1. Marisol Touraine graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
22 Facts About Marisol Touraine
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Marisol Touraine studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure, where she specialised in economic and social issues.
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Marisol Touraine attended Harvard University but did not receive a degree.
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From 1988 to 1991, Touraine was an advisor to Prime Minister Michel Rocard on geostrategic issues.
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Marisol Touraine served as a member of the National Assembly of France for Indre-et-Loire from 1997 to 2002 for the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche political party.
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Marisol Touraine was defeated in the second round of the 2002 elections by Jean-Jacques Descamps.
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Marisol Touraine regained the district in the 2007 elections with a small majority, and served until 2012.
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Marisol Touraine served as Vice-President of the General Council of Indre-et-Loire from 2008 to 2011, and as its President from 2011 to 2012, when she resigned.
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Marisol Touraine has served as General councillor of Indre-et-Loire since 1998, having been re-elected in 2004 and in 2011.
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On 16 May 2012, Marisol Touraine was named by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault as Minister of Health and Social Affairs.
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In October 2012, Marisol Touraine announced that trial centres could open in 2012 in France for drug addicts to safely inject their own drugs.
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Marisol Touraine entered into negotiations with doctors and health insurance professional organisations to limit the prices of medical assistance.
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Marisol Touraine worked on implementing a 2015 reform aimed at making it easier for low-earners to get access to a doctor.
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Also during her term, Marisol Touraine steered France's response to both a MERS outbreak in 2013 and the Western African Ebola virus epidemic from 2013, during which several French nationals contracted the virus.
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When Prime Minister Valls declared that he would seek the Socialist Party's nomination and quit the government to focus on campaigning, Marisol Touraine was seen by news media as possible choice to replace him and lead what would effectively become a caretaker government; instead, the post went to Bernard Cazeneuve.
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In 2019, Marisol Touraine was elected chair of the Executive Board of Unitaid.
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In 2009, Marisol Touraine belonged to the "Future of Health Club", a lobby group funded by GlaxoSmithKline, the world's No 7 of pharmaceutical products, producing amongst other things, nicotine patches.
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In 2016, Marisol Touraine was one of two ministers who came out in open disagreement with the government's stance on a ban of burkinis.
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Marisol Touraine has a brother, Philippe, who is professor of endocrinology.
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Marisol Touraine is first cousin of Alberto Arenas, Chile's Budget Director during Michelle Bachelet's presidency.
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Marisol Touraine is married to diplomat Michel Reveyrand de Menthon, who is currently French ambassador to Chad.
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When President Hollande published a list of bank deposits and property held by all 38 ministers for first time 2012, Marisol Touraine declared personal assets worth 1.4 million euros, mainly property.