Doctor, university lecturer and politician who served as Minister of Health of the Slovak Republic from March 2018 to December 2019. From April 2016 to March 2018, she held the position of State Secretary at the Ministry of Health. In March 2020, she served as an advisor to the Prime Minister during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. She completed her doctoral studies in general medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava and her doctoral studies in public health at the Faculty of Health and Social Work, University of Trnava in Trnava. Later, she passed her specialisation examinations in internal medicine and tropical medicine at the Slovak University of Health Sciences in Bratislava (SZU) and habilitation at the St. Elizabeth University of Health and Social Work in Bratislava, where she also obtained the Master of Health Administration (MHA) degree. Since 2003 she worked at the Internal Clinic of the University Hospital with Polyclinic Trnava (since 1 April 2003 University Hospital Trnava) and later at the 1st Internal Clinic of SZU and University Hospital Bratislava and at the Polyclinic of Foreign Diseases. She is a teacher at the Slovak Medical University in Bratislava.