Eduardo Jorge

Eduardo Jorge Martins Alves Sobrinho (born 26 October 1949)

Biography Born in Salvador, Bahia in Paraíba to Guilardo Martins Alves and Maria da Penha Gomes Martins, Jorge studied Medicine from 1967 to 1973, when he graduated from the Federal University of Paraíba. Following this, he obtained degrees in Preventive Medicine and Public Health from the University of São Paulo between 1974 and 1976. In 1976, he was hired to work as São Paulo's Department of Health as director of Itaquera's Health Center.

In 1980, he was one of the co-founders of the Brazilian Workers' Party, From 2005 to 2012, he was Secretary of the Environment for José Serra and Gilberto Kassab. —which he had already defended as a Congressman in 1995 —to end the war on drugs.