Hassan Ismail Yusuf حسن اسماعيل يوسف | |
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| Minister of Health | |
| In office 14 December 2017 – 14 April 2019 | |
| President | Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud |
| Preceded by | Suleiman Haglotosiye |
| Succeeded by | Omar Ali Abdillahi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 01.01.1954 |
| Alma mater | Somali National University,Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine |
Hassan Ismail Yusuf (Somali:Xasan Ismaaciil Yuusuf) is aSomaliland politician, He served as Minister of Health and Labor ofSomaliland in 2002 and asMinister of Health of Somaliland, from December 2017 to April 2019.[1][2][3]
Hassan was born in the outskirts ofBurao in 1954 where he also completed his primary education. He finished his secondary school atSheikh before moving on toMogadishu to study at theSomali National University where he graduated from the School of Medicine and Surgery in 1979.
In 1984, Hassan earned aMaster‘s Degree in Community Health from theLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine.[4]
In 1986, Hassan joined the London branch of theSomali National Movement, where he served as chairperson of the executive committee. At the end of theSomali Civil War, theBurao conference was held in April–May 1991, during which the SNM declared an independent Republic ofSomaliland in the region that constituted theBritish Somaliland protectorate before independence.
Hassan became the Health Director of Burao General Hospital in 2000 and later served as Minister of Health and Labour of Somaliland in 2002.
Afterwards,he worked six years for the ItalianNGO Comitato Collaborazione Medica as tuberculosis medical supervisor.
In 2012, he became dean of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences of theUniversity of Hargeisa and then, in 2013, of the newly established Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences ofBurao University.[5]Dr. Hassan is particularly concerned with all matters of community health and its improvement.[6][7]
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| Preceded by | Minister of Health 2017-2019 | Succeeded by |
