Ms Oxana Domenti

WHO Representative to the European Union (WEU)

Prior to being appointed as WHO Representative to the European Union, Dr Oxana Domenti served as Senior Adviser to the WHO Regional Director for Europe on multilateral affairs. Before joining WHO, Dr Domenti was Ambassador of the Republic of Moldova to Switzerland, and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Moldova to the United Nations Office at Geneva (2018–2020), the World Trade Organization and other international organizations based in Geneva.

Dr Domenti was a member of Parliament in the Republic of Moldova (2009–2017) and served as President of the Parliamentary Health and Social Security Committee. As a parliamentarian, she also chaired the European and Central Asian Branch of the Global Parliamentary TB Caucus.

Prior to being elected to Parliament, she was Adviser to the President on social development issues (2003–2009) while also serving as a member of the Governing Board of the National Health Insurance Company and of the National Social Security Agency.

Dr Domenti has taught health financing at the School of Public Health Management of the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Nicolae Testemitanu”, and financial policy and investment at the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova.

Throughout her career, she has contributed to the development of social and health policies at national and regional levels, particularly in the areas of health financing, tobacco control, tuberculosis, primary health care and access to medicines.

Dr Domenti holds doctoral and Master of Science degrees. She received her academic training in economics at the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova, in European social security at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and in public health at the University of London (United Kingdom).