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.^[2]

Born in Salvador, Bahia in Paraíba to Guilardo Martins Alves and Maria da Penha Gomes Martins,^[3] Jorge studied Medicine from 1967 to 1973, when he graduated from the Federal University of Paraíba.^[4] Following this, he obtained degrees in Preventive Medicine and Public Health from the University of São Paulo between 1974 and 1976.^[4] In addition, he engaged in politics as a militant activist for the Revolutionary Communist Party against the Brazilian military government.^[1] In 1976, he was hired to work as São Paulo's Department of Health as director of Itaquera's Health Center.^[5]

In 1980, he was one of the co-founders of the Brazilian Workers' Party,^[1] where he was a deputy for the state of São Paulo from 1983 to 1987.^[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).^[2] Eduardo Jorge was a federal deputy from 1987 to 2003,^[5] when he left the Workers' Party and joined the Green Party.^[6] From 2005 to 2012, he was Secretary of the Environment for José Serra and Gilberto Kassab.^[6]

In 2014, Eduardo Jorge was announced as the Green Party's presidential candidate in the Brazilian general election of 2014.^[4] During his campaign, he advocated for the legalization of abortion as a public health issue, and for the legalization of drugs^[7]—which he had already defended as a Congressman in 1995^[8]—to end the war on drugs.^[7] In the end, he was the sixth most voted-for candidate, receiving 630,099 votes, corresponding to 0.61% of the total.^[9]