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SENIOR APPOINTMENTS AT WHO Three senior positions have recently been filled in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) headquarters as Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, WHO Director-General, appointed Mrs Ann Kern, formerly Executive Director in charge of General Management, as Executive Director, Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments. Dr Tomris Türmen, formerly a senior policy adviser to the Director-General, has been appointed to the post of Executive Director, Family and Community Health. Another former senior policy adviser, Dr Anarfi Asamoa-Baah was appointed Executive Director in charge of External Relations and Governing Bodies. Mrs Ann Kern brings to her new post more than 30 years of experience in health and welfare research, policy, planning, academia and health services management. For 20 years she worked in the Australian Public Service before joining WHO in 1987. In her current position she is responsible for all aspects of environmental health including the International Programme on Chemical Safety, WHO emergency and humanitarian relief operations, nutrition and the Department of Health in Sustainable Development. Dr Tomris Türmen has a distinguished career in reproductive, child and women’s health and health system development. She has held senior posts in government (Turkey), academia and WHO. "As senior policy adviser in my office over the last two years she has helped to link science, public health and policy, thus taking forward the new WHO corporate strategy", commented Dr Brundtland. In her new position, Dr Türmen will be responsible for child and adolescent health, women’s and reproductive health as well as HIV/AIDS and unsafe pregnancy. A public health physician, health policy analyst and health planner by training, Dr Asamoa-Baah was Director-General of Health Services in Ghana and a key player in health sector reforms in his country. He was instrumental in the development of close partnerships between the public and private health sectors as well as between the national government and external partners. His new job puts him in charge of WHO’s external relations including day-to-day dealings with its 191 Member States, resource mobilization and WHO’s governing bodies, namely the Executive Board and World Health Assembly. For further information, journalists can contact Office of the Spokesperson, WHO, Geneva. Telephone (+41 22) 791 25 99. Fax (+41 22) 791 4858. Email : inf@who.int All WHO Press Releases, Fact Sheets and Features as well as other information on this subject can be obtained on Internet on the WHO home page http://www.who.int/ |
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