- Margaret Chan
Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, OBE, JP, MSc., MD, MPH, FRCP (born 1947 in Hong Kong) is the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Chan was elected by the Executive Board of the WHO on 8 November 2006, and was endorsed in a special meeting of the World Health Assembly on the following day. Chan has previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994-2003), …
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(born April 20, 1939) is a Norwegian politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health. She is a former Prime Minister of Norway, and has served as the Director General of the World Health Organization. She now serves as an Environmental Envoy of the United Nations.
- Lee Jong-Wook
Lee Jong-wook was the Director-General of the World Health Organization for three years. He was born in Seoul, South Korea and died - while in office - in Geneva, Switzerland. Lee obtained a medical degree from Seoul National University, then enrolled at the University of Hawaii to study public health, earning a Master's degree. He joined the WHO in 1983, working on a variety of projects including the Global Programme for Vaccines and Immunizations and Stop TB.
- Paul Farmer
Dr. Paul Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is an American professor and physician, currently the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University and an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. His medical specialty is Infectious Diseases. Farmer is one of the founders of Partners In Health (PIH), an international health and social justice organization.
- Kevin de Cock
Kevin De Cock , M.D., director of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization Video | Transcript | Podcast The World Health Organization's Dr. Kevin De Cock talks about the global efforts to stem the spread of HIV and improve access to antiretroviral therapy. Kevin De Cock Biography
- Mario Raviglione
Dr Mario Raviglione has been Director of the Stop TB Department since 2003. He joined the World Health Organization in 1991 as a junior professional officer sponsored by the Italian Government, to work on TB/HIV and TB epidemiology in Europe. Later, he became responsible for setting up the global drug-resistance surveillance project and the new TB surveillance and monitoring system. Between 1999 and 2003, he was Coordinator for Tuberculosis Strategy and Operations globally, …
- Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich, Jr.(1932-) was the Acting Surgeon General of the United States from 1973 to 1977. *Acting Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service (1973-77) *Former Deputy Director, Pan American Health Organization (1978-1983) *Director, Office of International Health, Office of the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (1969-1977) *Chairman of Executive Board, World Health Organization (1972)
- Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra is an Indian medical doctor and writer. He has written extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine. He claims to be influenced by the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita from his native India, and quantum physics. He also said that he has been profoundly influenced by the teachings of J Krishnamurti.
- Jonathan Mann
Dr. Jonathan Mann (1947 - September 2, 1998) was a former head of the World Health Organization's AIDS program. Mann resigned his post at the WHO to protest the lack of response from the UN and international organization with regard to AIDS, and the actions of the then WHO director-general Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima. Mann's work against AIDS, his conflict with Dr.
- Jim Yong Kim
Dr. Jim Yong Kim is an American physician. He is a Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Director of the Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and a former director of the World Health Organization HIV/AIDS department.
- Marc Danzon
Marc Danzon is the Regional Director of the World Health Organization for Europe since 2000. He is now in his second mandate.
- Arata Kochi
Arata Kochi, a Japanese physician and public health expert, is the director of the World Health Organization's malaria program. He had previously been director of its tuberculosis programs for ten years.
- Carlo Urbani
Carlo Urbani was an Italian physician and the first to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as a new and dangerously contagious disease. His early warning to the World Health Organization (WHO) touched off a massive response that probably helped save the lives of millions of people around the world. In 2003, Urbani was called in to a Vietnamese hospital to look at patient Johnny Chen, …
- David L. Heymann
David L. Heymann, MD (born 1946 in Pennsylvania, USA) was appointed the Assistant Director-General, Communicable Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO) in February 2007. He is also the Director-General's Special Representative for Polio eradication. Heymann previously served as the Executive Director of WHO's Communicable Diseases Cluster, Director of the WHO Program on Emerging and other Communicable Diseases, …
- Brock Chisholm
Dr. George Brock Chisholm CC MC & Bar (May 18, 1896 - February 4, 1971) was a Canadian First World War veteran, medical practitioner and the first Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). He was a strong advocate of religious tolerance and often commented that man's worst enemy was not disease, which he felt was curable as long as men worked together, but man himself. Chisholm was born in Oakville, Ontario, to a family with deep ties to the region.
- Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.
