Dr. Carlile Lavor is a physician, sanitarian, defender of the Unified Health System (SUS), a former professor at the University of Brasília, and a two-time Secretary of Health of Ceará, Brazil (1987–1988 and 2015). He was responsible for the creation of the health agents in Ceará, in 1987, forerunners of the Family Health Strategy team's community health agents. Dr. Carlile served as a consultant to the Ministry of Health of Angola in 2007/2008 and 2014 in the planning and implementation of the health agent program in that country. He also served as the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz office coordinator in Ceará from 2008 to 2014.