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  | |
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| Secretary of Institutional Affairs | |
| Assumed office  1 January 2023  | |
| President | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | 
| Preceded by | Pepe 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  | |
| Mayor | Fernando Haddad | 
| Preceded by | José de Filippi Júnior | 
| Succeeded by | Wilson Pollara | 
| Minister of Health | |
| In office 1 January 2011 – 2 February 2014  | |
| President | Dilma Rousseff | 
| Preceded by | José Gomes Temporão | 
| Succeeded by | Arthur Chioro | 
| Secretary of Institutional Affairs | |
| In office 28 September 2009 – 1 January 2011  | |
| President | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | 
| Preceded by | José Múcio Monteiro | 
| Succeeded by | Luiz Sérgio de Oliveira | 
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 September 1971 São Paulo, Brazil  | 
| Political party | PT (1988–present) | 
| Spouse | 
 Thaissa Alves   (m. 2012) | 
| Occupation | Physician, Statesman | 
References
    
- HEALTH Can we build a new health system? by Dr. Adib Jatene in "The Brazilian Economy" MARCH 2012 • vol. 4 • nº 3
 - 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"
 - Rousseff takes lead in Brazil election poll By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, BRAD BROOKS Associated Press on 30 September 2014
 - "Diário Oficial da União de 1 de janeiro de 2023" (in Portuguese). Imprensa Nacional. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
 
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