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  • The World Health Organisation on Wednesday raised its flu alert to phase five out of six
    The World Health Organisation on Wednesday raised its flu alert to ...
    Source: AFP
  • WHO director-general Margaret Chan
    WHO director-general Margaret Chan
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  • A negative-stained image of the swine flu virus
    A negative-stained image of the swine flu virus
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  • Health Secretary Andy Burnham has said the first batches were set to arrive in August
    Health Secretary Andy Burnham has said the first batches were set to ...
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  • Director General of the WHO, Margaret Chan, speaks in a televised address
    Director General of the WHO, Margaret Chan, speaks in a televised ...
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  • World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General Margaret Chan
    World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General Margaret Chan
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  • World Health OrganisationDirector General Margaret Chan
    World Health OrganisationDirector General Margaret Chan
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  • World Health Organisation Director-General Margaret Chan
    World Health Organisation Director-General Margaret Chan
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  • VIDEO: The WHO says vaccine development is proceeding on track. Originally filed on 210909. Duration: 01:16
    VIDEO: The WHO says vaccine development is proceeding on track. ...
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  • VIDEO: The WHO says vaccine development is proceeding on track. Originally filed on 210909. Duration: 01:16
    VIDEO: The WHO says vaccine development is proceeding on track. ...
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  • Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan receives a badge from Spanish Crown Prince Felipe during a reception for the 2009 Prince of Asturias Awards in Oviedo
    Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan ...
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  • Director-General of the WHO Margaret Chan accompanied by several members of the organization poses after news conference in Oviedo
    Director-General of the WHO Margaret Chan accompanied by several ...
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  • Director-General of WHO Margaret Chan attends a news conference in Oviedo
    Director-General of WHO Margaret Chan attends a news conference in ...
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  • Director-General of the World Health Organization Margaret Chan waves after arriving in Oviedo
    Director-General of the World Health Organization Margaret Chan waves ...
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  • Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan waves upon her arrival for the 2009 Prince of Asturias awards ceremony at Campoamor theatre in Oviedo
    Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan ...
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  • Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan receives the 2009 Prince of Asturias award for Arts from Spain's Crown Prince Felipe in Oviedo
    Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan ...
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  • Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan meets Cuba's Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer and Instituto Pedro Kouri Director Gustavo Kouri in Havana
    Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan ...
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  • Cuba's Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer talks to a doctor before a conference held by Director-General of the WHO Margaret Chan at Instituto Pedro Kouri in Havana
    Cuba's Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer talks to a doctor before a ...
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  • Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan addresses the audience during a lecture at Instituto Pedro Kouri in Havana
    Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan ...
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The World Health Organisation on Wednesday raised its flu alert to ...
Margaret Chan's Biography

Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, OBE JP (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), representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza and WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases (2003-2006).

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  • Glaxo study backs simultaneous flu jabs

    Geneva : Switzerland | 12 days ago

    The research – requested by regulators and keenly awaited by governments tackling the current H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic – should ease international concern about the provision of both vaccines ...

  • Traffic accidents are biggest killer of girls in rich countries

    Geneva : WA : USA | 13 days ago

    Traffic accidents are the biggest killer of adolescent girls in rich countries, the World Health Organisation said yesterday. In its report, Women and Health – the first global comparison of women's ...

  • Cuba swine flu 'from US tourists'

    Havana : Cuba | 22 days ago

    US President Barack Obama recently lifted restrictions on Cuban-Americans visiting relatives on the island. This is the the first time any Cuban official has found cause to complain about the US ...

  • WHO chief says Fidel Castro "looks wonderful"

    Havana : Cuba | 24 days ago

    Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro "looks wonderful," World Health Organization director general Margaret Chan said on Wednesday, after meeting the 83-year-old who resigned the presidency last year due ...

Margaret Chan News Stories

  • News Source: CNN | 10 days ago
    Societies fail women at key moments in their lives by not offering them quality health care, which undermines their ability to reach their full potential, the World Health Organization says in a new report. The report declares that women's health is
  • News Source: Xinhuanet.com | 11 days ago
    British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is to donate 50 million doses of A/H1N1 influenza vaccine to the World Health Organization (WHO) under an agreement signed in Geneva on Tuesday, the UN agency said.     "We welcome this very generous
  • News Source: All Africa | 12 days ago
    WHO Calls for Action Beyond the Health Sector 10 November 2009 Despite considerable progress in the past decades, societies continue to fail to meet the health care needs of women at key moments of their lives, particularly in their adolescent years

Margaret Chan Blogs

  • Blog Source: thetyee.ca | 9 days ago
    So we see the young Margaret Chan as Hong Kong's top health officer just as China took over and the first human H5N1 cases were breaking out. She had the courage to order the culling of every chicken, duck and goose in the Special ...
  • Blog Source: hygimia69.blogspot.com | 9 days ago
    GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is to donate 50 million doses of pandemic H1N1 vaccine to the World Health Organization (WHO) under an agreement signed at WHO headquarters in Geneva by the WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan, and the Chief ...
  • Blog Source: www.thenation.com | 9 days ago
    It's not my question -- it's the question raised by Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization which just finished up it first -- first? -- study of women's health. Their verdict? Societies are still failing ...

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