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Candidates for Director-General can be proposed by Member States, then nominated by the executive board and appointed by the World Health Assembly. [5]The appointment process begins more than one year prior to the May vote, when the World Health Organization sends out a letter informing Member States that the nomination process has begun.
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.
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.
Chisholm’s vision for the WHO was impractical and a failure. The organization evolved almost literally in spite of its director general." [21] At his death, the New York Times remembered Chisholm as a "small-town doctor who became director general of the World Health Organization" and also called him "Prophet of Disaster." [2]
Argentina has announced it will pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO), mirroring a similar move by US President Donald Trump last month. ... Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for global public health. [2] It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and has six regional offices [3] and 150 field offices worldwide. Only sovereign states are eligible to join, and it is the largest intergovernmental health organization at the ...
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 ...
Category for director-generals of the World Health Organization Pages in category "World Health Organization directors-general" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.