Background
Hanna Hopko was born on 4 March 1982 in Hanachivka, Peremyshliany Raion, Lviv Oblast.
Hanna Hopko was born on 4 March 1982 in Hanachivka, Peremyshliany Raion, Lviv Oblast.
In 2008, she completed the Leadership Program in TC at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2009, she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Social Communications at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 2012, she studied at the Ukrainian School of Political Studies.
From 2005 to 2007, Hopko worked as the communications manager of the Ukraine Citizen Action Network (UCAN/ISC, United States Agency for International Development contractor) in Kyiv. She led environmental journalism training programs held in Donetsk Oblast, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. In 2009, she co-founded the "Life" Regional Advocacy Center (the primary partner in Ukraine of the Bloomberg Initiative to reduce tobacco use, ENSP and Farm Credit Administration member, World Health Organization partner in Ukraine) and served as a deputy director until April 2012.
In 2009, she became an advocacy coordinator of the National Coalition of Non-governmental organizations and Initiatives Foreign Smoke-Free Ukraine.
She successfully advocated for 5 laws in tobacco control (on total tobacco advertising and sponsorship ban and on complete smoking ban in all public and working indoor area, implementation of Decree on pictorial graphic warning implementation on cigarette packs, tobacco tax increase). According to the World Health Organization"s 2011 report on tobacco, Ukraine moved from 4th to 29th in the world in terms of the prevalence of smoking.
From 2010 to 2012, Hopko was an adviser for the Morality, Spirituality and National Health parliamentary group. From February to September 2014, she worked as a coordinator of the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative and served in an inter-factional parliamentary group, Platform of the Reforms.
She was elected to the Verkhovna Rada and subsequently named the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Supporting the ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, she stated: "lieutenant is a demonstration of readiness to build a rule-of-law state in which it is possible to punish for crimes against humanity and genocide." Hopko stated that the constitutional amendment was "an important step towards comprehensive change in Ukraine" and contained "no concessions to Russia".
From January 2011 to September 2014, she was an advocacy expert at the Institute of Political Education (expert at seminars for assistants, advisors of Members of the Parliament, civic activist) and at the National Democracy Institute (NDI). Although not a member of the party, Hopko appeared first on the party list of Self Reliance during the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. Hopko was expelled from Self Reliance on 31 August 2015 for her support of amendments to the Ukrainian Constitution that would lead to decentralization and greater powers for areas held by pro-Russian separatists.
She is also a member of the executive committee of reforms of the National Council of Reforms and the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC). In January 2012, she became a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ohkmatdyt National Children"s Specialized Hospital.