Ioana Mihăilă (born 20 November 1980) is a Romanian politician andendocrinologist fromUSR PLUS, who has been the Minister of Health ofRomania since 21 April 2021. Being specialized in endocrinology since 2010, she is a member of the Romanian Endocrinology Society (Romanian:Societatea Română de Endocrinologie).
She has been a member ofUSR PLUS since 26 October 2018 and was appointed as secretary of state in the Ministry of Health by incumbentPrime MinisterFlorin Cîțu, being proposed byUSR PLUS for the position of Minister of Health on 21 April 2021. On the same day, thePresident of Romania,Klaus Iohannis, appointed her to become the Minister of Health of Romania.
Mihăilă is a member of the Romanian Endocrinology Society (Romanian:Societatea Română de Endocrinologie) and speaks English and French.[4] She also is anendocrinologist, is married and has two children with her husband.[8] She joined theFreedom, Unity and Solidarity Party (PLUS) when it got founded on 26 October 2018 and was elected president of PLUS Bihor. In 2020, she ran for the city hall ofOradea on behalf of theUSR-PLUS Alliance.[4] As of 2021[update], she owns three houses inOradea, three urban patches of land inOradea, an apartment in Cluj-Napoca, acommercial property inOradea, a car, and over 400,000lei in her bank accounts. In 2020, she gave theSave Romania Union (USR) a loan worth of 20,000lei for an election campaign.[8]
On 1 February 2021,Prime Minister of RomaniaFlorin Cîțu appointed her to be a state secretary in the Ministry of Health.[4][6][9] Two months later, on 14 April 2021, Cîțu fires Minister of HealthVlad Voiculescu.[10] On 21 April 2021,USR PLUS proposes her to become Minister of Health, to replaceVlad Voiculescu, with PresidentKlaus Iohannis appointing her on the same day.[11] In her first press conference as minister of health,[12] she said her term will have three priorities along handling theCOVID-19 pandemic: attracting European funds in the health sector, making basic medical services more accessible and reforming the management of hospitals and health services.[12][13]
^The Bucharest Court of Appeal (Romanian:Curtea de Apel București) approved the merger through absorption betweenUSR andPLUS on 16 April 2021 definitively,[1] that was submitted on 30 October 2020.[2] The two parties held a joint congress where the merger was approved with 84.65% favorable votes.[2][3]
^"CV Ioana Mihăilă anonimizat" [Anonymized Ioana Mihăilă CV](PDF).Ministry of Health of Romania (in Romanian).Archived(PDF) from the original on 21 April 2021. Retrieved21 April 2021.
