Carla Vizzotti

Carla Vizzotti (born 1 June 1972) is an Argentine physician specialized in vaccine-preventable diseases. Since 2019 she has been Secretary of Health Access and Vice Minister of Health in Argentina's Health Ministry, working under Minister Ginés González García.

Carla Vizzotti
Secretary of Health Access
Assumed office
19 December 2019
PresidentAlberto Fernández
Preceded byOffice established
Personal details
Born (1972-04-01) 1 April 1972
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alma materUniversidad del Salvador
OccupationPhysician, public official

Education and career

Vizzotti was born on 1 June 1972 in Buenos Aires, daughter of a gastroenterologist.[1] She studied medicine at the Universidad del Salvador, graduating in 1997. She specialized in internal medicine at the University of Buenos Aires. She founded and presides the Sociedad Argentina de Vacunología y Epidemiología ("Argentine Society of Vaccinology and Epidemiology"; SAVE), and has also worked at the Fundación Huésped, an NGO created to respond to HIV/AIDS.[2]

From 2007 to 2016, during the successive administrations of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, she headed the Health Ministry's National Directorate for the Control of Vaccine-preventable Diseases (DINACEI). During her administration, she headed the National Immunization Plan and oversaw the extension of the existing immunization registry to include 19 free and mandatory vaccines.[3]

Secretary of Health Access
Vizzotti presenting the government's daily COVID-19 report in June 2020.

On 19 December 2019, Vizzotti was appointed to the newly established Secretariat of Health Access (Spanish: Secretaría de Acceso a la Salud) by Health Minister Ginés González García, as part of the administration of recently elected president Alberto Fernández.[2]

In 2020 Vizzotti became one of the most visible public officials in the government's response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[2][4] She has been tasked with giving the daily morning reports on COVID-19 statistics.[5]

In December 2020, Vizzotti headed the Argentine delegation that travelled to Russia to oversee the transportation of 300 thousand Gam-COVID-Vac vaccines developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology to Argentina.[6][7][8]

References
  1. Sánchez, Gonzalo (28 May 2020). "Coronavirus en Argentina: Carla Vizzotti, la funcionaria que "evangeliza" cara a cara a los antivacunas y le hace marca personal a la pandemia". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  2. "Quién es Carla Vizzotti, la pieza central del Gobierno frente a la emergencia del coronavirus". La Nación (in Spanish). 12 March 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  3. Spinetta, Franco (14 December 2016). "Carla Vizzotti: "Me dijeron que el despido era por 'motivos políticos'"". Página/12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  4. ""Hoy es el cumpleaños de mi papá y el mejor regalo es no abrazarlo": el mensaje de la viceministra de Salud para concientizar sobre el aislamiento". Infobae (in Spanish). 24 March 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  5. Luna, Florencia (9 April 2020). "Carla Vizzotti y su recorrido en torno a las enfermedades virales". Filo.news (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  6. "Partió misión argentina a Moscú para verificar el proceso de la vacuna Sputnik V". Ámbito (in Spanish). 12 December 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  7. Pizzi, Nicolás (12 December 2020). "Seis funcionarias partieron a Moscú para definir la llegada de la vacuna: los detalles del pago, las dudas sobre el transporte y el ofrecimiento a Cristina". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  8. "Carla Vizzotti desde Rusia: "la aprobación de la vacuna Sputnik está encaminada"". Página/12 (in Spanish). 18 December 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
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