Fernando Carbone Campoverde

Fernando Ignacio Carbone Campoverde (1959 to 2024) was a Peruvian medical surgeon who became a figure in national health policy. He studied medicine at the National University of San Marcos in Lima, sat on the Ethics Commission of the Medical College of Peru in 1998 and 1999, and advised on poverty, development, family planning and strategic planning from 1990. He was Vice Minister of Health from 2001 to 2002 and Minister of Health from 2002 to 2003, a tenure marked by a proposed replacement of the General Health Law that drew criticism over reproductive rights, and by an official 2002 report on forced sterilizations carried out in Peru between 1996 and 2000. He later coordinated projects for Medicus Mundi International in Peru.