Darija Kisić

Darija Kisić (Serbian Cyrillic: Дарија Кисић; formerly Darija Kisić Tepavčević, Serbian Cyrillic: Дарија Кисић Тепавчевић; born 20 August 1975) is a Serbian doctor, epidemiologist and politician who served as minister of family welfare and demography from 2022 to 2024.^[1] A member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), she previously served as minister of labour, employment, veteran and social policy from 2020 to 2022.

Darija Kisić
Дарија Кисић
Kisić in 2021
Minister of Family Welfare and Demography
In office 26 October 2022 – 2 May 2024
Prime Minister	Ana Brnabić
Preceded by	Ratko Dmitrović
Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy
In office 28 October 2020 – 26 October 2022
Prime Minister	Ana Brnabić
Preceded by	Zoran Đorđević
Succeeded by	Nikola Selaković
Personal details
Born	(1975-08-20) 20 August 1975 (age 49) Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
Political party	SNS (2021–present)
Alma mater	University of Belgrade
Profession	Epidemiologist

She is also 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".

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".^[2][3]

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.^[2]

During her career, she has published more than 120 scientific papers in international scientific journals.^[4]

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.^[5][6][2]

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.^[7]

On 25 November 2021, she joined the Serbian Progressive Party.^[8][9]

References

1. "Aleksandar Vučić: Ovo su ministri nove Vlade". Vreme (in Serbian). 23 October 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
2. "БИОГРАФИЈА Предрага Кона, Горана Стевановића, Мијомира Пелемиша и Дарије Кисић Тепавчевић! ЧЕТИРИ ОСОБЕ У ЦЕНТРУ ЗБИВАЊА". www.intermagazin.rs. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
3. "Darija Kisić Tepavčević". Istinomer (in Serbian). Retrieved 28 October 2020.
4. Leutar (4 April 2020). "Sram vas bilo, dr Kisić, što ste žensko". Leutar.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 28 October 2020.
5. Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Kraj epidemije malih boginja". www.rts.rs. Retrieved 28 October 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
6. "Srpski epidemiolog predstavlja Evropu na skupu u Vašingtonu: Virus malih boginja je globalni problem". Naši u svetu. 18 September 2019. Archived from the original on 23 September 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
7. "Zid ćutanja o unosnim poslovima Bojana Kisića, stručnjaci kažu - žaba je skuvana". N1 Srbija (in Serbian (Latin script)). Retrieved 28 October 2020.
8. "Ministarka Darija Kisić Tepavčević se učlanila u SNS, za sutra najavljen partijski događaj". Danas (in Serbian). 25 November 2021. Archived from the original on 25 November 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
9. "Darija Kisić Tepavčević učlanila se u SNS". B92.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 26 November 2021.