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Canadian physician

Horacio Arruda is a Canadianphysician specialized in community health who formerly served as National Director of Public Health and Assistant Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Health and Social Services for Quebec under Premier François Legault.^[2]

Biography

Born in 1960 in Sainte-Thérèse^[3] to parents from the Azores, Portugal, who immigrated to Quebec in the late 1950s, Arruda obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Université de Sherbrooke in 1983.^[4] In 1988, he also obtained a certificate in community health and preventive medicine at the Université de Sherbrooke.^[5]

During his first years of practice, Arruda worked at the Public Health Department in Laval.

From 1998 to 2012, he was an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the Université de Montréal.^[6] He was director of public health protection at the Quebec Ministry of He