Ethiopian candidate for top WHO job gets full backing from Africa Ethiopia’s Foreign Affairs minister Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Ethiopia’s Foreign Affairs minister Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has received strong backing from African countries to head the World Health Organisation (WHO), whose elections are due next month. At the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland from May 21-31, member states will vote in a new director-general for the UN’s leading health agency, who will take office on July 1. Tedros, 51, outlined to The New Times that his five priorities for the organisation namely: universal health coverage; health emergency preparedness;…

L’OMS aux Africains. Ils étaient cinq principaux prétendants sur la ligne de départ : la Pakistanaise Sania Nishtar, l’Italienne Flavia Bustreo, le Français Philippe Douste-Blazy, le Britannique David Nabarro et l’Éthiopien Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Fin janvier, à l’issue d’une séance particulièrement longue, le comité exécutif de l’OMS a sélectionné les trois derniers finalistes, Nabarro (18 voix), Nishtar (28 voix) et Adhanom (30 voix). Nous avons rencontré et interviewé ce dernier en octobre 2016, puis fin mars. Il nous paraît, pour de multiples raisons, être l’homme de la situation, compte tenu de son expérience – il a été, entre autres, ministre…

Afrique: OMS – Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus rassure les Pays Francophones Le candidat de l’Union Africaine pour le poste de Directeur Général de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS), l’Ethiopien Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus continue sa course de plus belle, en tête du peleton. Arrivé premier lors de la présélection qui a ramené les candidats de six à trois pour le scrutin final du mois de mai 2017 suite à la Réunion du Conseil Exécutif du 25 janvier 2017, l’Ethiopien précise qu’il est bien le candidat de toute l’Afrique, par-delà les aires linguistiques du continent. Officiellement présenté par le Gouvernement…

Opinion: Who should lead WHO? The choice seen from their track record, achievements and their vision for the World Health Organisation over the next decade. And against those benchmarks, there is a clear winner, at least from my perspective. Dr Tedros stands out as the most promising candidate to lead the World Health Organisation at this crucial time – with ever-increasing population, political, epidemiological and environmental challenges. My top three reasons reflect the facts that: He has spearheaded the health sector reform in his country and providing exemplary leadership over the past decade; He has galvanised bilateral and multi-sectoral partnerships…

Health needs to be looked at as a rights issue, says front-runner for post of WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus talks about how developing countries can build robust healthcare systems and how the World Health Organisation should revamp funding. #WHODG This May, the World Health Organisation will get a new director general, after Dr Maragaret Chan resigns from the post. Among the top three contenders for the post is Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is currently special advisor to the prime minister of Ethiopia. He was the country’s health minister for seven years, from 2005 to 2012. He has…