Alexandre Padilha

{{Short description|Brazilian physician and politician (born 1971)}} {{Portuguese name|Rocha|Santos Padilha}} {{Expand Portuguese|topic=bio|name=Alexandre Padilha|date=October 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Alexandre Padilha | image = 01.01.2023 - Posse de Alexandre Padilha, Ministro de Estado de Relações Institucionais (52625761867) (cropped).jpg | title = Minister of Health | term_start = 10 March 2025 | president = Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | predecessor = Nísia Trindade | term_start1 = 1 January 2011 | term_end1 = 2 February 2014 | president1 = Dilma Rousseff | predecessor1 = José Gomes Temporão | successor1 = Arthur Chioro | title2 = Federal Deputy | term_start2 = 1 February 2019{{efn|Since 2023, Padilha has taken a leave of absence from his parliamentary duties to serve as Secretary of Institutional Affairs, and since March 2025, as Minister of Health.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Juliano |first1=Galisi |title=Quem é Alexandre da Padilha, novo ministro da Saúde do governo Lula|url=https://www.estadao.com.br/politica/quem-e-alexandre-padilha-novo-ministro-da-saude-governo-lula-demissao-nisia-trindade-nprp/?srsltid=AfmBOoqQjjzF7lT-Fb5sZXKNPc_KTBsHKXHPsA-r9cXPhLkDMqsx43fk |website=Estadão|language=pt|access-date=9 May 2025}}</ref>}} | constituency2 = São Paulo | title3 = Secretary of Institutional Affairs | term_start3 = 1 January 2023 | term_end3 = 10 March 2025 | president3 = Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | predecessor3 = Pepe Vargas | successor3 = Gleisi Hoffmann | term_start4 = 28 September 2009 | term_end4 = 31 December 2010 | president4 = Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | predecessor4 = José Múcio | successor4 = Luiz Sérgio de Oliveira | title5 = Municipal Secretary of Health of São Paulo | term_start5 = 14 August 2015 | term_end5 = 31 December 2016 | 1blankname5 = Mayor | 1namedata5 = Fernando Haddad | predecessor5 = José Filippi Júnior | successor5 = Wilson Pollara | birth_name = Alexandre Rocha Santos Padilha | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|09|14|df=y}} | birth_place = São Paulo, Brazil | party = PT (since 1988) | spouse = {{Marriage|Thássia Alves|2012}} | alma_mater = State University of Campinas<br />University of São Paulo | profession = Physician }}

'''Alexandre Rocha Santos Padilha''' ({{IPA|pt-BR|aleˈʃɐ̃dɾi ˈʁɔʃɐ ˈsɐ̃tus paˈdʒiʎɐ|lang}}; born 14 September 1971) is a Brazilian physician and politician affiliated with the Workers Party (PT).<ref>[http://www.gwu.edu/~ibi/FGV%20Report%20Files/2012_March.pdf HEALTH Can we build a new health system?] by Dr. Adib Jatene in "The Brazilian Economy" MARCH 2012 • vol. 4 • nº 3</ref> He served as minister of Institutional Relations in the current government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2023 to 2025, a position he previously held from 2009 to 2011. He served as minister of health under Dilma Rousseff from 2011 to 2014.<ref>[http://blackwomenofbrazil.co/2013/09/11/journalist-writes-that-cuban-doctors-arriving-in-brazil-came-on-slave-planes/ Journalist writes that Cuban doctors arriving in Brazil came on “slave planes.”] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914053450/http://blackwomenofbrazil.co/2013/09/11/journalist-writes-that-cuban-doctors-arriving-in-brazil-came-on-slave-planes/ |date=14 September 2013 }} by "Black Women of Brazil"</ref> He unsuccessfully ran for governor of São Paulo state in the 2014 election.<ref>[http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/sep/30/rousseff-takes-lead-in-brazil-election-poll/ Rousseff takes lead in Brazil election poll] By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, BRAD BROOKS Associated Press on 30 September 2014</ref> On 1 January 2023, he was once again named Secretary of Institutional Affairs by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who reinstated the office.<ref name="pesquisa">{{Cite web|url=https://pesquisa.in.gov.br/imprensa/jsp/visualiza/index.jsp?data=01/01/2023&jornal=702&pagina=1|title=Diário Oficial da União de 1 de janeiro de 2023|publisher=Imprensa Nacional|language=pt|access-date=1 January 2023}}</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before=José Múcio Monteiro}} {{s-ttl|title=Secretary of Institutional Affairs|years=2009–2011}} {{s-aft|after=Luiz Sérgio de Oliveira}} |- {{s-bef|before=José Gomes Temporão}} {{s-ttl|title=Minister of Health|years=2011–2014}} {{s-aft|after=Arthur Chioro}} |- {{s-bef|before=José de Filippi Júnior}} {{s-ttl|title=Municipal Secretary of Health of São Paulo|years=2015–2017}} {{s-aft|after=Wilson Pollara}} |- {{s-bef|before=Pepe Vargas}} {{s-ttl|title=Secretary of Institutional Affairs|years=2023–2025}} {{s-aft|after=Gleisi Hoffmann}} |- {{s-bef|before=Nísia Trindade}} {{s-ttl|title=Minister of Health|years=2025–present}} {{s-inc}} |- {{s-ppo}} {{s-bef|before=Aloizio Mercadante}} {{s-ttl|title=PT nominee for Governor of São Paulo|years=2014}} {{s-aft|after=Luiz Marinho}} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Padilha, Alexandre}} Category:1971 births Category:Living people Category:Ministers of health of Brazil Category:Politicians from São Paulo Category:Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from São Paulo (state) Category:Workers' Party (Brazil) politicians Category:21st-century Brazilian medical doctors

Category:State University of Campinas alumni Category:Brazilian infectious diseases specialists