- Jack Cafferty
Jack Cafferty (born 1942) is a CNN commentator and a host of the weekend financial show "In The Money". In the summer of 2005, Cafferty joined "The Situation Room", CNN's new weekday afternoon newscast. Cafferty formerly co-anchored CNN's weekday morning broadcast, "American Morning". Before CNN, Cafferty worked for several New York television stations.
- Paul Rodgers
Paul Rodgers is an English rock singer-songwriter best known for being a member of Free and Bad Company. Both bands experienced major international success in the 1970s. Before establishing a career as a solo artist, he was also a member of The Firm and The Law. He has recently toured and recorded with Queen.
- Ian McLagan
Ian McLagan (born on 12 May, 1945, in Hounslow, Middlesex) is an English keyboards player, best known as a member of Small Faces in the 1960s, and Faces in the 1970s.Instrument = Keyboards | Genre = Rock 'n' Roll<br>Rhythm and Blues<br>Hard Rock<br>Blues Rock | Occupation = | Associated_acts = Small Faces<br>Faces<br>The Rolling Stones<br>;Bump Band<br>Billy Bragg and the Blokes }} Since then he has been in demand as a session musician and also leads his own Bump Band, …
- David Nabarro
Dr. David Nabarro (born in 1949), works as the Senior UN System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza at United Nations Headquarters in New York. He has been seconded to this position from the World Health Organization until the end of September 2007. Son of Sir John David Nunes Nabarro, he attended Oundle School leaving in the summer of 1966. In a gap year between school and university, Nabarro was a Community Service Volunteer.
- 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.
- Jack Robinson
Jack Robinson, born january 17, 1938 in Seattle, Washington, is a songwriter and a music publisher. His father, Bert, was English, his mother, Rena, Canadian. Jack grew up in a musical family : His father was an amateur violinist, his mother a professional singer. Jack's three uncles and his aunt were professional musicians. But Jack wasn't interested. He studied journalism and American literature at the University of Washington.
- John Cavanagh
John Cavanagh has been the Director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC since 1998 and is a founding fellow of the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam. Formerly an economist with UNCTAD and the WHO, he is the TNI Board of Trustee Chair and sits on the executive committees of the US-based Alliance for Responsible Trade and the Citizens' Trade Campaign. Cavanagh helped establish the International Forum on Globalisation in 1995, …
- Tom Lodge
Tom Lodge (born 1936) is an English author and radio broadcaster. Lodge was a key figure in the British radio revolution of the 1960's. He was a disk jockey on the first offshore pirate radio station Radio Caroline. Radio Caroline and the other pirates forced the UK government to deregulate radio broadcasting in the UK, which hitherto was a monopoly of the BBC.
- Richard Feachem
Sir Richard George Andrew Feachem, KBE, FREng was born in Manchester, UK in 1947. He took up his position as the first Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, in July 2002. Feachem is Professor of International Health at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, …
- June Clark
Dame June Clark, DBE, PhD, RN, RHV, FRCN is a Professor of Community Nursing, at the University of Wales, Swansea in Wales, UK. Dr. Clark is responsible for the development of a program of research in community health nursing and primary health care at the University of Wales, Swansea. Her special interest is the development and use of standardized nomenclatures to describe nursing practice, in particular in primary health care.
- 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
- Kristin Harmel
Kristin Harmel (born May 4, 1979) is an American journalist and novelist. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, Harmel gained her first writing experience at the age of 16 as a sports reporter for the "St. Petersburg Times", which ranks as one of the nation's top 10 newspapers, and "Tampa Bay AllSports" magazine while still attending Northeast High School in St. Petersburg, Florida.
- Kit Lambert
Christopher "Kit" Sebastian Lambert (11 May, 1935 - 7 April, 1981) was a record producer and the manager for The Who. He was born in 1935, the son of noted composer, Constant Lambert. Constant Lambert was the son of George Washington Lambert a sculptor and painter who was an official war artist for the Australian government at Gallipolli during WW1. Lambert served in the British Army after studying at Oxford University.
- Victoria Hale
Dr. Victoria Hale founded The Institute for OneWorld Health in San Francisco, California in 2000. Dr. Hale earned her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Biopharmaceutical Sciences at UCSF, and an advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO). Her past affiliations include the US Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and Genentech.
