Ioana Mihăilă (born 20 November 1980) is a Romanian politician and endocrinologist from USR PLUS, who has been the Minister of Health of Romania since 21 April 2021.
She spent her childhood in a small village from Lăzăreni, Bihor County; moved to Cluj-Napoca in 1999 and studied at the Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy between 1999 and 2005.
In 2008, she got her certificate in endocrine sonography at the Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iași, and she became specialized in endocrinology after preparing in residency at the Endocrinology Clinic of the County Emergency Hospital of Cluj-Napoca (Romanian: Clinica de Endocrinologie a Spitalului Clinic Județean din Cluj-Napoca) between 2006 and 2010.
[8] On 1 February 2021, Prime Minister of Romania Florin Cîțu appointed her to be a state secretary in the Ministry of Health.
[10] On 21 April 2021, USR PLUS proposes her to become Minister of Health, to replace Vlad Voiculescu, with President Klaus Iohannis appointing her on the same day.