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8 de sept. de 2012 · Margaret Chan is a woman who needs little introduction. As WHO Director-General, her face is a fixture on news bulletins whenever there is a serious disease outbreak, drug safety issue, or food scare. But it was the less sensational—although some would argue more important—work that Chan and WHO are doing to promote universal health coverage that she was keen to talk about when she spoke ...
14 de oct. de 2015 · Chan is used to crises; as Hong Kong, China's Director of Health, she fought devastating outbreaks of bird flu and SARS before taking WHO's top job in 2006. Science spoke to Chan on 10 October here, where she talked about the lessons from Ebola and the dangers of antimicrobial resistance at a meeting of the G7 health ministers.
9 de jun. de 2007 · WHO's new Director-General Margaret Chan has now been in office for 5 months. At the 60th World Health Assembly in May, she announced her refined vision for the global health agency, marking a substantial shift from the priorities of her predecessor. Udani Samarasekera reports. When the late Lee Jong-wook, former Director-General of WHO, took ...
23 de may. de 2012 · The World Health Assembly today appointed Dr Margaret Chan for a second five-year term as Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). In her acceptance speech to health ministers and representatives of WHO’s Member States, Dr Chan pledged her continued commitment to improve the health of the most vulnerable.“In my view, universal coverage is the single most powerful concept ...
Dr Margaret FD Chan BSc, MD (Canada) MSc PH (Singapore) Nationality: Chinese Age: 63. Since 2007, Dr Chan has served as the Director-General of WHO. She joined WHO in 2003, serving first as Director of the Department of Protection of the Human Environment, and from 2005, as Assistant Director-General of Communicable Diseases and Representative ...
29 de abr. de 2024 · Margaret Chan (born 1947, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-born Chinese civil servant who served as director general (2007–17) of the World Health Organization (WHO). Chan attended Northcote College of Education in Hong Kong before moving to Canada, where she earned B.A. (1973) and M.D. (1977) degrees from the University of Western Ontario .
1 de nov. de 2011 · Dr Margaret Chan introduces proposed reforms for WHO priorities. 1 November 2011. Mr Chairman, You have asked that Board members structure their discussion around the three chapters of the reform paper. I would like to open the debate with a few comments about the first chapter you will discuss, on WHO programmes and priority setting.