- Paul Reiter
Paul Reiter is a professor of medical entomology at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France. He is a member of the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Committee on Vector Biology and Control. He was an employee of the Center for Disease Control (Dengue Branch) for 22 years.
- Anders Nordström
Anders Nordström is a Swedish physician who served as Acting Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 22 May 2006 to 8 November 2006. Nordström trained as a phyisician at Karolinska Institutet and has experience in the field of national and international health policy and planning and strategic leadership. Nordström worked with the Swedish Red Cross in Cambodia and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Iran.
- Larry Brilliant
Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Brilliant is a medical doctor, epidemiologist, technologist, author and philanthropist. Born in Detroit, Michigan (May 5, 1944), he received his undergraduate training as well as his MPH (Masters in Public Health) from the University of Michigan and his M.D. from Wayne State University. He moved to California for his internship at the Pacific Medical Center, and developed thyroid cancer from which he recovered.
- Pekka Puska
Pekka Puska (born 18 December 1945 in Vaasa) is a Finnish doctor, expert on public health and politician. He has been the head of the National Public Health Institute of Finland since 2003 and before that he was the temporary head of the institute since 2000. He has had great influence over Finnish medical science for a long time. He has also worked as a medical expert for the World Health Organization (WHO) since 1994, …
- David Walsh
David Walsh is the president and founder of the National Institute on Media and the Family based in Minneapolis, MN. Psychologist, educator, author and parent of three, Dr. Walsh is a self-proclaimed authority on parenting, family life and the impact of media on children and teens. He has written eight books including the national best seller "Why Do They Act That Way? A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen" (Free Press, 2004).
- Christopher Dye
Christopher Dye is Coordinator of Tuberculosis Monitoring and Evaluation at the World Health Organization and Gresham Professor of Physic in the City of London.<br><br> He was born in Belfast in 1956 and began professional life as an ecologist in the UK, having taken a first-class degree in biology and a DPhil in zoology from the universities of York and Oxford.
- Kazem Behbehani
Kazem Behbehani, PhD, FRCPath (UK), of Kuwait, joined the World Health Organization’s Geneva headquarters during 1990. He became WHO Assistant Director-General for External Relations & Governing Bodies in 2003 and in 2005 he became the WHO Envoy. He co-chairs Harvard University’s scientific advisory board for the environment and public health. He has held several key posts at WHO headquarters in Geneva since 1990, …
- Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling (born 1948 in Uppsala, Sweden) is since 1997 professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. From 1967 to 1974 he studied statistics and medicine at Uppsala University, and in 1972 he did public health at St John's Medical College in Bangalore. He became a licenced physician in 1976 and from 1979 to 1981 he served as District Medical Officer in Nacala in northern Mozambique.
- Joep Lange
Joep MA Lange (MD 1981, PhD 1987) is a clinical researcher from The Netherlands, specialising in HIV therapy. He is currently (2006) Professor of Medicine at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam and Senior Scientific Advisor to the International Antiviral Therapy Evaluation Centre, Amsterdam. He is also co-director of the HIV Netherlands Australia Research Collaboration (HIV-NAT), based in Thailand.
- Jiang Yanyong
Jiang Yanyong (Traditional Chinese: 蔣彥永, Simplified Chinese: 蒋彦永, Hanyu Pinyin: Jiǎng Yànyǒng, Wade-Giles: Chiang Yen-yung) (born 4 October 1931) is a Chinese physician from Beijing who publicized a coverup of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in China. He is a senior member of the Communist Party of China, and as a military doctor holds a rank within the People's Liberation Army which is equivalent to Major General.
- Charles Best
Dr. Charles Herbert Best, CC (February 27, 1899 - March 31, 1978) was a medical scientist. He was born in West Pembroke, Maine, USA to Canadian parents. While a 22-year-old student studying medicine at the University of Toronto, he worked as an assistant to Dr. Frederick Banting and played a role in the discovery of the pancreatic hormone insulin-one of the most significant advances in medicine at the time, enabling an effective treatment of diabetes.
