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Darija Kisić Tepavčević, Photo: Silkscreen

The candidate for Minister of Labor, Employment, Veterans Affairs and Social Affairs is Darija Kisić Tepavčević, who became known to the general public when, as an epidemiologist and deputy director of the “Trampoline” Institute, she was appointed a member of the crisis staff of infectious diseases COVID-19.

This was announced today by Prime Minister-designate Ana Brnabić after the SNS Presidency session, and Kisić will replace Zoran Djordjević in that position.

Kisic was born on August 20, 1975 in Sarajevo. He comes from a family of academic citizens. Father Bogdan is an electrical engineer, who spent his working life at the Energoinvest company in Sarajevo, and mother Vesna is a doctor and pediatrician.

Slobodan Vukovic finished primary school in Sarajevo as a student of the generation. He continued his education at the Third Gymnasium.

Unfortunately, at the age of 17, she was greeted by war and family separation. She and her brother moved to Bileća, to their father’s house. While the parents stayed in Sarajevo.

In Bileća, Kisić also finished the third and fourth years with great success at the Golub Kureš secondary school in Bileća.

He enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine in the Serbian capital, graduating in 2001 with an average of 9.60.

Since she was a good student the following year, she had the opportunity to start working as an intern in Epidemiology.

In 2006 he specialized in epidemiology at the Belgrade Faculty of Medicine, and then received his doctorate with the highest marks on the subject of predictive value of quality of life in evaluating disease progression in patients with multiple sclerosis.

One of the main roles was entrusted to him during the smallpox epidemic, which affected Serbia during 2017 and 2018, and in 2019 to represent Europe in the Initiative for the global elimination of smallpox and rubella, which was held in Washington.

In his career thus far, he has published more than 120 scientific papers.