Fein, Monica

Fein was born in Lujan, province of Buenos Aires ^[1] . Politically active from youth, at the age of 17 she joined the Socialist Party of Argentina . She participated in the National Reform Movement as Chairperson of the Student Center of the School of Biochemistry and Pharmacy at Rosario National University, which she graduated with a degree in Biochemistry . Then she served as secretary for student welfare and secretary for university expansion ^[2] .

She began her public health education at the Lasarte Institute. Participated in the creation of a patented drug laboratory (LEM) in Rosario in 1992; LEM, coordinating its development with the scientific community, would become a national model for the social production of medicines . She was appointed director of the city sanitary department in 1995, having achieved at this post increased control over food safety through the development of the Food Institute.

Her fellow Socialist Party doctor Hermes Binner, after being elected mayor of the city, appointed Fane Secretary of Public Health in 1997. She strengthened her local first-aid network, focused on ensuring hospital standards, and launched the Rosario Center for Outpatient Medical Specialties (CEMAR). She headed the party list of the Socialist Party in the city council elections in 2001 and remained in office until 2003, serving as chairman of the medical commission.

The next socialist mayor, Miguel Lifshitz, left Fane as secretary of health. Her leadership in the construction of the new maternity hospital, Martin, was praised by the World Health Organization . She was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina in 2007 from the Civil and Social Progressive Front - a center - left coalition of forces operating in the province of Santa Fe from the liberal Democratic Progressive Party and the Civil Radical Union to the left of the Free Movement from the South and fractions of the Communist Party of Argentina . She led a group of the Socialist Party. She was appointed secretary of the Commission on Social Affairs and Health, and also became a member of the committees on regulation, taxes, constitutional affairs, general legislation, the population and human development, pensioners and the elderly.

She was nominated by the Civil and Social Progressive Front as a candidate for the post of mayor of the city of Rosario on May 22, 2011 ^[3] . She was elected on July 24 with 52.2% of the vote, defeating runner-up candidate for Hustisialists Hector Cavaliero by 22%. She became the first woman socialist elected mayor in the history of Argentina ^[4] .

Married, has two children.