Ala Nemerenco | |
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 Nemerenco in 2024 | |
| Minister of Health | |
| Assumed office 6 August 2021 | |
| President | Maia Sandu |
| Prime Minister | Natalia Gavrilița Dorin Recean |
| Preceded by | Viorica Dumbrăveanu (as Minister of Health, Labour and Social Protection) |
| Healthcare Advisor to thePresident | |
| In office 24 December 2020 – 9 August 2021 | |
| President | Maia Sandu |
| Minister of Health, Labour and Social Protection | |
| In office 8 June 2019 – 14 November 2019 | |
| President | Igor Dodon |
| Prime Minister | Maia Sandu |
| Preceded by | Silvia Radu |
| Succeeded by | Viorica Dumbrăveanu |
| Member of theChișinău Municipal Council | |
| In office 13 July 2015 – 3 July 2019 | |
| Succeeded by | Victor Chironda |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1959-08-21)21 August 1959 (age 66) |
| Alma mater | Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy |
Ala Nemerenco (pronunciation: [nemeˈrenko]; born 21 August 1959) is a Moldovan physician and politician. As of 6 August 2021[update], she has served asMinister of Health in the cabinets of Prime MinistersNatalia Gavrilița andDorin Recean.
She served asMinister of Health, Labour and Social Protection from 8 June 2019 to 14 November 2019 inthe cabinet of Prime MinisterMaia Sandu.[1]Viorica Dumbrăveanu was appointed as her successor.[2][3]
She was born on 21 August 1959 in Soloneț,Soroca district,Moldovan SSR.[4] From 1976 to 1982 she attended the Faculty of General Medicine, where she graduated from.[5] After graduating from medical school, she became an intern at the Republican Clinical Hospital.[6] She then worked at municipal polyclinic no. 8 inChișinău, becoming head of the therapy department there in 1995 and was later a physician at AMT Centru Chișinău in 1998.[7] In 2000 she went to the "Nicolae Testemitanu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, where she helped found the University Clinic of Primary Medical Assistance which she started leading in 2002.[7] While heading the clinic she started studying for her PhD in social medicine and management in 2003, which she received in 2007 from the place she worked at.[8] Immediately after receiving her PhD she also went on a series of training internships at theNational Institute of Public Health of Japan,Harvard University School of Public Health, the School of Public Health in theNetherlands, andBraun School of Public Health.[8]
During her tenure as Minister of Health, Nemerenco has had to address theCOVID-19 pandemic.[9] She strongly supported the introduction ofCOVID-19 vaccinations.[10]
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