- Al McCoy
Al McCoy, "The Voice Of The Suns", has been the radio broadcast announcer of Phoenix Suns NBA basketball games since 1972, nearly the entire length of the team's existence. In all that time he has missed only one game due to illness, (December 31, 2005 at the Chicago Bulls). He is a resident of Arizona but a native of Iowa. McCoy is a graduate of Drake University and is a frequent guest on "Two Guys Named Jim," a sports-talk show on WHO (AM) in Des Moines.
- Leon David
Leon David was an alleged assassin of Malcolm X, but was never convicted of this crime. A member of the Nation of Islam, he lives in New Jersey. Talmadge Hayer, who had been convicted in the murder of Malcolm X and sentenced to life in prison, signed two affidavits that his charged conspirators were innocent and the David was one of the real assassins. See Hayer affidavits.
- Hiroshi Nakajima
was born in Chiba, Japan, on 16 May 1928. Dr Nakajima joined WHO in 1974 in the position of Scientist, Drug Evaluation and Monitoring. In 1976, he became Chief of the WHO Drug Policies and Management Unit. It was in this position that he played a key role in developing the concept of essential drugs, as Secretary of the first Expert Committee on the subject. In 1978, the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific nominated and elected Dr Nakajima as Regional Director, …
- Denis O'Regan
Denis O'Regan (born November 11th 1953) is a renowned photographer of rock and pop musicians. Although his imagery is particularly associated with the Punk movement, Queen, David Bowie, and Duran Duran, O'Regan has photographed everyone from AC/DC to ZZ Top, documenting Punk, New Romanticism, Grunge, and Heavy Metal along the way. O'Regan has undertaken many European, US, and World tours, worked as official photographer at Live Aid and the Concert For Diana, …
- Blair McDonough
Blair McDonough (born 30 April 1981, in Sydney, Australia) is an actor who is best known for playing the role of Stuart Parker in the Australian TV soap opera "Neighbours". McDonough shot to fame in 2001, when he finished runner-up in the inaugural season of the reality TV series "Big Brother Australia". McDonough spent much of his childhood living in Singapore, where his parents were working, …
- Eric Pringle
Eric Pringle (born in Morpeth, Northumberland, England) is a British writer for radio and television. He has also written three novels for children. He was one of the writers of the 1972 television series "Pretenders", and of the 1974 series "The Carnforth Practice". In 1975, he was commissioned by then-"Doctor Who" script editor Robert Holmes to pen a two-part serial entitled "The Angurth" for the programme's thirteenth season.
- Martin Springett
A Canadian illustrator, Martin Springett is mostly noted for his illustrations of Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry series. Springett grew up in England, and moved to Canada in his late teens - where he was employed as a gardener, hospital porter and drove a forklift, while pursuing his interests in guitar and music. In 1992, Springett was awarded a 1992 Aurora Award for Artistic Achievement, …
- Jim Walden
Jim Walden (born ca. 1938 in Aberdeen, Mississippi) was the head football coach at Washington State University from 1978 to 1986. During his tenure there, he compiled a 44-52-4 record. At Washington State, he coached the 1981 team to the school's first bowl appearance in 51 years. At one point he had also won three of the last five Apple Cups against the University of Washington. In 1981, he also earned the title of Pac Ten Coach of the Year.
- Margaret Catley-Carlson
Margaret Catley-Carlson is Chair, Director or advisor to many international organizations: The Global Water Partnership (Chair), The Water Resources Advisory Committee for Suez: Paris (Chair), the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa (Vice-Chair), Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International in the UK (Chair, Board of Governors).
- Amar Gupta
Amar Gupta (b. 1953) was born in Nadiad, India. Gupta was admitted to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology, Kanpur to study electrical engineering, graduating in 1974. Gupta started his career working making 8 dollars a week working for IBM, and then served in various technical advisory roles for the Government of India.He received the Rotary Fellowship for International Understanding.
- Marcos Espinal
Marcos Espinal , Executive Secretary, Stop TB Partnership Secretariat Marcos Espinal is the Executive Secretary of the Global Partnership to Stop TB. He joined WHO in 1997 to lead the WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Drug Resistance Surveillance and the building of a strategy to manage MDR-TB in resource-limited countries. From 2000 he managed the DOTS-Plus initiative for the management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, including the Green Light Committee.
- Eric Saward
Eric Saward (pronounced SAY-ward) was born in December 1944 and became a script writer and script editor for the BBC, resigning from the latter post on the TV programme "Doctor Who" in 1986. His career as a script writer began with drama for radio while he was working as a teacher. Later he was able to cross into full-time writing.
