Diane Gashumba MD, MMed (Pediatrics), is a

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n pediatrician, medical administrator, politician, diplomat and

n Ambassador-designate to the

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since June 12, 2021. She served as

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in the

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Edouard Ngirente. She was appointed to that position on 4 October 2016. Before that, from 26 March 2016 until 4 October 2016, Gashumba served as the Cabinet Minister of Gender and Family Promotion in the cabinet of Prime Minister

Anastase Murekezi Anastase Murekezi (born 15 June 1952) is a Rwandan politician. He studied in Groupe Scolaire Officiel de Butare (GSOB) and went on to the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium to study agriculture. He was the Minister of Public Service and L ...

Background and education

Gashumba holds a

Doctor of Medicine Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D., from the Latin language, Latin ''Medicinae Doctor'') is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions. In the United States, and some other countries, the M.D. denotes a profes ...

( MD) and a

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(

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), specializing in

Pediatrics Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until th ...

Career

According to the website of the Rwandan ministry of health, Gashumba had been practicing medicine for 17 years as of 2016. For a period of three years she served as the medical director of Kibagabaga Hospital and Muhima Hospitals. Between 2010 and 2016, she worked with a USAID-funded child and maternal health project as "Senior Team Leader" for quality and as "Deputy Chief of Party" The $57.3 million project covered 23 of Rwanda's 30 districts. Since 2018, Gashumba has been serving on the joint

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/WHO Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), co-chaired by

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and

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Other activities

* RBM Partnership to End Malaria, Member of the Board (since 2019)Two outstanding women leaders join the RBM Partnership to End Malaria Board
RBM Partnership to End Malaria, press release of 4 November 2019.

References

External links

Website of the Rwanda Ministry of Health
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Career

Other activities

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