Ala Nemerenco

Ala Nemerenco (; born 21 August 1959) is a Moldovan physician and politician. She served as Minister of Health in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Natalia Gavrilița and Dorin Recean.

She served as Minister of Health, Labour and Social Protection from 8 June 2019 to 14 November 2019 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Maia Sandu. Viorica Dumbrăveanu was appointed as her successor.

Early life She was born on 21 August 1959 in Soloneț, Soroca district, Moldovan SSR. From 1976 to 1982 she attended the Faculty of General Medicine, where she graduated from. After graduating from medical school, she became an intern at the Republican Clinical Hospital. 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. 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. 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. She strongly supported the introduction of COVID-19 vaccinations.