Eduardo Jorge Martins Alves Sobrinho (born 26 October 1949)[1] 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.

[4] In addition, he engaged in politics as a militant activist for the Revolutionary Communist Party against the Brazilian military government.

[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).

[6] In 2014, Eduardo Jorge was announced as the Green Party's presidential candidate in the Brazilian general election of 2014.