[3] López Ridaura attended the School of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) graduating in 1994 as Physician-Surgeon.

[2] From 1998 to 2000 he was a physician at Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition (INCMNSZ).

From 2005 to 2007 López Ridaura was responsible for the Chronic Diseases Study Division at the National Institute of Public Health (INSP).

Since 2007 he is director and main researcher of the Study of the Health of Teachers (in Spanish: Cohorte Esmaestras) project, a long-term project dedicated to the study of the development of chronic diseases in female Mexican teachers.

[3] He has conducted the daily press conference where the Secretariat of Health directives are giving information about the pandemic.