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Manuel Pizarro

Manuel Pizarro

Minister of Health of Portugal

Manuel Pizarro holds a medical degree and is a specialist in internal medicine at Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de São João and was medical director of Hospital da Ordem da Trindade, both hospitals in Porto, his hometown. He was a member of the Portuguese parliament (2005-2013) and a member of the Parliament Committee for Health as well as secretary of state for health from 2008-2009 and deputy minister for health from 2009-2011. Pizarro was also councillor for Porto Municipality from 2013-2021, a member of European Parliament from 2019, and chair of the Socialist delegation at the European Parliament since 2022. He was High Commissioner of the National Health Convention, a permanent platform between Health partners and citizens, bringing together more than 150 entities from the public, private and social sectors that work in the area of Health in Portugal. Manuel Pizarro has been serving as the Minister of Health of Portugal since September 2022.