Javier Padilla Bernáldez

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Padilla and the second or maternal family name is Bernáldez.

Javier Padilla Bernáldez (born 1983)[1] is the Secretary of State, Ministry of Health of Spain and a senior member of Mas Madrid political party.[2][1] He serves as a member of the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS, and Pandemics.[3]

Life and education

Padilla graduated in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Madrid, specializing in Family and Community Medicine.[4] He has a Master's degree in Public Health and Health Management and a Master's degree in Health and Drug Economics.[5]

Career

Medical career

Padilla is a family and community doctor, with a background in health economics, public health and philosophy. His primary medical practice was in primary care as a family doctor, in several health centers in the Community of Madrid.[6][7]

Author

He is the author of several books on health and healthcare including Epidemiocracy (Captain Swing, 2020)[8] and Who should we let go of? (Captain Swing, 2019)[9] and editor of Health or Barbarism (Paspasueños, 2017).[10] He has also published in peer-reviewed public health journals on hospitals, COVID-19, and inequality.[11][12][13]

Political career

Padilla is a senior member of Más Madrid, a social justice-oriented political organization focused on ending inequality in the provision of healthcare and other public services in Madrid. Padilla Bernáldez became Spain's Secretary of State for Health in November 2023. Previously he served a member of the Madrid Assembly and as a public policy advisor for En Comú Podem in the Spanish Congress of Deputies (2016–2017). He has been particularly engaged in work on pharmaceutical policy.[14] He has also defined his political career on tackling inequality--at the Ministry of Health and more broadly.[7][15]

References

  1. ^ a b "Ficha del diputado | Javier Padilla Bernáldez". Asamblea de Madrid (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  2. ^ "Javier Padilla Bernáldez". Más Madrid (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  3. ^ "Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics". www.inequalitycouncil.org. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  4. ^ "Ministerio de Sanidad - Ministerio - CV Secretario de Estado de Sanidad Javier Padilla Bernáldez". Ministry of Health (Spain). Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  5. ^ "Epi Bios Forum: Shaping the Spanish National Health System with a Global Health Perspective". CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  6. ^ "Javier Padilla Bernáldez | Nueva Economía Fórum | Organizacíon independiente de debate". www.nuevaeconomiaforum.org. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  7. ^ a b "Javier Padilla Bernáldez, Secretario de Estado de Sanidad". New Medical Economics (in Spanish). 2024-06-14. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  8. ^ González-Salgado, Ignacio de Loyola (2022-09-19). "Javier Padilla Bernáldez y Pedro Gullón Tosio. Epidemiocracia. Nadie está a salvo si no estamos todos a salvo. Madrid: Capitán Swing; 2020. 223 p. ISBN: 9788412197945". Gaceta Sanitaria. 36 (2): 200. doi:10.1016/j.gaceta.2020.11.007.
  9. ^ "¿A quién vamos a dejar morir?". Captain Swing.
  10. ^ "SALUBRISMO O BARBARIE: Un mapa entre la Salud y sus determinantes sociales. (Spanish Edition): 9788415674757 - AbeBooks". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  11. ^ Bilal, Usama; Gullón, Pedro; Padilla-Bernáldez, Javier (2022-03-01). "Evidencia epidemiológica acerca del rol de la hostelería en la transmisión de la COVID-19: una revisión rápida de la literatura". Gaceta Sanitaria. 36 (2): 160–165. doi:10.1016/j.gaceta.2021.03.004. ISSN 0213-9111. PMC 8030743. PMID 33933322.
  12. ^ Cruz Piqueras, Maite; Rodríguez García de Cortazar, Ainhoa; Hortal Carmona, Joaquín; Padilla Bernáldez, Javier (2019-01-01). "Reticencia vacunal: análisis del discurso de madres y padres con rechazo total o parcial a las vacunas" [Vaccine hesitancy: discourse analysis of parents who have not fully or partially vaccinated their children]. Gaceta Sanitaria (in Spanish). 33 (1): 53–59. doi:10.1016/j.gaceta.2017.07.004. hdl:10668/11591. ISSN 0213-9111. PMID 28928056.
  13. ^ Bilal, Usama; Padilla-Bernáldez, Javier (2016-07-01). "Cáncer y consumo de carne: más allá de los estilos de vida individuales }" [Cancer and meat consumption: beyond individual life styles]. Gaceta Sanitaria (in Spanish). 30 (4): 318. doi:10.1016/j.gaceta.2016.03.008. ISSN 0213-9111. PMID 27157634.
  14. ^ "Conversación con Javier Padilla, secretario de Estado de Sanidad. "En España se consumen pocos genéricos y muy caros"". Asociación Acceso Justo al Medicamento (in Spanish). 2025-02-08. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  15. ^ "Javier Padilla Bernáldez - Enfermedades raras y determinantes sociales de la salud: una agenda para la equidad". NewsRARE (in Spanish). 2025-10-20. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
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