May 2017
Source: Statnews
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Photo: Unicef
Ethiopia’s former health minister has been elected to serve as the next director-general of the World Health Organization — the first African picked to lead the global health agency.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, 52, will succeed Dr. Margaret Chan on July 1.
Read in Manguinhos about the WHO:
Ballester, Rosa, Porras, María Isabel and Báguena, María José. Políticas sanitarias locales puestas a prueba: consultores, expertos, misiones internacionales y poliomielitis en España, 1950-1975. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2015, vol.22, no.3, p.925-940. ISSN 0104-5970
Bhattacharya, Sanjoy. Struggling to a monumental triumph: re-assessing the final phases of the smallpox eradication program in India, 1960-1980. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dec 2007, vol.14, no.4, p.1113-1129. ISSN 0104-5970
Manton, John. Global and local contexts: the Northern Ogoja Leprosy Scheme, Nigeria, 1945-1960. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2003, vol.10, suppl.1, p.209-223. ISSN 0104-5970
