Preceded by Beatriz Londono Soto Name Alejandro Uribe Citizenship Colombian | President Alvaro Uribe Velez | |
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Preceded by Tomas Gonzalez Estrada |
Alejandro gaviria uribe ministro de salud
Alejandro Gaviria Uribe (born 1965) is the 3rd and current Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia. A former Dean of the School of Economics at the University of the Andes from 2006 to his appointment as Minister in 2012, he has previously served as Deputy Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia, and has worked as Researcher and eventually Deputy Director of the Foundation for the Higher Education and Development (Fedesarrollo), a private non-profit policy research centre based in Bogotá, as well as Researcher for the Inter-American Development Bank.
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- Alejandro gaviria uribe ministro de salud
- Intervencion del ministro alejandro gaviria uribe durante el 5 congreso de acoes
- Minister of Health and Social Protection
- Personal life
- Selected works
- References

Intervencion del ministro alejandro gaviria uribe durante el 5 congreso de acoes
Minister of Health and Social Protection

On 30 August 2012 President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón announced the designation of Gaviria as Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia. Gaviria was sworn in on 3 September 2012 succeeding Beatriz Londoño Soto.
Personal life

Gaviria was born in 1966 in Santiago, Chile, to Juan Felipe Gaviria Gutiérrez and Cecilia Uribe Flórez. He is married to Carolina Soto Losada, the current High Presidential Counsellor for Government, Private Sector and Competitiveness of Colombia. He has two children, Mariana Gaviria and Tomas Gaviria. On september 6, it was announced he was being treated for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Selected works


