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What can we expect from the leadership of the recently elected World Health Organization Director-General, Dr Tedros?
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
Article History
Date submitted: 2017-07-28
Date published: 2017-07-28
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