WHO Director-General opens high-level meeting on Ebola vaccines
In her opening remarks, Dr Chan used a brief overview of the Ebola situation to illustrate the important role that vaccines could play in reducing the impact of the outbreaks. She noted the great sense...
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25 January 2015 -- Dr Chan's speech at the Special Session of the Executive Board on Ebola
View ArticleEbola conference: From emergency to recovery
In her remarks to the Brussels conference on Ebola, Dr Margaret Chan stressed the urgent need to improve international preparedness for disease events, like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, that are...
View ArticleFrom crisis to sustainable development: lessons from the Ebola outbreak
Dr Margaret Chan used her lecture, in the Women in Science series, to discuss lessons from West Africa’s outbreak of Ebola virus disease. As she noted, WHO and others underestimated how a well-known...
View ArticleWHO Director-General addresses high-level meeting on Ebola research and...
In her opening remarks, Dr Margaret Chan thanked scientists, public health experts, and the pharmaceutical industry for uniting, in unprecedented ways, to develop new medical products for Ebola in...
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Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General, opens the 68th World Health Assembly
View ArticleWHO Director-General addresses international conference of nurses
A person who saves a life is said to be a hero. A person who saves hundreds of lives is obviously a nurse. In her address to the International Council of Nurses conference, Dr Margaret Chan describes...
View ArticleWHO Director-General briefs the UN Security Council on the Ebola situation
In her remarks to the Security Council, Dr Margaret Chan described dramatic improvements in the Ebola response that followed stepped-up international support, and praised the unwavering commitment of...
View ArticleWHO Director-General addresses the Review Committee of the International...
In her statement, Dr Margaret Chan drew attention to 3 main weaknesses of the IHR revealed during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. She reviewed specific changes recommended by recent expert groups,...
View ArticleWHO Director-General addresses Institute of Medicine Ebola workshop
In her presentation to an IOM workshop on global health governance, Dr Margaret Chan stressed the importance of having core capacities in place to detect outbreaks early, diagnose the cause, and mount...
View ArticleWHO Director-General addresses Regional Committee for Europe
Dr Margaret Chan outlined the complex new challenges that confront health initiatives during the new era of sustainable development. She used recent behaviours of the tobacco and soda industries to...
View ArticleWHO Director-General delivers lecture at Georgetown University’s Global...
In her lecture on global health’s 21st century governance challenges, Dr Margaret Chan explored the complexity of today’s public health challenges and the corresponding need for effective global...
View ArticleWHO Director-General addresses G7 health ministers on Ebola
In her remarks, Dr Margaret Chan looked at factors that helped make the Ebola outbreak in West Africa the largest, deadliest, and most complex in history. She stressed the need to have fundamental...
View ArticleWHO Director-General addresses Princeton - Fung Global Forum on lessons...
In her keynote address, Dr Margaret Chan explored the role that information and communications technology plays in outbreaks. Using the examples of SARS and Ebola, she showed how this role varies...
View ArticleWHO Director-General briefs UN General Assembly on Ebola
WHO Director-General briefs UN General Assembly on Ebola
View ArticleWHO Director-General addresses the Executive Board
In her address, Dr Margaret Chan provided an update on the Ebola situation in West Africa. She described a new emergency programme that transforms the way WHO responds to outbreaks and humanitarian...
View ArticleWHO Director-General launches the European Medical Corps
In her keynote address, Dr Margaret Chan explained why launching the European Medical Corps marks a sea of change in the world’s preparedness to respond to public health emergencies.
View ArticleWHO Director-General addresses UK medicines regulatory authority
In her lecture at the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, Dr Margaret Chan described the multiple ways in which regulatory authorities protect public health on a daily basis.
View ArticleWHO Director-General addresses high-level conference on global health security
Dr Margaret Chan welcomed the initiative aimed at strengthening country capacities to implement the International Health Regulations. As she noted, the conference signaled a high level political...
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