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Dr. Lee Jong-Wook
Director-General
World Health Organization (WHO)
www.who.int
Dr. Lee-Jong Wook is currently Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr. Lee has worked for 20 years in technical, managerial and policy positions at all levels of the WHO-country, region and headquarters. He has been a world leader in the fight against two of the greatest challenges to international health and development-tuberculosis and vaccine preventable diseases of children. Under his directorship, The Global Partnership to Stop TB has become internationally recognized as one of the most successful and dynamic global public-private partnerships.
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Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford
Professor, Wagner School
www.nyu.edu/wagner
Clinical Professor, New York University Medical School
www.med.nyu.edu
Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford is currently Professor of Public Service, Health Policy and Management at the Wagner School, and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at New York University Medical School. She served as Dean of the Wagner School from June 1997 thru November 2002. Prior to coming to Wagner, Dr. Boufford served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Boufford served as President of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), the largest municipal hospital system in the United States, from December 1985 until October 1989.
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Dr. Lola Dare
Executive Secretary, ACOSHED
www.acoshed.net
CEO, CHESTRAD International
Dr. Lola Dare is a founding member and currently executive secretary of the African Council for Sustainable Health Development (ACOSHED), a unique partnership between governments, civil society and development partners. Working with the tools of advocacy, information dissemination and operations research, ACOSHED works through country chapters to hold governments to their commitments to health and sustainable development. Dr. Dare is also chief executive officer for the Center for Health Sciences Training and Research and Development (CHESTRAD), and has been involved in research design, implementation and evaluation in the field of reproductive health.
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