Marina Geli i Fàbrega (born 12 September 1958,
Sant Gregori) was the health minister of the
Generalitat de Catalunya from 2003 to 2010. She is considered one of the most prominent members of the
Catalanist wing of the
Socialists' Party of Catalonia.
Geli obtained her medical degree from the
University of Barcelona. She was an intern at the
Hospital Josep Trueta in
Girona from 1981 to 1990. She became a specialist in the treatment of infectious diseases and
AIDS
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. She was also involved in several associations related to the fight against AIDS.
She also was town councillor for Sant Gregori (1982–1990) and county councillor for Girona, during the same period.
She is president of the Committee for Social Policy in the period 1996-1999 in the
Catalan Parliament and Spokesperson for Social Policy in the sixth legislature.
She became policy manager and First Secretary of the
PSC for the region of
Girona in 2000.
Ms. Geli is married with two children.
References
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1958 births
Health ministers of Catalonia
Living people
People from Gironès
Socialists' Party of Catalonia politicians
Spanish women physicians
University of Barcelona alumni
Women politicians from Catalonia