Livia Turco

Livia Turco OMRI
Minister of Health
In office 17 May 2006 – 8 May 2008
Prime Minister	Romano Prodi
Preceded by	Silvio Berlusconi (ad interim)
Succeeded by	Maurizio Sacconi
Minister of Social Solidarity
In office 17 May 1996 – 11 June 2001
Prime Minister	Romano Prodi Massimo D'Alema Giuliano Amato
Preceded by	Adriano Ossicini
Succeeded by	Roberto Maroni
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 2 July 1987 – 27 April 2006
In office 29 April 2008 – 14 March 2013
Member of the Senate
In office 28 April 2006 – 28 April 2008
Personal details
Born	(1955-02-13) 13 February 1955 (age 69) Cuneo, Italy
Political party	PCI (1970–1991) PDS (1991–1998) DS (1998–2007) PD (since 2007)

Livia Turco (born 13 February 1955) is an Italian politician. She began her political career in the 1970s as a member of the Italian Communist Party, becoming a member of the Italian Parliament in 1987. She then joined its legal successors, the Democratic Party of the Left and then the Democrats of the Left. A member of the Democratic Party, she was elected to the Senate of the Republic in 2006. By 2008, she returned to the Chamber of Deputies, and did not seek re-election in 2013. Turco was Minister of Social Affairs in three centre-left coalition-led governments from 1996 to 2001 and Minister of Health from 2006 to 2008.