Carolina Corcho
Carolina Corcho | |
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Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Minister of Health and Social Protection | |
| In office 7 August 2022 – 26 April 2023 | |
| President | Gustavo Petro |
| Preceded by | Fernando Ruiz |
| Succeeded by | Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo |
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| Born | Diana Carolina Corcho Mejía 13 April 1983 |
| Party | Historic Pact (2025–present) |
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Diana Carolina Corcho Mejía (born 13 April 1983) is a Colombian political scientist, psychiatrist, doctor, professor, and politician. A member of the Historic Pact, Corcho served as Minister of health and social protection from 2022 to 2023 under President Gustavo Petro.
Born in Medellín, Antioquia, she studied psychiatry at the University of Antioquia. She later earned a master's degree in psychiatry from the Pontifical Bolivarian University. She worked on Gustavo Petro 2022 presidential campaign. After the 2022 elections, she joined the transition team and was later appointed Minister of Health by President-elect Gustavo Petro. She was the second woman to hold the position after Beatriz Londoño in 2012.
In 2025, she would be part of the primary election organized by the Historic Pact, where she would obtain the second best vote, which made her the head of the list for the senate in the 2026 legislative elections.