Cecília Györgyi Müller (born 27 November 1958) is a Hungarian physician and Chief Medical Officer of Hungary. She is the head of NNGYK (Nemzeti Népegészségügyi és Gyógyszerészeti Központ, '' National Centre for Public Health and Pharmacy'' in English) and has also served as a member of the government's

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Taskforce.

Biography

She attended medical school at the

University of Pécs The University of Pécs ( , PTE; ) is one of the largest higher education institutions in Hungary. The history of the university began in the Middle Ages, when in 1367, at the request of Louis I of Hungary, King Louis I the Great, Pope Urban V gr ...

and graduated in 1984 cum laude. She holds four professional degrees including public health, occupational medicine, preventive medicine and primary care medicine. Müller began her career at Szent Pantaleon Hospital. Then she worked as an occupational physician. From 1991 to 1996 Müller worked as a primary care physician in

Nagyvenyim Nagyvenyim is a village in Fejér county, Hungary. ''Partnership:'' Altomünster (Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north ...

. After that she became Health Commissioner of

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. In 2010, as Health Commissioner for the Central Transdanubia region, she was responsible for the cleanup of the

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for which she later received a ministerial award from

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, Interior Minister of Hungary. Müller later worked as the head of the Public Health Department of Fejér County Government Office. Then, she was named head of the former NNK and Chief Medical Officer of Hungary. In 2020, she has worked as a member of the government's

Taskforce. As chief medical officer, she has been a regular participant in the government's press conferences on the pandemic. Since 2009, she has been a pastoral assistant at Our Lady Parish in

Honors

* Honvédelemért Kitüntető Cím (I. class; 2013) *Honorary citizen of Nagyvenyim (2015) * Fenyvessy Memorial Award (2015) * Prize for Public Health (2015)

References

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