Alexander Khodjaev

Alexander Valeryevich Khodjaev (also transliterated as Aleksandr Khodjaev; Belarusian: Алякса́ндр Вале́р’евіч Хаджа́еў; born in 1980) is a Belarusian psychiatrist and politician. He is the incumbent Minister of Health of the Republic of Belarus.

Born in Lyepyel to a career physician and later First Deputy Minister of Health Valery Khodjaev, Alexander eventually graduated from the Belarusian State Medical University and worked as a pathologist. He then went to the Belarusian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education from 2008 to 2011, where he changed career paths to become a psychiatrist. Afterward, he worked in the department of psychotherapy there until in 2018 when he started working in the Ministry of Health. In May 2021, he became the director of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health, and then in January 2024 was appointed Minister of Health to succeed Dmitry Pinevich. Since then, he has taken steps to combat the shortage of doctors in Belarus and to reduce reliance on foreign manufacturers of medicine while advocating for closer ties to the Ministry of Health of Russia after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.