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At the time of her appointment to her current position, she was the Coordinator of the Inter-Country Support Team for the South and East African countries of WHO African Region. [ 4 ] Moeti was appointed as Regional Director of the WHO Regional Office for Africa on 27 January 2015, by the WHO Executive Board sitting at its 136th session in ...
The director general is elected by and answers to the World Health Assembly (WHA). [1] 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 ...
Jean Kaseya (born 1970), is a Congolese medical doctor and public health executive, who serves as the Director General at Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa-CDC), the African public health agency, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, since April 2023.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Tigrinya: ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ, sometimes spelled 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.
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [1]
The head of the organization is the director-general, elected by the World Health Assembly. [218] The term lasts for five years, and directors-general are typically appointed in May, when the Assembly meets. The current director-general is Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was appointed on 1 July 2017. [219]
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The World Health Assembly meets in the assembly hall of the Palace of Nations, in Geneva (Switzerland). 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.