Ruy López Ridaura is a Mexican

epidemiologist Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population, and application of this knowledge to prevent diseases. It is a cornerstone ...

, author and infectious diseases expert who has served as head of the

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of the

Secretariat of Health The Secretariat of Health ( Spanish: ''Secretaría de Salud'') is the government department in charge of all social health services in Mexico, and an integral part of the Mexican health system. The Secretary of Health is a member of the Executive ...

of Mexico. Since January 2020, he has been one of the lead members of the task force addressing the

COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico The COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico is part of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide pandemic of COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The virus was confirmed to hav ...

Career

Education

López Ridaura attended the

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of the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

(UNAM) graduating in 1994 as Physician-Surgeon. At that time he has been friend of

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. Afterwards, he obtained a master's degree in Clinic Epidemiology at UNAM in 2000, and later a Ph.D degree in

nutritional epidemiology Nutritional epidemiology examines dietary and nutritional factors in relation to disease occurrence at a population level. Nutritional epidemiology is a relatively new field of medical research that studies the relationship between nutrition and ...

from the

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school at Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. It was named after Hong Kong entrepreneur Chan Tseng-hsi in 2014 following a US$350 ...

Public service

From 1998 to 2000 he was a physician at

Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition The National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition "Salvador Zubirán" (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán) is one of the twelve national institutes part of the Mexican Secretariat of Health (Mexic ...

(INCMNSZ). From 2005 to 2007 López Ridaura was responsible for the Chronic Diseases Study Division at the National Institute of Public Health (INSP). From 2007 he is head and lead researcher of the Research Unit in Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk at the same institute. Since 2007 he is director and main researcher of the ''Study of the Health of Teachers'' (in Spanish: ''Cohorte Esmaestras'') project, a long-term project dedicated to the study of the development of chronic diseases in female Mexican teachers. From 2013 to 2014 he was a visiting researcher at the research institute of the

Hospital Universitario La Paz The Hospital Universitario La Paz (HULP) is a large teaching hospital in Madrid, Spain. It is a general tertiary hospital situated in the La Paz neighbourhood, an area in the north of the Spanish capital that takes its name from the hospital. It ...

in Spain. As a teacher López Ridaura is a member of the faculties of INSP and INSSZ. In 2020 he joined the task force addressing the

. He has conducted the daily press conference where the Secretariat of Health directives are giving information about the pandemic.

Honors and awards

* Member of the

National System of Researchers Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National System of Researchers) or SNI is a governmental agency established in Mexico in 1984 to promote both the quantity and quality of research in Mexico, especially in the sciences. In the 1980s, the countr ...

, 2014

References

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