Jaime Mañalich

Jaime José Mañalich Muxi, born in Santiago on 7 June 1954, is a Chilean physician trained in nephrology who became a hospital executive and then Chile's Health Minister. He studied medicine at the University of Chile from 1972 and began his career at the Hospital José Joaquín Aguirre, where he worked for fifteen years. He later completed a master's degree in health research methodology at McMaster University in Canada and holds training in clinical epidemiology. From 1995 he was medical director of Clínica Las Condes, which gained Joint Commission International accreditation while he led it, and in 2017 he became its general manager. He served as Health Minister during the first Piñera government from 2010 to 2014 and again from June 2019 until June 2020, when he was replaced amid criticism of how Chile handled the COVID-19 pandemic.