- John D'Amico
John David D'Amico (September 21, 1937-May 29, 2005) was a National Hockey League (NHL) linesman and later supervisor of officials. A native of Toronto, Ontario, D'Amico's NHL career started as a referee on October 12, 1964, when he was 28-years-old. He would only referee 19 games before becoming a linesman. He retired in 1987 as the last Original Six official. D'Amico's career included 1,689 regular season games and 247 Stanley Cup playoff games.
- Ann Veneman
Ann M. Veneman is first UNICEF Executive Director to visit Swaziland © UNICEF/HQ05-0695/Nesbitt UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman joins children at the Dvumbe Primary School, south-east of Mbabane, Swaziland.
- Kindra Ravenmoon Official!
I am originally from Montreal Quebec Canada,have lived in places such as Düssel Dorf Germany,London England and a short while in Los Angelas California.Now I am perminately here in Sweden.
- 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.
- Herbert Ley Jr.
Herbert L. Ley Jr., M.D. (September 7 1923—July 22 2001) was an American physician and government official. He attended Harvard College from 1941-1943, and returned there after World War II, where he received his M.D. degree, "cum laude", in 1946. In 1951, he earned an Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. From 1951 until 1958, he worked with the Army Medical Service Graduate School in rickettsial disease research, …
- Bernard Kouchner
Bernard Kouchner is a French politician, diplomat, and doctor. He is co-founder of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Doctors of the World. He is currently the French minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the Fillon government.
- Peter Piot
Dr. Peter Piot is Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN specialized agency UNAIDS. In 2004, he was awarded the Vlerick Award. "From UNAIDS.org Bio:" <blockquote> Executive Director of UNAIDS since its creation in 1995 and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, …
- 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.
- 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, …
- Dick Heyward
Dick Heyward was a deputy executive director of UNICEF between 1949 and 1981. During that time, he was responsible for developing many of UNICEF's policies for children and served under three executive directors. E.J.R. Dick Heyward was born in Tasmania in 1914. He grew up on his family's apple farm and studied at the London School of Economics. He served as first secretary to the Australian Mission between 1947 and 1949.
- Elizabeth Mataka
Elizabeth Mataka is the United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, as appointed on May 21, 2007 by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, replacing Stephen Lewis. Mataka is a national of Botswana and a resident of Zambia.
- Sylvie Roy
Sylvie Roy, is the Action démocratique du Québec Member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of Lotbinière. She was awarded a Law Degree from Université Laval in 1987 and admitted to the Barreau du Québec in 1988. She was lawyer for 15 years including 12 years for mental health organizations in Mauricie. She served as Mayor of Saint-Sophie-de-Lévrard from 1999 to 2003. She also worked for the Bécancour Regional County Municipality, …
- Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president, older only than Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and as he was born in the period after World War II, is known as the first Baby Boomer president.
- York Chow
York Chow Yat Ngok is the Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food of Hong Kong. He is a member of the Executive Council. He was appointed to his current position in 2004. Chow is an orthopaedic surgeon by profession. He was appointed Hospital Chief Executive of Queen Mary Hospital in 2001. Chow was appointed a Vice-President of the International Paralympic Committee in 1997. During his studies in The University of Hong Kong since 1967, he stayed in St.
- Yeoh Eng-Kiong
Yeoh Eng Kiong (born 1946) was Secretary for Health and Welfare of Hong Kong between 1999 and 2002, and Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food and member of the Executive Council between 2002 to 2004.
- 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.
- Saida Agrebi
Saida Agrebi (b. January 22, 1945 in Tunisia) is a member of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council of the African Union, representing North Africa. She also sits on the Pan-African Parliament representing Tunisia. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Masters Degree in Public Health. As a student she served as an instructor on reproductive and family health in hospitals in California and Maryland, …
- 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), …
- 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, …
- 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.
- Dominic Grieve
Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve (born May 24, 1956) British politician and barrister. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield and is the shadow Attorney General and one of the shadow Home Affairs spokesmen. He also has responsibility for community cohesion on behalf of the Conservative Party. Grieve was born in London, the son of Percy Grieve QC, the (MP for Solihull 1964-1983). He was educated at the French Lycee, Colet Court, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Pascoal Mocumbi
Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi was the Prime Minister of Mozambique from 1994 until 2004. His traditional name was Mahykete. He is the son of Manuel Mocumbi Malume, deceased, and Leta Alson Cuhle. He began his studies at the Missão de Mocumbi, Inharrime district, Inhambane province, where he completed primary school, in 1952. He attended secondary school at the Liceu Salazar, in Maputo, between 1953 and 1960.
- 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, …
- 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, …
- Dave Lauriski
Dave D. Lauriski was the United States Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health, the head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001 and he resigned in November 2004. Before he joined government, Lauriski ran his own consulting firm in Price, Utah. He was previously General Manager of Energy West Mining Company, and earlier, Director of Health, Safety, …
- John Scott
John Scott was General Manager Health Services of Queensland Health, prior to his removal from the office by Uschi Schreiber on her taking over of Queensland Health. Scott had allegedly contradicted former Health Minister Gordon Nuttall at a budget estimates hearing on July 8 2006
- Abram Games
Abram Games, British graphic designer. Born Abraham Gamse, he was the son of immigrants: a Latvian photographer and a Russo-Polish seamstress. He anglicized his name to Games at age 12 and was essentially an autodidactic designer, having attended London's St. Martins School of Art (today the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design) for only two terms. However, while working as a "studio boy" in commercial design firm Askew-Young in London 1932-36, …
- Colin Hansen
Colin Hansen (born 1952) is British Columbia's Minister of Economic Development, and Minister Responsible for the Asia-Pacific Initiative and the 2010 Winter Olympics. Born on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Hansen was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia during the general election of 1996 and re-elected in the general elections of 2001 and 2005. He represents the electoral district of Vancouver-Quilchena.
- 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.
- 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.
- Helder Francisco Malauene
Helder Francisco Malauene is a Mozambican politician. He is a member of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council of the African Union and is also Chairman of the Social Affairs and Health Committee.
- 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.
- 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.
- Carol Bellamy
Carol Bellamy, president and CEO of World Learning, will deliver the commencement address at Vermont Law School’s 31st commencement ceremony. The public is invited to attend the ceremony, which will begin at 10:30 AM on the South Royalton town green. Bellamy also serves as president of the School for International Training.
- Jeffrey Sachs
Mr. Sachs has advised governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa on economic reforms - and has worked with international agencies to promote poverty reduction, disease control and debt reduction of poor countries. Prior to joining Columbia, Mr. Sachs spent over 20 years at Harvard University, most recently as Director of the Center for International Development. He is the author of many scholarly articles and books.
- Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger
Arnold clearly harbored political ambitions for a long time. In 1977, six years before he became a US citizen, he told a German magazine: "When one has money, one day it becomes less interesting. And when one is also the best in film, what can be more interesting? Perhaps power. Then one moves into politics and becomes governor or president or something." He realized that one day his movie-making days were numbered and began thinking about a career in politics.
- 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.
- Dr Nathan Maclyn Thielman MD
Nathan Thielman , MD, MPH Duke University Medical Center Dr. Thielman is associate professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health and medical director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic at Duke. A graduate of Wheaton College, Dr. Thielman completed both medical school and internal medicine residency training at Duke.