Sabin Nsanzimana is a Rwandan epidemiologist, currently serving as the
Minister of Health
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Some governments have separate ministers for mental heal ...
in the
Government of Rwanda
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a mea ...
. He is a former Director General of
Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC).
Education
Nsanzimana attended Minor Seminary Virgo Fidelis and went on to study medicine at the
University of Rwanda
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. He also holds a master's degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the same University. He completed a PhD in Epidemiology at
the University of Basel, Switzerland. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled "Optimizing the Effectiveness for Individual- and Community-Level Outcomes in the Era of Pre-and on ART in Rwanda".
Nsanzimana is a respected researcher among Rwandans with a high number of citations.
Career
For the past decade, Nsanzimana worked in the national HIV Program. Before serving as the Director General, Nsanzimana served as the Director of the National HIV Program in Rwanda Biomedical Center. He shortly served as the Director General of the University Teaching Hospital of Butare. In November 2022, Nsanzimana was appointed as the new Minister of Health, replacing Dr. Ngamije Daniel.
Personal life
As of June 2018, Nsanzimana is married and has three children.
References
Living people
Health ministers of Rwanda
Year of birth missing (living people)
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