Mariapia Garavaglia

Mariapia Garavaglia
Minister of Health
In office 28 April 1993 – 10 May 1994
Prime Minister	Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Preceded by	Raffaele Costa
Succeeded by	Raffaele Costa
Member of the Senate
In office 29 April 2008 – 14 March 2013
Constituency	Veneto
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 20 June 1979 – 14 April 1994
Constituency	Milan
Personal details
Born	(1947-08-10) 10 August 1947 Cuggiono, Italy
Political party	DC (till 1994) PPI (1994-2002) DL (2002-2007) PD (since 2007)
Alma mater	Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Mariapia Garavaglia (born 10 August 1947 in Cuggiono) is an Italian politician and professor, former Italian Minister of Health during the Carlo Azeglio Ciampi government and former Deputy Mayor of Rome. She has been member of the Christian Democracy, of the Italian People's Party, of The Daisy and finally of the Democratic Party. She was extraordinary commissioner and later President of Italian Red Cross. She is also director for international programs of the Italy-USA Foundation.

Biography

Graduated in Literature and Political Sciences at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, she has always dedicated herself to teaching and voluntary activities in the health and social sector. She was a teacher of Letters at high schools. She is a contract professor at the Faculty of Psychology of the Sapienza University of Rome. In the academic years 1996-2007 she held seminars at the Bioengineering Department of the Polytechnic University of Milan. She carries out training and advertising activities in newspapers and periodicals and has published books on health and bioethical issues.

Mariapia Garavaglia in 1992

In 1979 she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the Constituency of Milan and Pavia. Garavaglia made news internationally on 27 September 1980, when she was one of two Christian Democracy members who had arrived several minutes too late to participate in voting on her party's economic proposals, a 297 to 298 loss that caused Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga and his government to resign. She was re-elected until 1994. From 1988 to 1992 she served as Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health and from April 1993 to May 1994 she held the position of Minister of Health.

From May 1995 to April 1998 she held the position of Extraordinary Commissioner of the Italian Red Cross, while from April 1998 to October 2002 she was appointed President of the same. From November 1997 to April 2004 she was Vice President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; she was also President of the Coordination between the European Red Cross Societies.

From 2003 to 2008 she served also as Deputy Mayor of Rome.

Mariapia Garavaglia in Caselle Landi, 2 April 2023.

In 2008 she was elected to the Senate of the Republic for the Constituency of Veneto among the ranks of the Democratic Party. Member of the "VII Commission of Education, University, Research, Cultural Heritage and Sport" and of the "Special Commission on Human Rights".

Electoral history

Election	House	Constituency	Party		Votes	Result
1979	Chamber of Deputies	Milan–Pavia		DC	36,762	Y Elected
1983	Chamber of Deputies	Milan–Pavia		DC	51,093	Y Elected
1987	Chamber of Deputies	Milan–Pavia		DC	56,005	Y Elected
1992	Chamber of Deputies	Milan–Pavia		DC	36,341	Y Elected
2008	Senate of the Republic	Veneto		PD	–	Y Elected