With 81.8% of valid votes, the president of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Mario Moreira, was re-elected for the 2025-2028 term. He was the only one to present a candidacy: he received 2,901 votes from the institution’s public servants, out of a total of 3,546. 
The result will be sent for approval by the Deliberative Council, then to the Minister of Health, Nísia Trindade and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who will decide on the appointment.
“My commitment will be to maintaining the importance of Fiocruz. Our institution is at a moment of institutional inflection and we have to come together and debate so that we can agree on the Fiocruz project of the future. We have a very big responsibility ahead of us. We have an inheritance in our hands, a heritage that we cannot neglect”, said the re-elected president.
Trajectory
Mario Moreira has been at Fiocruz since 1994. He has a PhD in Public Policy from the Federal University of Paraná, with a doctoral internship at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal; master in Public Health from the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (Ensp/Fiocruz); and a master’s degree in Technology and Innovation Management from the University of Sussex, in the United Kingdom.
In 2017, he became vice-president of Management and Institutional Development at Fiocruz. He was elected to the position of president of Fiocruz in March 2023. The electoral process was opened to complete the term of Nísia Trindade Lima, invited to take over the Ministry of Health.
