Sanja Musić Milanović
Sanja Musić Milanović | |
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| First Lady of Croatia | |
| Assumed office 19 February 2020 | |
| President | Zoran Milanović |
| Preceded by | Jakov Kitarović |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sanja Musić 1969 (age 53–54) Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
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| Website | Government website |
Sanja Musić Milanović (born 1969) is a Croatian scientist and a professor at the Medical School of the University of Zagreb. She is the wife of Zoran Milanović, the fifth President of Croatia and former Prime Minister.[1]
Education and career
Musić Milanović graduated from the Medical School of the University of Zagreb, after which she attended the international postgraduate study programme Master in Public Health Methodology on Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté de Médecine, Ecole de Santé Publique where she earned the title of Master of Science. Musić Milanović earned PhD on the Medical School of the University of Zagreb on the topic of demographic, behavioral and socio-economic determinants of obesity in Croatian adults.[2]
Musić Milanović is an assistant professor at the Department for Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Medical Informatics on the Medical School of the University of Zagreb. Her areas of work are epidemiology and health promotion. Musić Milanović is Head of the Health Promotion Division on the Croatian Institute of Public Health which is the Reference Centre of the Ministry of Health for Health Promotion where she leads the implementation of the National Programme „Healthy Living“.[3] [4]
Private life
Musić's father Ivan "Ive" Musić hails from Lišane Ostrovičke near Benkovac. Her mother Ana Matić is a Herzegovinian Croat from Broćanac near Neum.[5]
Musić met Zoran Milanović at a New Year's Eve party in 1991 and married him in 1994.[5] They have two children.[6]
In 2014, when Musić was a guest in the Croatian Radio show Izaberi zdravlje, she sparked controversy after she stated: "When it's said that brown bread that we recommend is more expensive than white bread, it initially is more expensive, but you can simply cut brown bread into thinner slices."[7] The media later compared the statement to "Let them eat cake", calling Musić the Croatian Marie Antoinette.[8] In 2022 Musić Milanović sparked another controversy, when media discovered that she pressured teachers and a principal of Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb which her son attended in order to increase her son's final grade at the end of the school year from 4 to 5 (with 5 being the highest grade).[9]
References
- ^ "Biography of Zoran Milanović".
- ^ "Dr Med - University of Zagreb School of Medicine Digital Repository". University of Zagreb.
- ^ "Assistant Professor Sanja Musić Milanović".
- ^ "Department of Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Medical Informatics".
- ^ a b Radoš, Ivica (12 January 2020). "Sanja je bila samozatajna djevojka, a izlazila je u diskoteke Saloon i Gjuru". Večernji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 26 July 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Tko je Sanja Musić Milanović".
- ^ "Premijerova supruga: Ako je crni kruh skup, režite ga tanje". 24sata (in Croatian). 28 October 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ J. C. (28 October 2014). "Regionalni mediji: Milanovićeva supruga je hrvatska Marija Antoaneta". Index.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 26 July 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Telegram.hr. "'Sanja Musić Milanović pritiskala je školu svog sina. Tjedan dana nakon kraja digli su mu ocjene'". Telegram.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2022-07-05.
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