Maria Palmira Tito de Morais (1912 –2003) was a Portuguese nursing professor, World Health Organization employee, feminist, pacifist activist, and opponent of the Estado Novo dictatorship in Portugal.

Her father was a naval officer and an active member of the Portuguese Republican Party, who played a leading role in the 5 October 1910 revolution that overthrew the monarchy in Portugal, taking command of the warship São Rafael, which bombarded the Necessidades Palace, residence of the king.

At the same time, two others were selected to study in the medical field: Jaime Pereira, for sanitary engineering and Maria Angélica Lima Basto for nursing.

There she contributed to several periodicals, writing articles about health education for newspapers and magazines such as Seara Nova, Gazeta Médica Portuguesa, and Os Nosso Filhos.

[1][2][3] With feminist, pacifist and anti-dictatorship views, Tito de Morais joined the Associação Feminina Portuguesa para a Paz (Portuguese Women's Association for Peace - AFPP) and the Movement of Democratic Unity (Portuguese: Movimento de Unidade Democrática - MUD), being invited to join the Women's Committee of MUD.

She participated in the campaign for president of José Norton de Matos, from which he withdrew after it became clear that the results would be rigged by the Estado Novo.

At the time she was working in Rio de Janeiro at the WHO/ Pan American Sanitary Bureau and was concluding a survey on nursing resources and needs in Brazil.