Ricardo Baptista Leite
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office
1 July 2011 – 16 May 2023
ConstituencyLisbon
Member of the Sintra City Council
Assumed office
26 September 2021
Personal details
Born
Ricardo Augustus Guerreiro Baptista Leite

31 May 1980
Toronto, Canada
Citizenship
  • Portugal
  • Canada
Political partySocial Democratic Party (2000–present)
Alma materNOVA University Lisbon
ProfessionPublic health doctor
Websitehttps://www.ricardobaptistaleite.pt

Ricardo Augustus Guerreiro Baptista Leite (born 31 May 1980) is a Portuguese medical doctor, university professor, and politician.[1] He is a third term Member of the Portuguese National Parliament[2] and member of the Sintra City Council.[3][4] He also served as member of the Cascais Town-Hall Assembly, between 2005 and 2021. Baptista Leite is the Head of Public Health at the Catholic University of Portugal.[5]

Early life and education

Baptista Leite was born in Toronto, Canada, son of João Baptista Leite and Ana Maria Guerreiro Leite. He studied from pre-school until 5th grade at Regina Mundi Catholic School in Toronto.[6] In 1991, he moved with his family to Portugal were he completed 6th grade at the English-speaking St. Dominic's International School.[6] After learning how to speak Portuguese, he enrolled at Colégio Marista de Carcavelos.[6]

Baptista Leite enrolled at the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas of the NOVA University Lisbon, and obtained his medical degree in 2004.[7] In 2005, Baptista Leite completed a one-year general medical residency program at Fernando Fonseca Hospital, following which he enrolled in a five-year infectious diseases residency program.[7] After completing the first year of the program at Coimbra Hospital Centre, he moved back to Lisbon, having trained for more four years of the practical curricula of the residency program at Egas Moniz Hospital in July 2011.[7] He completed traineeships in microbiology, virology and intensive care medicine. He also completed an internship in public health at the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.[7]

Baptista Leite was a PhD candidate in Public Health and Health Systems at Maastricht University.[8]

Career

Baptista Leite is the Head of Public Health within the Research Center of the Instituto de Ciências da Saúde at the Catholic University of Portugal.[9] He is a member of the faculty with teaching and research responsibilities at the department of Microbiology and Parasitology at the NOVA Medical School of the NOVA University of Lisbon since 2007.[9] He is also a guest lecturer at the NOVA IMS (Information Management School) at NOVA University, where he is the coordinator of the curricular unit on Sustainable Healthcare.[9] For a brief period of time he was a medical consultant in the field of information technologies geared to healthcare.[9]

Baptista Leite founded the Creating Health - Research and Innovation Funding,[10] is co-founder of the Estoril Conferences, a member of the European Leadership Network[11] and of the 2015 European Young Leaders programme.[12] In 2014 and 2015, he published two books as the main author of Consenso estratégico para a gestão integrada da hepatite C em Portugal[13] and Cidadania para a Saúde,[14] focused on the role of citizens in health promotion and disease prevention. In 2020 he published Um caminho para a Cura, a book about the Portuguese National Health Service, and the future of public health policy.[15][16][17]

Baptista Leite was named, in 2016, by The Economist as a HCV Change Maker in recognition of his leadership in the field of hepatitis C.[18][19] The following year, he founded Unite – Global Parliamentarians Network to end HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis and other Infectious Diseases, under the auspices of UNAIDS and committed to ending these global health threats, in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals.[20] In 2019, he was made vice-president of The Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & International Monetary Fund.[21]

In 2020, Baptista Leite was invited to become a resident commentator on the cable news channel CMTV.[22]

Political activity

Baptista Leite was introduced into party politics in 2000 by Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.[23] At the time, he enrolled both in the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Social Democratic Youth (JSD), and one year later he was elected as member of São Domingos de Rana Town Hall Assembly, having completed the mandate in October 2005.[2]

Having left the Social Democratic Youth at the age limit of 30, Baptista Leite was voted as a lifetime honorary member of the organization at their XXI National Convention in 2010, in this same year as a member of the National Committee for Reviewing the PSD Political Program, "GENEPSD", mainly on issues associated with healthcare and local government.[24] Baptista Leite served as Director of the National Studies Cabinet,[25] and also chaired two educational political courses, where he promoted a debate between two former Prime Ministers of Portugal, from different parties, Francisco Pinto Balsemão from PSD and Mário Soares from PS.[26]

Baptista Leite was President of the Cascais Political Committee,[27] from 9 May 2008 to 9 June 2010. During this mandate, PSD won the European elections, and in Cascais the party achieved its greatest majority in recent democratic history, having elected António D'Orey Capucho as Mayor.[28]

Baptista Leite is an elected Member of Parliament[2] since 1 July 2011. He was Chair of the all-party Parliamentary HIV/AIDS work group.[29] He was also an elected member of the Cascais City Hall Assembly,[3][4] since 9 October 2005. As an MP, he was elected member of the supervisory board of the National Genetic Database Protection Agency,[30] and member of the Adisory Board for the national HIV-AIDS program from Direção-Geral da Saúde.[31]

Baptista Leite is a member of Parliamentarians for Global Action Network, since 2015 European Young Leaders Programme,[32] and the only Portuguese citizen invited to be part of the European Leadership Network.[33] He was also a member of the healthcare policy work group at the Francisco Sá Carneiro Institute, at the time presided over by Alexandre Relvas, and by invitation from the Institute's President, Carlos Carreiras.[34] In 2018, he was chosen for the Marshall Memorial Fellowship, one of the leadership development programs of the German Marshall Fund.[35]

In 2019, Baptista Leite was elected vice-president of the parliamentary board of the Social Democratic Party, responsible for Health, Culture and Communication, Agriculture, and member of the Foreign Affairs committee.[2] He has now founded Unite Network.[36] He is a fellow of the Millennium leadership programme at the Atlantic Council.[37] He is also appointed as CEO of I-DAIR.[38]

Publications

  • Consenso estratégico para a gestão integrada da hepatite C em Portugal, Lisboa, Universidade Católica Editora, 2014
  • Cidadania para a Saúde, Lisboa, Universidade Católica Editora, 2015
  • Um Caminho para a Cura, Lisboa, Leya, 2020

References

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  3. 1 2 "Assembleia Municipal de Cascais - 2009/2013" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 29 May 2011. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
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  12. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. ↑ Leite, Ricardo Baptista; Lopes, Henrique; Marinho, Rui Tato; Peixe, Paula (2014). Consenso estratégico para a gestão integrada da hepatite C em Portugal. Universidade Católica Editora. ISBN 978-972-54-0411-9.
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  16. ↑ "Um Caminho para a Cura". www.cmjornal.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 4 December 2020.
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  33. ↑ "Home". www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  34. ↑ Órgãos de Gestão do Instituto Francisco Sá Carneiro
  35. ↑ "Ricardo Baptista Leite selecionado pelo German Marshall Fund". Semanario SOL (in Portuguese). Retrieved 30 July 2020.
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