Alma Dagbjört Möller (born 24 June 1961) is an Icelandic doctor and politician. On 1 April 2018 she became the first woman to serve as the Director of Health since the office was established in 1760. Since February 2020, she has been one of the lead members of the Iceland's Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management addressing the

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in Iceland. On 17 June 2020, Alma was awarded a

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of the

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for services to health affairs and contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic. She was elected to the

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for the

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in the 2024 election. She became

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in the government of Prime Minister

Kristrún Frostadóttir Kristrún Mjöll Frostadóttir (; born 12 May 1988) is an Icelandic politician and economist who has served as the prime minister of Iceland since December 2024, and is the current leader of the Social Democratic Alliance. She was elected to the ...

Early life

Alma was born in

Siglufjörður Siglufjörður () is a small fishing town in a narrow fjord with the same name on the northern coast of Iceland. The population in 2011 was 1,206; the town has been shrinking in size since the 1950s when the town reached its peak of 3,000 inhabit ...

to Helena Sigtryggsdóttir and Jóhann Georg Möller. She was the youngest of 6 siblings that included Kristján L. Möller, a former parliamentarian and Minister of Communications. In May 1990, she became the first woman to serve as a helicopter doctor for the

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1961 births 20th-century women physicians 21st-century women physicians

Alma Möller Alma Dagbjört Möller (born 24 June 1961) is an Icelandic doctor and politician. On 1 April 2018 she became the first woman to serve as the Directorate of Health, Director of Health since the office was established in 1760. Since February 2020, ...

Living people

Women public health doctors Knights of the Order of the Falcon {{Iceland-med-bio-stub

Early life

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