Zarifa Aliyeva

Who is Zarifa Aliyeva?

Zarifa Aziz gizi Aliyeva was an Azerbaijani ophthalmologist, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan and professor.

Zarifa Aliyeva is the author of 14 monographs and hundreds of research papers, 12 rationalization proposals. Her father was Aziz Aliyev – People’s commissar of public health services of the Azerbaijan SSR, later the first secretary of the Communist party’s oblast committee of Dagestan. Zarifa Aliyeva was the third president of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev’s wife and the fourth president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev’s mother.

Main part of Zarifa Aliyeva’s activity was related to Azerbaijan State Institute of Advanced Medical Studies.