Zora Levačić, dr.med.

Zora Levačić was born in year 1952 in Čakovec, Republic of Croatia. She completed her medical studies in 1976 at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Zagreb and specialized in epidemiology from 1979 to 1984 at the University of Ljubljana. Later, in 1995, she trained for a leadership position in the field of healthcare management. In 2004, she passed the General Administrative Procedure Act at the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor.

In 1977, she began her working career as a medical doctor at the General Practitioner's Clinic of the Pomurje Health Institute in Murska Sobota. Then, from 1978 to 1984, she worked at the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology of the Institute of Public Health in Murska Sobota, which she later chaired as a specialist of epidemiology. In 1989, she took over the management of the Institute of Public Health in Murska Sobota as director and remained in this position until 2004.

From 2004 to 2006, she worked as supervising physician at the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia, ruling on patients’ rights related to absence from work, medical treatments and medical technical devices.

In 2006 she took over the management of the Institute for Health Care Maribor, the largest regional institute in the country. She actively participated in the reorganization of regional health care institutes and the Institute for Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia in 2013 and was the first director of the newly established National Laboratory for Health, Environment and Food (abbreviation: NLZOH) with headquarters in Maribor, from 2014 to 2018. During this period, the Strategic Development Plan of NLZOH until 2020 was prepared. For the following two years she worked at NLZOH as a senior medical specialist in the Centre for Microbiology of NLZOH and was also appointed manager of the Maribor location. She retired in the second half of 2020.

At the beginning of 2022, she reactivated her working status and, from January 24, 2022 on, has been leading the Health Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia as the Acting Chief Health Inspector.