Jeannette Vega

Jeanette del Rosario Vega Morales (born 11 October 1957) is a Chilean politician and physician. Between March and August 2022, she served as Chile's Minister of Social Development and Family.

On 25 August 2022, Vega resigned following a news report that one of her advisers, on her behalf, had contacted a Mapuche indigenous terrorist leader Héctor Llaitul who had called for an armed struggled against the state and who was arrested the day before.

Biography Family and education She is the daughter of civil engineer Pedro Octavio Vega Marín and María Rosa Morales Umaña.

She completed her primary and secondary education at the Liceo 7 of Santiago. She pursued undergraduate studies at the University of Chile and later specialised in family medicine. Years later, she completed a PhD in public health at the University of Illinois in the United States. Subsequently, between 2003 and 2007, she worked at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva (Switzerland). At the international organisation, she served as director of the Department of Equity, Poverty and Social Determinants of Health.