E-DRUG: Dr Lee of Korea new DG of WHO?
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Geneva rumours say that Dr Jong-Wook Lee, MD, MPH (Republic of Korea), has
been selected by the Executive Board to succeed Dr Brundtland.
Dr. Lee is the first director of the Global Partnership to Stop TB and a
special representative of the director general of the World Health
Organization. Since his appointment in 2000, Dr. Lee has launched the
Global Drug Facility, an initiative to increase access to TB drugs.
Lee's career with WHO has spanned nearly 20 years beginning at the
county level as a leprosy consultant in Micronesia. In 1986, he moved to
the Western Pacific Regional Office in Manila, where he became the
regional adviser on chronic diseases. From 1990-1994, he headed up polio
eradication efforts in the Western Pacific, and then in 1994 was
appointed director of the WHO Global Programme for Vaccines and
Immunizations and executive secretary of the Children's Vaccine
Initiative.
In recognition of Lee's abilities and accomplishments, the director
general, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, appointed him senior policy adviser
in 1998, a position Lee held until being tapped to direct Stop TB. Lee
received his MD from Seoul National University, College of Medicine and
his MPH from the University of Hawaii, School of Public Health.
Click here to read Jong-Wook Lee's longer biography & vision.
http://www.globalhealth.org/WHO/Lee.pdf
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