Sílvia Paula Valentim Lutucuta (born 14 July 1968) is an Angolan politician and cardiologist, the incumbent Minister of Health.

She trained in medicine and specialised in cardiology at the Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon, Portugal.

[1] In 2000 she moved to Houston in Texas where she undertook post-doctoral research at Baylor College of Medicine.

[2] She joined the Angolan Society of Cardiovascular Diseases.

Under her leadership vaccines for COVID-19 were rolled out in her country and she organised the funding.