| Eduardo Jorge | |
| Term Start: | 1 February 1987 |
| Term End: | 31 January 2003 |
| Term Start1: | 1 February 1983 |
| Term End1: | 1 December 1986 |
| Birth Name: | Eduardo Jorge Martins Alves Sobrinho |
| Birth Date: | 26 October 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Salvador, Brazil |
| Party: | PV (2003–present) |
| Otherparty: | PT (1980–2003) |
| Profession: | Physician |
Eduardo Jorge Martins Alves Sobrinho (born 26 October 1949) is a Brazilian public health physician and politician. He is best known for creating (or co-creating) federal laws on family planning, voluntary sterilization, the production of generic drugs, regulation of asbestos use, and linking budgetary resources for the Brazilian public health system.[1]
Born in Salvador, Bahia in Paraíba to Guilardo Martins Alves and Maria da Penha Gomes Martins,[2] Jorge studied Medicine from 1967 to 1973, when he graduated from the Federal University of Paraíba.[3] Following this, he obtained degrees in Preventive Medicine and Public Health from the University of São Paulo between 1974 and 1976.[3] In addition, he engaged in politics as a militant activist for the Revolutionary Communist Party against the Brazilian military government.[4] In 1976, he was hired to work as São Paulo's Department of Health as director of Itaquera's Health Center.[5]
In 1980, he was one of the co-founders of the Brazilian Workers' Party,[4] where he was a deputy for the state of São Paulo from 1983 to 1987.[5] He was also Secretary of Health for the City of São Paulo in the governments of both Luiza Erundina (1989–1990) and Marta Suplicy's (2001–2002).[1] Eduardo Jorge was a federal deputy from 1987 to 2003,[5] when he left the Workers' Party and joined the Green Party.[6] From 2005 to 2012, he was Secretary of the Environment for José Serra and Gilberto Kassab.[6]
In 2014, Eduardo Jorge was announced as the Green Party's presidential candidate in the Brazilian general election of 2014.[3] During his campaign, he advocated for the legalization of abortion as a public health issue, and for the legalization of drugs[7] —which he had already defended as a Congressman in 1995[8] —to end the war on drugs.[7] In the end, he was the sixth most voted-for candidate, receiving 630,099 votes, corresponding to 0.61% of the total.[9]