Alexandre Padilha

Alexandre Rocha Santos Padilha is a Brazilian physician and politician affiliated with the Workers Party (PT).[1] He serves as minister of Institutional Relations in the current government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a position he previously held from 2009 to 2011. He served as minister of health under Dilma Rousseff from 2011 to 2014.[2] He unsuccessfully ran for governor of São Paulo state in the 2014 election.[3] On 1 January 2023, he was once again named Secretary of Institutional Affairs by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who reinstated the office.[4]

Alexandre Padilha
Padilha (2014)
Secretary of Institutional Affairs
Assumed office
1 January 2023
PresidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded byPepe Vargas (2015)
Federal Deputy from São Paulo
Assumed office
1 February 2019
Municipal Secretary of Health of São Paulo
In office
14 August 2015  1 January 2017
MayorFernando Haddad
Preceded byJosé de Filippi Júnior
Succeeded byWilson Pollara
Minister of Health
In office
1 January 2011  2 February 2014
PresidentDilma Rousseff
Preceded byJosé Gomes Temporão
Succeeded byArthur Chioro
Secretary of Institutional Affairs
In office
28 September 2009  1 January 2011
PresidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded byJosé Múcio Monteiro
Succeeded byLuiz Sérgio de Oliveira
Personal details
Born (1971-09-14) 14 September 1971
São Paulo, Brazil
Political partyPT (1988–present)
Spouse
Thaissa Alves
(m. 2012)
OccupationPhysician, Statesman

See also

References

  1. HEALTH Can we build a new health system? by Dr. Adib Jatene in "The Brazilian Economy" MARCH 2012 • vol. 4 • nº 3
  2. Journalist writes that Cuban doctors arriving in Brazil came on “slave planes.” Archived 14 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine by "Black Women of Brazil"
  3. Rousseff takes lead in Brazil election poll By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, BRAD BROOKS Associated Press on 30 September 2014
  4. "Diário Oficial da União de 1 de janeiro de 2023" (in Portuguese). Imprensa Nacional. Retrieved 1 January 2023.


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