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> WHO DG: The eight men standing for the job
> HDN Moderation Team
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> There are now eight official candidates for the WHO Director General
> position (see names and short bios below). A short-list of five will be
> selected tomorrow (21st January) for further consideration and interview
> by the WHO Executive Board next week.
>
> A short bio for each candidate is presented below, and some of them have
> even set up dedicated web sites to support their nomination. These sites
> contain extended bios and other information about candidates. See below
> for further details.
>
> A description of the WHO DG selection process will also be sent to BTS
> later today.
>
> The candidates are:
>
> 1. Sir Djamil Fareed, Mauritius
> 2. Dr. Julio Frenk, Mexico
> 3. Dr. Karam Karam, Lebanon
> 4. Dr. Jong Wok Lee, Republic of Korea
> 5. Dr. Pascaal Manuel Mocumbi, Mozambique
> 6. Dr. Peter Piot, Belgium
> 7. Professor Ismail Sallam, Egypt
> 8. Dr. Joseph Williams, Cook Islands
>
> The single female candidate for the position, Professor Awa Marie
> Coll-Seck (Health Minister of Senegal), withdrew her candidacy over the
> weekend – apparently to give greatest chance of success to the remaining
> African candidate.
>
> Short candidate bios follow:
>
> 1. Sir Djamil Fareed (Mauritius)
>
> Is an adviser to the health ministry of Mauritius.
>
> 2. Julio Frenk Mora, MD, MPH, MA, PhD (Mexico)
>
> Currently serves as Mexico's minister of health, a post he has held since
> 2000. From 1998-2000, he was executive director of evidence and
> information for policy, at WHO in Geneva.
> On a national level, he has been vice president of the Mexican Foundation
> for Health and president of the Mexican Society of Quality in Health Care.
> He also was founding director of both the National Institute of Public
> Health of Mexico and the Centre of Public Health Research in the Ministry
> of Health.
> Widely respected as a physician, scholar and researcher, Dr. Frenk Mora is
> the author of 28 books and monographs as well as numerous articles in
> academic and non-academic reviews and newspapers, and a member of the
> editorial boards of various national and foreign reviews.
>
> Link to Julio Frenk Mora's longer biography can be read at:
>
> http://www1.oecd.org/forum2002/Speakers/Bios/Frenk.htm
>
> 3. Karam S. Karam, MD (Lebanon)
>
> Lebanon's current Minister of Tourism and Alternate Minister of Health.
> After serving as Health Minister for two years, he assumed his current
> position in 2000. Recognized as a leader in both the fields of tourism and
> health, he is a member of the Arab Council of Ministers of Tourism and the
> Executive Board of the World Tourism Organization and also sits on the
> Executive Board of the World Health Organization.
> Dr. Karam earned his medical degree from the American University of Beirut
> with a specialization in Obstetrics and Gynecology. After completing a
> post-doctoral fellowship at the Lahey Clinic Foundation, the University of
> California and Harvard Medical School, he joined the faculty of Johns
> Hopkins in Baltimore, MD, in 1973.
> Upon his return to Lebanon, he chaired the Department of Obstetrics and
> Gynecology at the American University of Beirut from 1987 until 1999.
> During his tenure as Minister of Health, he spearheaded efforts to reform
> Lebanon's health system and is credited with the establishment of a
> national system of hospital accreditation. He also worked to introduce
> universal health insurance coverage, opened several primary health care
> centers and created the National Organ Donation Committee and the National
> Eye Bank.
> In the international arena, Karam was a member of the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA
> coordinating committee for the U.N. from 1999-2002, a committee chairman
> for the World Health Assembly in 2000, the chairman of WHO's
> Administration, Budget and Finance Committee in 2001, and represented the
> Executive Board in the 2002 World Health Assembly. He has authored
> numerous papers and articles in the field of obstetrics and gynecology and
> has been honored for his many contributions to health and education.
>
> Link to Karam S. Karam's Website is at:
> http://www.karam-karam.com
>
> 4. Jong-Wook Lee, MD, MPH (Republic of Korea)
>
> Is the first director of the Global Partnership to Stop TB and a special
> representative of the director general of the World Health Organization.
> Since his appointment in 2000, Dr. Lee has launched the Global Drug
> Facility, an initiative to increase access to TB drugs.
