa cabinet from October 26, 2019. In her function, she was one of the main people responsible for the rapid and extensive, comparatively successful measures after the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal from March 2, 2020.
Web links
- Profile of Maria Temidos on the government website (Portuguese and English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Profile of Minister Maria temido on the government website, accessed on April 22, 2020
- ↑ Marta temido é a nova ministra da Saúde - "Marta Temido is the new health minister" , article from October 15, 2018 in the medical newspaper Jornal Médico , accessed on April 22, 2020
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SURNAME | Temido, Marta |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Temido de Almeida Simões, Marta Alexandra Fartura Braga (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese doctor and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 2nd 1974 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Coimbra , Portugal |