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What can we expect from the leadership of the recently elected World Health Organization Director-General, Dr Tedros?

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Yogan Pillay, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Timothy Holtz

Abstract


On 23 May 2017, the World Health Assembly (WHA) elected a new Director-General (DG) to replace the outgoing Dr Margaret Chan. From a shortlist of three candidates, members of the WHA elected Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to lead the premier United Nations (UN) organisation on global health.

Authors' affiliations

Yogan Pillay, National Department of Health, South Africa

Anne-Emanuelle Birn, University of Toronto, Canada

Timothy Holtz, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., USA

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Keywords

World Health Organization; WHO; Director-General; Tedros

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South African Medical Journal 2017;107(8):648-649. DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.2017.v107i8.12713

Article History

Date submitted: 2017-07-28
Date published: 2017-07-28

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