Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane was Tunisia's health minister. She took office in the interim Tunisian government which began on January 28, 2011, after protests had dislodged a longstanding authoritarian government.
Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane earned a public health degree from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tunis (1978) and trained further in public health at Laval University (1979), the University of Chicago (1981) and the University of Tokyo (1988). She is a professor of preventive medicine with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tunis and head of the Laboratory for Research on the epidemiology and prevention of
cardiovascular disease
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Amnesty International
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Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane was born in 1950 in
El Ksar
El Ksar ( ar, القصر ') is a town and commune in the Gafsa Governorate, Tunisia. As of 2004 it had a population of 29,617.Gafsa Governorate
Gafsa Governorate ( ') is one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in central Tunisia, bordering Algeria. It covers an area of 7807 km2 and has a population of 337,331 (2014 census). Her husband, Mahmoud Ben Romdhane, is an economist and a member of the
Ettajdid Movement
The Ettajdid Movement (''Movement for Renewal'' ; ar, حركة التجديد, ' ; french: Mouvement Ettajdid), also referred to simply as Ettajdid, was a centre-left secularist political party in Tunisia, active from 1993 to 2012.
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