Dafina Gexha-Bunjaku

Dafina Gexha-Bunjaku is a Kosovar Albanian epidemiologist and current deputy minister of health of the Republic of Kosovo.

After a successful career with the Kosovo Institute of Public Health, she joined the second Kurti government as deputy minister in March 2021.

[1][2] Gexha-Bunjaku received her MD degree from the University of Pristina in 2004, after a hiatus during the Kosovo War and its aftermath.

[3] During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kosovo, while part of the national public health institute, Gexha-Bunjaku helped draft prevention and control measures that received international praise[by whom?].

She also served as the Kosovo coordinator for the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control and co-designed the family medicine program supported by WHO and the UK Royal College of General Practitioners.