Public Forum for Candidates for the World Health Organization Director General 1/19/2003
Geneva International Conference Centre, CICG, International Conference Centre
Candidates for the top post in world health - the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) - participate in a two-hour, worldwide question and answer session open to the public and linked across the world via video and teleconferencing.
The eight candidates for the position, in alphabetical order, include: (1) Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Health Minister of Senegal. She is a medical professor and former policy director at UNAIDS; (2) Julio Frenk, Health Minister of Mexico and a public health expert. He was centrally involved in developing a tool for measuring the global burden of disease. (3) Karam Karam a former Health Minister of Lebanon. (4) Jong Wook Lee, a doctor from South Korea, head of WHO's programme to stop tuberculosis. (5) Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi, Prime Minister of Mozambique and formerly his country's Minister of Health. (6) Peter Piot, head of UNAIDS, a Belgian epidemiologist and microbiologist who originally made his name as one of the doctors who helped isolate the Ebola virus. (7) Ismail Sallam, a professor of cardiac surgery who was until recently Egypt's Minster of Health and Population. (8) Joseph Williams is a medical doctor and parliamentarian and formerly was Prime Minister of the Cook Islands.
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NOTE: Any questions or comments that were not addressed and read out at the debate itself will be presented to the candidate chosen by the Executive Board the following week and he / she will be asked to respond to them prior to the World Health Assembly in May. The answers to these will then be posted online at www.ihn.info for discussion with all.
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