Margaret Chan (left), General Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Bruce Aylward, Executive Director of WHO and Health Emergencies Director-General's Special Representative for the ...

LONDON — Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, traveled to Guinea earlier this month to join the country’s president in celebrating the world’s first Ebola ...

Ebola was the Hurricane Katrina for the World Health Organization — its moment ... and philanthropic organizations WHO director Margaret Chan recently admitted her agency was unprepared for ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global flu pandemic ... Japan and Chile. WHO chief Dr Margaret Chan said the move did not mean the virus was causing more severe illness or more ...

Breaking norms, the World Health Organization chooses Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a non-MD from Africa, as its new director-general. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food ...

A new SARS-like virus recently found in humans is “a threat to the entire world,” according to the director-general of the United Nations’ World Health ... Margaret Chan said Monday in ...

In January 2007, when I began my decade of work as the World Health Organization’s director-general, I took these lessons with me. I knew I would need to get the governments of 194 countries on ...

World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan voiced deep concern about the increase worldwide of childhood obesity, with numbers climbing fastest in developing countries.

World Health Organization ... change to public health security. "Just as health and wellbeing was seen as a defining aspect of peace and security," notes Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General ...