- Ana Carolina Reston
Ana Carolina Reston Macan was a Brazilian fashion model of part Lebanese heritage. Macan was born to a middle class family in Jundiaí, on the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil. At the age of 13 she began her modeling career after winning a local beauty contest in her hometown. She was represented by renowned modeling agencies such as Ford, Elite and L'Équipe in countries such as China, Turkey, Mexico, and Japan, including prestigious ad campaigns such as Giorgio Armani.
- Peter A. Singer
Peter A. Singer, MD, MPH, FRCPC, is Senior Scientist and Co-Director of the Program on Life Sciences, Ethics and Policy at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network; Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto; and a Distinguished Investigator of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
- Hamid Ghodse
Hamid Ghodse has been President of the International Narcotics Control Board since 2004. He is Professor of Psychiatry and International Drug Policy at the St. George’s Medical School, University of London and the Director of the International Centre for Drug Policy at the United Nations, in Vienna. During his tenure at the INCB, Ghodse has made many statements indicating his support for continued cannabis prohibition, …
- Harvey Bialy
Harvey Bialy (born New York City, 1945) is an American molecular biologist and AIDS dissident. He was one of the original signatories to the letter establishing the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis, the editor of its first newsletter, and was a member of the controversial South African Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel convened by Thabo Mbeki in 2000.
- Mukesh Kapila
Dr. Mukesh Kapila is the Special Representative for HIV and AIDS of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). He was formerly a Director in the Department of Health Action in Crises of the World Health Organization. An employee of the government of the United Kingdom, he was on secondment to the United Nations. In 2003-2004 Kapila was the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, …
- Kamran Abbasi
Kamran Abbasi is a doctor and medical editor. He is currently editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine and chief executive and editor-in-chief of OnMedica (a popular website for GPs and health professionals). Formerly, Dr Abbasi was the acting editor of the British Medical Journal and of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. He has also worked as medical director of the UK-based independent health information company, Dr Foster.
- Trevor Hancock
Dr. Trevor Hancock was the first leader of the Green Party of Canada. Under him, the party ran 60 candidates in the 1984 federal election. He is a public health physician, and consults with the World Health Organization. Together with Dr. Leonard Duhl, he created the Healthy Cities project that looks at environmental aspects of sustainable urban development as a determinant of health.
- Luisel Ramos
Luisel Ramos (born c. 1984 - August 2, 2006) was a Uruguayan model. On August 2, 2006, at 9:15 p.m., Ramos died of heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa while participating in a fashion show during Fashion Week in Montevideo, Uruguay. Ramos had felt ill after walking the runway and subsequently fainted on her way back to the dressing room. She died at the age of 22. Ramos' father told police that she had gone "several days" without eating.
- David Weatherall
David Weatherall is a British physician and researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine. His research concentrated on the genetics of the haemoglobinopathies and, in particular, a group of inherited haematological disorders known as the thalassemias that are associated with abnormalities in the production of globin (the protein component of haemoglobin).
- Ali Maow Maalin
Ali Maow Maalin was the last person in the world known to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox. At age 23, Maalin was a cook at the hospital in the town of Merca, Somalia, as well as an occasional vaccinator for a World Health Organization smallpox eradication team. In October 1977, he went out to meet two children with smallpox symptoms being brought in from an outlying village.
- Halfdan T. Mahler
Dr. Halfdan T. Mahler of Denmark was born on 21 April 1923 at Vivild, Denmark. In 1951, he joined the World Health Organization (WHO) and spent almost ten years in India as Senior WHO Officer attached to the National Tuberculosis Programme. From 1962, he was Chief of the Tuberculosis Unit at the WHO Headquarters in Geneva until 1969, when he was appointed Director, Project Systems Analysis.
- Nadia Younes
Nadia Younes (June 13, 1946 - August 19, 2003) was an Egyptian national who spent her entire career, for over 33 years, in the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization, rising to high-level posts in a variety of areas. She was born in Cairo, Egypt, and earned a Master of Arts degree in political science and international relations from New York University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from Cairo University.
- Marcolino Gomes Candau
Dr. Marcolino Gomes Candau (30 May 1911-23 January 1983). Dr Candau joined the staff of the World Health Organization in Geneva in 1950 as Director of the Division of Organization of Health Services. Within a year, he was appointed Assistant Director-General in charge of Advisory Services. In 1952, he moved to Washington as Assistant Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau -- the WHO Regional Office for the Americas.