Viktor Liashko

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Kyrylovych and the family name is Liashko.

Viktor Liashko
Віктор Ляшко
Liashko in 2020
Minister of Healthcare
Incumbent
Assumed office
20 May 2021
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterDenys Shmyhal[1]
Preceded byMaksym Stepanov[1]
Personal details
Born (1980-04-24) 24 April 1980 (age 44)
Osova, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
Political partyIndependent

Viktor Kyrylovych Liashko (Ukrainian: Віктор Кирилович Ляшко; born 24 April 1980) is a Ukrainian politician and physician. He has been Minister of Healthcare of Ukraine since 20 May 2021.[2][3] He was Chief State Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine from 2019 to 2021.

Biography

Viktor Liashko was born on 24 April 1980 in the village of Osova in Rivne Oblast. In 2003 he graduated from the Bogomolets National Medical University.

From 2003 to 2010, he worked in the sanitary and epidemiological service of Kyiv Oblast. Later, he moved to the Ministry of Health, starting as a chief specialist and eventually becoming director of the State Sanitary Department of Ukraine.

From 2014 to February 2018, he served as a Chairman of the Non-governmental organization "Infection Control in Ukraine".[4]

From 2015 to 2018, he acted as a public health consultant in the "HIV Service Reform in Action", a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) project. In addition, from 2014 to 2016, Viktor Liashko was one of the experts in the Reanimation Package of Reforms NGO.

In 2018, Viktor Liashko was a member of the public organization "Health Platform". The same year, Liashko returned to the civil service, taking the position of Deputy Director General of the Centre for Public Health.[5]

On 24 December 2019, Liashko was appointed as Deputy Minister of Healthcare of Ukraine, serving under Zoriana Skaletska. In this position, he participated in the evacuation of Ukrainian citizens from Wuhan, China at the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic.

From 11 March 2020, he served as a Chief Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine.[6]

On 20 May 2021, he was appointed as the Minister of Health of Ukraine by the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament). The appointment was supported by 262 people's deputies of Ukraine.[1][7]

Family

He is married. His wife is Iryna. Has a daughter, Daria.[8]

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b c Liashko appointed Ukraine's new Health Minister, UNIAN (20 May 2021)
  2. ^ "Ukraine appoints new health minister to speed up COVID-19 vaccinations". Reuters. 20 May 2021. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Ukraine appoints new health minister to speed up COVID-19 vaccinations". nationalpost. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Рада призначила Ляшка міністром охорони здоров'я". www.ukrinform.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Хто замінить Степанова: біографія Віктора Ляшка". 24 Канал (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  6. ^ Kitsoft. "Кабінет Міністрів України - Про призначення Ляшка В. К. заступником Міністра охорони здоров'я України — головним державним санітарним лікарем України". www.kmu.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  7. ^ "Віктор Ляшко став новим міністром охорони здоров'я. Рада підтримала його призначення | Громадське телебачення". hromadske.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  8. ^ "PEP: Профіль: Ляшко Віктор Кирилович, Міністерство охорони здоров'я України, Заступник міністра - головний державний санітарний лікарь України". 23 March 2020. Archived from the original on 23 March 2020. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  9. ^ "Decree of the President of Ukraine № 593/2022". Office of the President of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 14 September 2022.