> Lee's career with WHO has spanned nearly 20 years beginning at the county
> level as a leprosy consultant in Micronesia. In 1986, he moved to the
> Western Pacific Regional Office in Manila, where he became the regional
> adviser on chronic diseases. From 1990-1994, he headed up polio
> eradication efforts in the Western Pacific, and then in 1994 was appointed
> director of the WHO Global Programme for Vaccines and Immunizations and
> executive secretary of the Children's Vaccine Initiative.
> In recognition of Lee's abilities and accomplishments, the director
> general, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, appointed him senior policy adviser in
> 1998, a position Lee held until being tapped to direct Stop TB. Lee
> received his MD from Seoul National University, College of Medicine and
> his MPH from the University of Hawaii, School of Public Health.
>
> Jong-Wook Lee's longer biography can be read at:
>
> http://www.globalhealth.org/WHO/Lee.pdf
>
> 5. Pascoal Mocumbi, MD (Republic of Mozambique)
>
> Has served as Prime Minister of the Republic of Mozambique since December
> 1994. Prior to that, he headed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from
> 1987-1994 and the Ministry of Health from 1980-1987.
> Dr. Mocumbi received his medical degree from the University of Lausanne in
> Switzerland and has practiced medicine with a specialty in gynecology in
> hospitals throughout Mozambique. He was an active member of the World
> Health Organization's Task Force on Health and Development from 1989-1998,
> and since 1995, has been on the board of the International Women's Health
> Coalition.
> Mocumbi is committed to the importance of public health as an essential
> arm of sustainable development and has been a leader in the transformation
> of Mozambique's public healthcare system. He was a founding member of the
> Medical Association of Mozambique, the Public Health Association of
> Mozambique and Mozambique's Association of Defense of the Family, and he
> currently chairs the country's National AIDS Council. He is fluent in
> Portuguese, French and English and understands Spanish as well as several
> of Mozambique's native languages.
>
> Pascoal Mocumbi's Website isat:
> http://www.mocumbi.gov.mz/index.htm
>
> 6. Peter Piot, MD, PhD (Belgium)
>
> Has served as executive director of UNAIDS and under secretary-general of
> the United Nations since 1995. Under his leadership, world attention has
> become focused on the critical need for a global response to the AIDS
> pandemic.
> Born in Belgium, Dr. Piot earned his medical degree from the University of
> Ghent and his PhD in microbiology from the University of Antwerp. A major
> portion of his career has been spent as a professor and researcher at
> universities in Europe, Africa and the U.S., with emphasis on the
> epidemiology, virology and prevention of HIV infection, reproductive
> health of women and tuberculosis in the developing world. He is credited
> with the co-discovery of the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976.
> His work also led him to involve himself in AIDS policy development. He
> was a member of the National AIDS Committee in Belgium and served on
> various European committees on AIDS and public health. He co-founded in
> 1983 the first NGO in Belgium dedicated to AIDS. Piot was instrumental in
> the establishment of Project SIDA in Zaire, the first international
> project on AIDS in Africa.
> In 1992, he joined the World Health Organization as associate director of
> the Global Programme on AIDS. Fluent in three languages, Piot has authored
> 12 books and more than 500 scientific articles. He has received numerous
> awards for scientific achievement, including a knighthood from King Albert
> of Belgium in 1995.
> Link to Peter Piot's Website
> http://www.peterpiot.org/
>
> 7. Ismail Sallam, MD (Egypt)
>
> Served as Egypt's Minister of Health and Population from 1996 to 2002.
> During that time, he was responsible for reforms and strategies that
> transformed health care in Egypt. Dr. Sallam has been committed to the
> improvement of health equity and gender equality and launched the Healthy
> Egyptians 2010 Initiative, an agenda for health promotion, maintenance and
> disease prevention for the 21st century. Sallam was a professor of cardiac
> surgery prior to joining the Ministry. He has been active in the
> international health arena and, in 1999, was awarded the United Arab
> Emirates Health Foundation Prize for his contributions.
>
> 8. Dr. Joseph Williams, Cook Islands
>
> Is currently the Member of Parliament for the Cook Islands Overseas seat.
> He has also been prime minister in a previous Cook Islands coalition
> government and was also formerly the Cook Islands Health Minister.
>
> (Note of thanks: Most of the information above was taken from the web site
> of the Global Health Council: www.globalhealth.org)
>
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