Viktor Liashko

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

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

From 2014 to February 2018, he serves as a Chairman of the NGO "Infection Control in Ukraine".[4]

From 2015 to 2018, he acted as a public health consultant in the "HIV Service Reform in Action", a 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, 2018, Liashko returned to the civil service, taking the position of Deputy Director General of the Center for Public Health.[5]

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

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

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