- Ed Podolak
Edward Joseph Podolak (born September 1, 1947, in Atlantic, Iowa) is a former professional American football player. He played quarterback and halfback at the University of Iowa before being selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the second round of the 1969 NFL draft. During a nine-year career from 1969 to 1977, Podolak became the Chiefs' second all-time leading rusher with 4,451 yards and 34 touchdowns on 1,158 carries.
- Hayley Sanderson
Hayley Sanderson is a London-based singer who rose to fame with the release of her debut single "Something in the Air". The song was originally a #1 hit in the summer of 1969 for Thunderclap Newman, written by the band's drummer and vocalist Speedy Keen and produced by Who guitarist Pete Townshend. The song had been chosen by British telecommunications company TalkTalk to advertise free broadband on television.
- Chris Townson
Chris Townson (born July 24, 1947, Leatherhead, Surrey) is a musician. He is the only drummer ever to replace Keith Moon on a Who tour while Moon was still alive. Townson also played with Marc Bolan in John's Children. In the 1970s, he was a member of the bands Jook and Jet.
- Manuel Elkin Patarroyo
Manuel Elkin Patarroyo (born November 3, 1947) is a Colombian pathologist who developed the world's first synthetic vaccine for malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitos that affects millions of people in the Third World every year. The vaccine was evaluated in clinical trials carried out by the WHO in Gambia, Tanzania and Thailand, and had mixed results.
- Kassi Manlan
Dr. Kassi Manlan was a WHO representative who was assassinated in Burundi in 2001.
- 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, …
- A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar
Arcot Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar (1887 - 1974) was an Indian educationist and physician with notable international and academic roles. One of twin brothers, he served 27 years as Vice-Chancellor of Madras University. He was Deputy Leader of the Indian delegation to the First World Health Assembly in Geneva in 1948. He was elected Chairman of the WHO Executive Board in 1949 and 1950, …
- Oliver Elmes
Oliver Elmes is a British graphic designer. He designed a number of logos for the BBC, but is probably best known for devising the "Doctor Who" title sequence and logo used from "Time and the Rani" (1987) until "Survival" (1989). "Doctor Who" producer John Nathan-Turner commissioned Elmes to design a new opening for the show after star Colin Baker announced his departure.
- Mare Teichmann
Mare Teichmann (born on March 1, 1954 in Tallinn, Estonia) is an Estonian psychologist and academic. Teichmann, who holds a PhD in Psychology from the Behterev Institute Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Tallinn University of Technology. A member of many boards and councils, especially in the academic self-administration of her special area of Work and Organizational Psychology, …
- Diltor Opromolla
Diltor Vladimir Araújo Opromolla was a Brazilian physician and dermatologist internationally respected due to his lifetime work with leprosy patients and leprosy research. Dr. Opromolla performed all his work at Lauro de Souza Lima Institute in Bauru, São Paulo, a WHO reference hospital for dermatology. He taught dermatology and leprosy to countless doctors, nurses, and other health workers.
- Seneka Bibile
Senaka Bibile was a Sri Lankan pharmacologist. He was the founder of Sri Lanka’s drug policy, which was used as a model for development of policies based on rational pharmaceutical use in other countries as well by the WHO,UNCTAD and the Non Aligned Movement. Due to the far reaching effects of his proposals and policies, he has been called the 'greatest medical benefactor of humanity that Sri Lanka has hitherto produced'.
- Prasert Thongcharoen
Emeritus Professor Dr.Prasert Thongcharoen (ศาสตราจารย์เกียรติคุณ นายแพทย์ ประิเสริฐ ทองเจริญ) M.D. (born 2 January 1933) - is a well-known Thai virologist, specialised in the fields of SARS, HIV, Bird Flu and many other diseases. Graduated from Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg and the world-renowned University of Hamburg with First Class Honour, …
- František Patočka
František Patočka was a Czech microbiologist and serologist. He established the study of virology in Czechoslovakia. Patočka studied medicine (specialised in microbiology) at the Charles University in Prague (finished in 1928). In 1936 he became head of the Czech Bacteriological Institute (after Ivan Honl). During the 1960s he worked as an expert for the WHO in India and Zaire. His brother Jan Patočka was a well known Czech philosopher.
- Scholarship Of Hakim Said
Hakim Mohammed Said wrote or compiled about 200 books. These include books on Religion, Tibb, Health & Sciences, books on Literary, Social and Scientific topics and Travelogues. Hakim Mohammed Said also created two very widely attended national forums: Hamdard Shura (for leaders of public opinion) and Naunehal Assembly (for children).