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Please note: This is a hybrid event. For those who wish to attend in-person, please RSVP by emailing (Giuseppina.Dimaggio@sph.cuny.edu).
Those who are unable to attend in person will be able to tune in to a livestream of the lecture via Zoom. Virtual attendees who RSVP will receive the livestream link after registering.
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The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics presents its first forum of the Fall semester with Dr. Javier Padilla Bernáldez, Secretary of Health for Spain.
The subject of Dr. Padilla’s lecture, “Shaping the Spanish National Health System with a Global Health Perspective,” will discuss how the needs of framing public policies in a global context is even bigger when talking about health systems. Public health emergencies, health workforce crisis or access to innovations are some of the problems that urge national governments to align domestic and global policies when dealing with health issues.
In Spain, the recently approved Spanish Global Health Strategy is coherent with domestic policies in fields such as health workforce, preparedness and response or R&D, trying to perform, globally and nationally, public health policies centered in universal access and equity.
Dr. Padilla is a family and community doctor with a background in health economics, public health, and philosophy. He has a Degree in Medicine (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), a master’s degree in Public Health and Health Management, and a Master’s degree in Health and Drug Economics.
He worked as a Resident Medical Intern at the Andalusian Health Service from 2008 to 2012, then served as a Family and Community Physician in the Madrid Health Service between 2015 and 2021. Following this, he was a Regional Deputy for Más Madrid from 2021 to 2023.
Because of his interest in social justice and ending inequality in the provision of healthcare and other public services in Madrid, Dr. Padilla serves as Spain’s Secretary of State for Health since November 2023. He is the author of several popular books on health and health care, such as: ¿A quién dejemos morir? (Who do we let die?, 2019), Epidemiocracía (Epidemiocracy, 2020), Malestamos (We are bad, 2022), as well as co-coordinator of Salubrismo o barbarie (2017). He enjoys reading and traveling, and has a 7-year-old daughter with whom she likes to spend as much time as possible (as often as work allows).
