Sep 21, 2006 12:00 AM

Who should head WHO?

This is old but worth watching: The World Health Organization is in the process of electing a new director general. From Canada.com: The search for a new director general was necessitated by the sudden death last May of Dr. Lee Jong-wook, a South Korean who had been leading the WHO for three years. The full […]

This is old but worth watching: The World Health Organization is in the process of electing a new director general. From Canada.com:

The search for a new director general was necessitated by the sudden death last May of Dr. Lee Jong-wook, a South Korean who had been leading the WHO for three years.

The full list of candidates is: Dr. Kazem Behbehani (Kuwait); Dr. Margaret Chan (China); Dr. Julio Frenk (Mexico); David Gunnarsson (Iceland); Dr. Nay Htun (Myanmar); Dr. Karam Karam (Syria); Dr. Bernard Kouchner (France); Dr. Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi (Mozambique); Dr. Shigeru Omi (Japan); Dr. Alfredo Palacio (Ecuador); Pekka Puska (proposed by Finland); Elena Salgado (Spain) and Dr. Tomris Turmen (Turkey).

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