Helena Legido-Quigley was born on 1977 and is a Spanish public health researcher who is an associate professor in Health Systems at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore.
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Helena Legido-Quigley serves as an associate fellow of Chatham House and is a member of the Council of the World Economic Forum.
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Helena Legido-Quigley is editor-in-chief of BMJ Public Health and Elsevier's Journal of Migration and Health.
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Helena Legido-Quigley moved to the United Kingdom and continued her bachelor's degree at the University of Reading.
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Helena Legido-Quigley has said that this experience inspired her to work in global health.
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In 2002 Helena Legido-Quigley joined the University of Manchester Institute for Development Policy and Management.
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Helena Legido-Quigley joined the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in Singapore as an associate professor.
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Helena Legido-Quigley has argued that the barriers that migrants face to accessing healthcare are detrimental to their host countries, and called for governments to enhance their healthcare systems rather than turning people in need away.
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In 2019 Helena Legido-Quigley analysed the gender and ethnic diversity of public health universities.
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Helena Legido-Quigley found that ethnic minorities were considerably less likely to progress through an academic career than their white counterparts.
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Helena Legido-Quigley has said that she was impressed by how quickly Singapore responded to SARS-CoV-2, which was likely informed by their experiences with the SARS epidemic years before.
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Helena Legido-Quigley worked to analyse the public health responses of different countries, looking to establish best practise and better inform future strategies.
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Helena Legido-Quigley has said that austerity and long-term underinvestment in health services has drained the ability of healthcare systems to respond to SARS-CoV-2.
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Helena Legido-Quigley said that to contain outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2, governments would have to invest in testing, hospitals and their health workers.
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Helena Legido-Quigley called for more clear guidance from the European Union on how to count the number of people who die of coronavirus disease, as not all nations were using the same methodology, making comparisons of the public health response difficult.
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Helena Legido-Quigley was involved with analysis of the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia and Europe.
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Helena Legido-Quigley serves as editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Journal of Migration and Health.