NEW DELHI, Nov 1 — The World Health Organisation today selected the daughter of Bangladesh’s prime minister to be its South-East Asia director, a month after she rejected...
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“I look forward to building a healthier South-East Asia,” Wazed posted on X, formerly Twitter, after being selected for the post heading an 11-nation region home to a quarter of the world’s population.The job is key to driving policy-making, with respected medical journal The Lancet saying the post was “among the most important roles in global health, especially in times of crisis”.
She beat Nepal’s Shambhu Acharya, 65, a professor of global health at the University of Washington with over three decades of experience working in senior WHO roles, in a secret ballot on Wednesday.
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