Lidia Amarales
National Director of the National Service for the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Drug and Alcohol Consumption of Chile
In office
May 20, 2014 – April 10, 2015
PresidentMichelle Bachelet
Preceded byFrancisca Florenzano Valdés
Succeeded byMariano Montenegro Corona
Undersecretary of Public Health of Chile
In office
March 11, 2006 – January 14, 2008
PresidentMichelle Bachelet
Preceded byCecilia Villavicencio Rosas
Succeeded byJeannette Vega Morales
Personal details
Born1953 (68-69 years old)
Providencia, Chile
Political partyParty for Democracy (present)
Communist Party
Spouse
Eric Román Carrasco
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(m. 1974)​
Alma materCatholic University of Chile
OccupationSurgeon and politician

Lidia Magdalena Amarales Osorio is a Chilean politician and surgeon.[1] She is a member of the Party for Democracy (PPD). She served as Undersecretary of Public Health of her country during the first government of Michelle Bachelet between 2006 and 2008.[2][3][4]

Early life and education

She was born in Santiago de Chile, the daughter of Jorge Amarales Aspinall and Marta Lidia Osorio Prich. She completed her higher studies as a medical surgeon at the University of Chile, and then studied for a master's in public health, specializing in pediatrics and childhood respiratory diseases.[5][6][7]

Career

Between 1994 and 2011, she worked as a co-investigator and coordinator in Punta Arenas for the project "International Study of Asthma and Allergy in Children" (ISAAC), sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO). In that same commune, she worked for twenty years in the Pediatrics and Pediatric Bronchopulmonary Units of the Hospital Clínico de Magallanes Dr. Lautaro Navarro Avaria. There, she served as the head and coordinator of the “Acute Respiratory Infections” (ARI) program.[8][9]

Later, under the government of President Ricardo Lagos, she was in charge of the Ministerial Regional Secretariat (Seremi) of Health of the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica. During the first government of Michelle Bachelet, she served as head of the Undersecretary of Public Health between 2006 and 2008.[10][11]

During the second government of Michelle Bachelet, she was appointed as national director of the National Service for the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Drug and Alcohol Consumption (SENDA), under the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security. She left the position in April 2015, after she was not considered by the High Public Management on the shortlist for which the person who would lead the institution until 2018 would come out. After that, she became the co-founder of the "Tobacco Free Chile Foundation".[12][13]

References

  1. ↑ "Gob.cl - Artículo: Autoridades Presentan Plan De Difusión En Prevención, Seguridad Y Autocuidado En Fiestas Patrias". Gobierno de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  2. ↑ "Lidia Amarales y manejo "hospitalocéntrico" del Covid-19: "Este error nos está costando muy caro"". tv.emol.com. 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  3. ↑ "Gob.cl - Artículo: Gobierno Lanza Campaña Para Evitar Accidentes De Tránsito En Nuestro País Durante El Mundial 2014". Gobierno de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  4. ↑ "Subsecretaría del Interior – Ministerio del Interior y Seguridad Pública – Gobierno de Chile". www.subinterior.gob.cl. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  5. ↑ "Superintendencia participa en Lanzamiento IX Campaña Comunicacional en Prevención de VIH, organizada en el Colegio Puerto Montt". Sala de Prensa. Superintendencia de Salud, Gobierno de Chile. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  6. ↑ Ltda, Iflexus. "DOCTORA AMARALES DIJO QUE MUCHOS TUVIERON MIEDO DE PERDER ESTAS ELECCIONES POR EL DISCURSO LLENO DE ODIO, DE DESCALIFICACIONES, DE MENTIRAS DEL OTRO CANDIDATO". RADIO POLAR (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  7. ↑ "Senda potenciará su trabajo en el tratamiento y la prevención del consumo de drogas". Intendencia de Arica y Parinacota. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  8. ↑ "Magallánica Lidia Amarales no quedó en la terna para el cargo de directora de Senda". elpinguino.com. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  9. ↑ "Salud Lidia Amarales : EnVivo hablar cambios ley tabaco Canal subsecretaria Salud Lidia Amarales". Scoopnest (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  10. ↑ "Amarales Osorio Lidia – Anales de la República" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  11. ↑ pauta. "Lidia Amarales: No puede ser casual que todos los últimos brotes son grupos de pesqueras". pauta (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  12. ↑ "Lidia Amarales: "Si la población conociera todo lo que la industria tabacalera hace de lobby, quedaría realmente impresionada" « Diario y Radio Universidad Chile". radio.uchile.cl (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  13. ↑ Allaire, Giovanna Beratto. "Dra. Lidia Amarales: "Las patologías que más matan y enferman tienen como factor de riesgo al tabaco" RespiraLibre" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-07-27.
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