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The current director-general is Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was appointed on 1 July 2017, [ 2 ] and re-appointed on 24 May 2022. [ 3 ] The Director-General also leads the World Health Organization Secretariat and is also the ex-officio Secretary of the World Health Assembly, the World Health Organization Executive Board, and of all ...
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.
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 formally began its work on September 1, 1948. [5]
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 ...
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.
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 ...
He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organisation founded by Nelson Mandela. [ 5 ] Annan joined the United Nations in 1962, working for the World Health Organization 's Geneva office.