About Ruy López-Ridaura
Ruy López-Ridaura was a Mexican surgeon, scientist, university teacher, civil servant and epidemiology.
Ruy López Ridaura is a Mexican epidemiologist, author and infectious diseases expert who has served as head of the National Center for Disease Control and Preventive Programs of the Secretariat of Health of Mexico. Since January 2020, he has been one of the lead members of the task force addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.
Career Education López Ridaura attended the School of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) graduating in 1994 as Physician-Surgeon. At that time he has been friend of Hugo López-Gatell. Afterwards, he obtained a master's degree in Clinic Epidemiology at UNAM in 2000, and later a Ph.D degree in nutritional epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Honors and awards Member of the National System of Researchers, 2014
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Mexican physician and official
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Ruy López-Ridaura was a surgeon, scientist, university teacher, civil servant and epidemiology.
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