2023-04-17 16:03:53
A Frenchman joins the management of the World Health Organization (WHO). The Director General of Health, Professor Jérôme Salomon, joined the management team of the UN agency in Geneva on Monday, which announced several other appointments.
In a press release, the WHO specifies that this professor of medicine, who had become a familiar figure to the French during the Covid-19 health crisis, holds the position of Assistant Director-General for Universal Health Coverage and Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases. transmissible. In this role, he will oversee a broad portfolio of technical programs covering, among others, HIV, sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, malaria, mental health issues, as well as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer.
Briton appointed chief scientist
Dr Salomon, who holds a doctorate in epidemiology, was already a member of the WHO executive board before his appointment and has “extensive experience in the management of health systems, communicable diseases and international public health”, indicates the organization. The WHO appointed a total of five new personalities to the management team at its headquarters in Geneva on Monday, some of whom had already been announced a few months ago. These appointments follow the reappointment last year of Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as head of the WHO.
Dr Jeremy Farrar, who headed Britain’s Wellcome Trust research foundation, will become the organization’s chief scientist from May 8. In his position, says the WHO, this clinician-researcher will bring together the best brains from around the world in the fields of science and innovation “to design and implement quality health policies and services”.
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