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Ricardo Baptista Leite

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Dr. Ricardo is a Portuguese Canadian medical doctor with extensive experience in global health, health systems, infectious diseases and science-based policy making, and is currently based in Geneva and CEO of ‘HealthAI – The Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health’. Dr. Baptista Leite was a 4-term Member of Parliament in Portugal (2011-2023) and is city councillor in Sintra, having served in the past as deputy mayor of Cascais. Dr. Ricardo is also founder and president of ‘UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health’, a network of current and former policy makers from +110 countries in collaboration with the WHO.

With +15 years of academic experience, he is chair of the ‘Harvard-Charité Global Health Policy Lab’, based in Berlin, and Chair of the ‘Centre for Global Health’ at NOVA University Information Management and Data Science School (NOVA IMS), based in Lisbon. 

Prior to his role in parliament, Dr. Baptista Leite was a practicing physician for 7 years, including a 5-year infectious diseases residency and an internship at WHO. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he volunteered as a medical doctor in the Cascais Hospital COVID Emergency Room from March 2020 to May 2021. In the summer of 2022, he served as a medical volunteer at the Lviv Regional Hospital to support humanitarian efforts during the ongoing war in Ukraine.