Nélson Martins

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Nélson Martins (2020)

Nélson Eduardo Soares Martins (born August 1970 in Vila Verde , Portuguese Timor ) is an East Timorese doctor and politician. From 2007 to 2012 he was the country's health minister.

Career

At the age of five, Martins had to watch his father be killed in political unrest. When he was 17 he joined the East Timorese pro-independence student movement RENETIL led by Fernando de Araújo . On November 19, 1991 Martins took part in a demonstration in Jakarta , against the Santa Cruz massacre , seven days earlier in Dili. He was then detained in Polda Metro Jaya Prison until December 4th . In 1992 he was a founding member of the Independent Student Movement Pro Timor-Leste Independence in Bandung . In 1994 Martins was arrested again by the Indonesians and taken to a military prison in Bandung. But he managed to escape with three other prisoners and hid in West Java for three months . In 1995 Martins joined the Brigada Negra .

Between 1995 and 1998 Martins also campaigned against child labor in Indonesia. Since July 1995 he was a member of the Indonesian labor movement. Martins played a leading role in the student protests that ultimately led to the abdication of the Indonesian dictator Suharto in 1998 . Martins had meanwhile been locked up and had lost his place at university and his scholarship. He then helped the FALINTIL resistance fighters in East Timor as a doctor . On August 9, 1998, Martins became the Health and Medical Coordinator for Region IV in the Independence Movement. From September 10th he was responsible for all of East Timor. One of his patients during this time was the guerrilla leader Taur Matan Ruak , who later became President of East Timor . In 1998 Martins received his MD .

During the UN administration of East Timor (1999-2002) Martins was a member of the Interim Health Authority , which later became the Ministry of Health . At that time he was general secretary of the democratic-socialist Partido Trabalhista (March 2000 – July 2007). He received his medical training in Bandung ( Indonesia ) and in Australia . In 2003 Martins enrolled at the Menzies School of Health Research at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory (Australia). During his studies he worked on a program to combat tuberculosis in East Timor, gaining experience in clinical medicine, public health and humanitarian work. His research focused on the National Tuberculosis Control Program, of which he was the founder. Martin's results are of interest to the world in tuberculosis control. In June 2007, Martins became the first East Timorese to graduate as a general practitioner with a Ph.D. The training was funded by the World Health Organization (WHO). Until his appointment as Minister of Health in April 2007, Martins worked in a research position as a post-doc at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine of the Medical School of the University of New South Wales in Sydney and as a volunteer lecturer in the Faculty of Health at the Universidade da Paz (UNPAZ) in Dili (East Timor). In parallel to his ministerial post, Martins also held the office of President of the National HIV / AIDS Commission.

After the parliamentary elections in East Timor in 2012 , Martins handed over the ministerial post to his successor Sérgio Lobo on August 8, 2012 . At the end of 2013 Martins is director of postgraduate studies and research at the Universidade Nasionál Timór Lorosa'e (UNTL) and trains new East Timorese doctors. He is now Professor in the Faculty of Health at UNPAZ, Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science at UNTL and Associate Professor at the School of Public Health, School of Medicine .

From 2014 to 2015 he had an annual contract with the secretariat of the g7 + states as a senior researcher for the coordination and research of natural resources, public relations, the effectiveness of aid measures and the successes of the member states in the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals .

In 2013 Nélson Martins founded a new political party, the Movimentu Libertasaun ba Povu Mauchte (MLPM). On November 16, 2013, he was elected President of the party.

Web links

Commons : Nélson Martins  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d TDR: From doctor to researcher to minister of health , accessed December 13, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d e Nélson Martins ' Facebook page , accessed on December 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ Timor Post: Adérito Soares Lidera Partidu Libertasaun Popular , December 11, 2015 , accessed on December 11, 2015.
  4. ↑ MLPM's Facebook presence: Posting December 19 at 10:08 am, accessed on December 22, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Martins, Nélson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martins, Nélson Eduardo Soares (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese medic and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Vila Verde (Dili) , Portuguese Timor