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The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) is the chief executive officer of the World Health Organization and the principal advisor to the United Nations on matters pertaining global health. The director general is elected by and answers to the World Health Assembly (WHA). [ 1 ] The current director-general is Tedros Adhanom ...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Tigrinya: ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ, sometimes spelt ቴድሮስ ኣድሓኖም ገብረየሱስ; [1] [a] born 3 March 1965) [2] is an Ethiopian [2] public health official, researcher, [3] diplomat, and the Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017.
Budget. $6.83 billion (2024–25) Website. who.int. The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. [2] It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and has six regional offices [3] and 150 field offices worldwide. [4] The WHO was established on April 7, 1948, and ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Negotiations on new rules for dealing with pandemics are underway at the World Health Organization (WHO), with a target date of May 2024 for a legally binding agreement to be ...
Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun (born 21 August 1947) is a Chinese-Canadian [ 1 ] physician, who served as the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegating the People's Republic of China [ 3 ] from 2006 to 2017. Chan previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994–2003) and representative of the WHO ...
The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the forum through which the World Health Organization (WHO) is governed by its 194 member states. It is the world's highest health policy setting body and is composed of health ministers from member states. The members of the WHA generally meet every year in May in Geneva at the Palace of Nations, the location ...
McCune–Reischauer. Kim Yong. Kim during the WEF 2013. Jim Yong Kim (Korean : 김용; born December 8, 1959), also known as Kim Yong (김용 /金墉), is an American physician and anthropologist who served as the 12th president of the World Bank from 2012 to 2019.
In office 2017 – March 2019. Soumya Swaminathan (born 2 May 1959) is an Indian paediatrician and clinical scientist known for her research on tuberculosis and HIV. [ 1 ] From 2019 to 2022, she served as the chief scientist at the World Health Organization under the leadership of Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. [ 2 ]