Darija Kisić Tepavčević

Darija Kisić Tepavčević (Serbian Cyrillic: Дарија Кисић Тепавчевић; born 20 August 1975) is a Serbian doctor and epidemiologist who is currently serving as the Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy in the Government of Serbia since 28 October 2020. She is a professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade and a former Assistant Director for Public Health and Population Policy of the Institute of Public Health of Serbia "Milan Jovanović Batut".

Darija Kisić Tepavčević
Дарија Кисић Тепавчевић
Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy
Assumed office
28 October 2020
Prime MinisterAna Brnabić
Preceded byZoran Đorđević
Personal details
Born (1975-08-20) 20 August 1975
Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Political partyIndependent
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade
ProfessionEpidemiologist

Biography

Kisić Tepavčević was born in 1975 in Sarajevo which at the time was a part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Later, she moved to Belgrade and she graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade in 2001. She received her master's degree in epidemiology from the same faculty in 2006, and her doctorate on the topic: "Predictive value of quality of life in assessing the outcome of the disease in patients with multiple sclerosis".[1][2]

In February 2002, she was elected a teaching associate at the Department of Epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine. She was elected assistant professor in May 2007, and again in June 2010. At the end of that year, she was nominated for the title of assistant professor, and since 2017 she has been an associate professor at the Medical Faculty in Belgrade.[1]

During her career, she has published more than 120 scientific papers in international scientific journals.[3]

She played one of the leading roles in the fight against chickenpox epidemics in 2017/18 and the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia in 2020.[4][5][1]

Since 28 October 2020 she is serving as the Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy in the Government of Serbia and the Second cabinet of Ana Brnabić.

Her brother Bojan is married to the former Minister of Justice Nela Kuburović.[6]

References
  1. "БИОГРАФИЈА Предрага Кона, Горана Стевановића, Мијомира Пелемиша и Дарије Кисић Тепавчевић! ЧЕТИРИ ОСОБЕ У ЦЕНТРУ ЗБИВАЊА". www.intermagazin.rs. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  2. "Darija Kisić Tepavčević". Istinomer (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  3. Leutar (2020-04-04). "Sram vas bilo, dr Kisić, što ste žensko". Leutar.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  4. Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Kraj epidemije malih boginja". www.rts.rs. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  5. "Srpski epidemiolog predstavlja Evropu na skupu u Vašingtonu: Virus malih boginja je globalni problem". Naši u svetu. 2019-09-18. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  6. "Zid ćutanja o unosnim poslovima Bojana Kisića, stručnjaci kažu - žaba je skuvana". N1 Srbija (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-10-28.
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