Armando Peruga is a physician. He graduated from the Master’s and Doctoral programs at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was Director of the Institute for Research in Health and Welfare in Madrid and later became Director of the National School of Public Health. In the early 1980s he worked for the Public Health Commission in Washington DC as a behavior change epidemiologist and began working with the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization in 1990. He was the leader of the tobacco control team at that organization until early 2006, when he moved to Geneva as coordinator of the creation unit of the Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) unit of the World Health Organization. He was a program manager at TFI until January 2016, when he retired from WHO. He is currently an associate researcher at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) in Barcelona and a professor at the Center for Epidemiology and Health Policies at the University of Development in Chile.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1138-3292