Sérgio Lobo

Sérgio Gama da Costa Lobo (born 19 July 1958) is a politician from East Timor who served as the Minister of Health from 2012 to 2015. He has served as the Catholic Scouts of Dili's leader since 1978 and an international commissioner since 1980. He served on the Diocese of Dili's Pastoral Commission from 1978 to 1980. He has provided guidance to the East Timor Medical Association since 2005. Additionally from 2010 to 2014, Lobo was a member of the National Executive Council of the Cruz Vermelha de Timor-Leste (CVTL), the East Timorese Red Cross.

Early life and education In 1997, Lobo earned a degree in general surgery from Indonesia's Diponegoro University in Semarang. He finished courses in health finance at the World Bank Institute in Washington, D.C., and Pacific Senior Public Management at the Asian Development Bank Institute in Brisbane, Australia and Suva, Fiji, both in 2000. Between 2009 and 2011, Lobo studied hypnotherapy online at the American Hypnosis Motivation Institute, and in 2011, he attended the Path Light Center in Singapore. Reports on the case were used by a number of human rights and women's rights organizations to condemn the pervasive domestic violence in East Timor. A women's shelter was able to accommodate Lobo's wife. Her husband resisted filing for divorce. 2008 saw Lobo's assault and property damage trial, but he was found not guilty. In 2009, the matter was concluded.

For the 2018 East Timorese parliamentary election, Lobo was supposed to become Minister of Health again under Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak, but President Francisco Guterres refused to appoint him, as well as other nominated members of the government, citing ethical reasons. In the case of Lobo, Guterres referred to the behavior towards his wife.

Lobo has been assigned to the government's crisis team as the Working Group on Preventing and Mitigating the COVID-19 Outbreak's coordinator due to the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic in East Timor and the commission to advise and evaluate strategies for the prevention and control of the coronavirus pandemic (Tetum: Komisaun Akompañamentu no Avaliasaun Estratéjia ba Prevensaun no Kombate Pandemia Koronavírus, CAAEPC-COVID-19).