Etelvina Andreu Sánchez (born 1969) is the General Director of Consumer and Citizen Services of the Spanish Ministry of Health and Social Politics. In addition to her political career, she has also specialised in research into the

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Background

Andreu was born in

Alicante Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in t ...

on 6 March 1969. She holds a degree in physics from the

University of Valencia The University of Valencia ( ca-valencia, Universitat de València ; also known as UV) is a public research university located in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is one of the oldest surviving universities in Spain, and the oldest in the Vale ...

, and a doctoral degree in medicine from the

University of Alicante The University of Alicante ( ca-valencia, Universitat d'Alacant, italic=no, ; es, Universidad de Alicante, italic=no, ; also known by the acronym ''UA'') was established in 1979 on the basis of the Center for University Studies (CEU), which was fo ...

Career

She started her professional career as a researcher at the

, and later she worked as a professor at the Miguel Hernández University. She co-authored several well-cited papers on the functioning of the

. In 2004 she was appointed as the representative of the Spanish government ('' Subdelegada del Gobierno'') in Alicante. In the municipal elections of 2007, Etelvina Andreu Sánchez was the

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( es, Partido Socialista Obrero Español ; PSOE ) is a social-democraticThe PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources: * * * * political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in gov ...

(''Partido Socialista'') candidate for the mayor post of

. She lost the elections by about 4,000 votes to the People's Party (''Partido Popular''), however this was the best of performance of the socialists in

since 1983. On 25 April 2008, Etelvina Andreu was appointed the General Director of Consumer and Citizen Services of the Ministry of Health and Social Politics. She is closely linked with the Minister

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, with whom she crossed during her academic career.

Selected publications

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References

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