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Dr. Ricardo Baptista Leite, MD is a medical doctor trained in infectious diseases, with extensive experience in global health, health systems and science-based policy making.

Dr. Baptista Leite served four terms as a Member of Parliament in Portugal on Health and Foreign Affairs committees, is currently a city councilor in Sintra, served as Deputy Mayor of Cascais, and as Head of Public Health at the Catholic University of Portugal.

Dr. Baptista Leite is Founder and President of the UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health ( https://www.unitenetwork.org/ ), a network of current and former policymakers from 110 countries committed towards the promotion of efficient and sustainable policies for improved global health systems, in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Dr. Baptista Leite is also CEO of HealthAI - The Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health ( https://www.healthai.agency/ ) in Geneva; Chair of the Board of the Harvard-Charité Global Health Policy Lab ( https://www.globalhealthpolicylab.org/about-us ) in Berlin; and Chair of the Centre for Global Health at NOVA University Information Management School ( https://www.novaims.unl.pt/en/nova-ims/labs/nova-center-for-global-health-lab/ ) where he also has teaching and research responsibilities at the department of Microbiology and Parasitology.

Dr. Baptista Leite completed postgraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Baptista Leite was a practicing physician for several years, including an internship at the World Health Organization. He was a medical volunteer during the COVID-19 pandemic in his hometown hospital in Portugal and as part of a humanitarian mission at the Lviv Regional Hospital in Ukraine after the beginning of the war.

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