Born in 1975 in Sarajevo. She graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Medicine in 2001. Kisic completed the obligatory medical internship during 2001 and 2002 at the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade and passed the professional exam in September 2002.

She defended her master's thesis in 2006. She defended her doctoral dissertation entitled "Predictive value of quality of life in the assessment of disease outcomes in patients with multiple sclerosis" at the Belgrade Faculty of Medicine in 2010.

Kisic completed her residency in epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade in 2008 and her sub-speciality training in the epidemiology of non-communicable diseases in 2017.

In May 2007, she was elected to the position of assistant lecturer at the Institute of Epidemiology at the Belgrade Faculty of Medicine. In February 2011, she was appointed senior lecturer. Since June 2017, she has been an associate professor for the narrow scientific field of Epidemiology. In January 2023, she was appointed full professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Medicine.

Since February 2019, Kisic has been teaching epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine in Kosovska Mitrovica.

Since 2015, she has been a member of the Republic Expert Commission for Oncology.

She is a co-author of six books in the field of medicine. The total number of published scientific papers from the SCI list is 122.

Since December 2017, Kisic has held the position of Deputy Director of the Public Health Institute of Serbia "Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut".

She served as Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs in the government of the Republic of Serbia from October 2020 to October 2022.

She speaks English.

She is a mother of one child.

Darija Kisic