Ricardo Baptista Leite MP, MD, is a Medical Doctor trained in Infectious Diseases. He is also a Member of the National Parliament of Portugal since 2011 and Vice-President of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Parliamentary Board, responsible for the Health Parliamentary Committee on behalf of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). Ricardo is Founder and President of ‘UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health’, a global platform of current and former members of parliaments, congresses and senates, present in more than 95 countries and an official partner of the World Health Organization. He is Vice Chair of the Parliamentary Network on the World BANK/IMF and Global Ambassador of the G20 Health & Development Partnership. Regarding his academic affiliations, Ricardo is Chair of the ‘Centre for Global Health’ at the NOVA Information Management and Data Science School - NOVA IMS -, and Guest Lecturer at Nova Medical School, both at NOVA University. For many years, Ricardo has been an advocate, public speaker and author on several matters of health policy, public and global health, global and local governance and digital transformation.