Ala Nemerenco

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 in Chișinău, 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 the National Institute of Public Health of Japan, Harvard University School of Public Health, the School of Public Health in the Netherlands, and Braun School of Public Health.^[8]

During her tenure as Minister of Health, Nemerenco has had to address the COVID-19 pandemic.^[9] She strongly supported the introduction of COVID-19 vaccinations.^[10]