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  • Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab has been Acting Regional Director for the Western Pacific since March 2023, after a period as Officer-in-Charge of the Western Pacific since August 2022. Dr Jakab will serve as Acting Regional Director until a new Regional Director takes office on 1 February 2024. The new Regional Director will be nominated by the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in October 2023 and appointed by the WHO Executive Board in January 2024. Dr Jakab has served as WHO Deputy Director-General since 2019 after serving as WHO Regional Director for Europe from 2010-2019.  She has held a number of high-profile national and international public health policy positions in the last 3 decades, including as the founding Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Stockholm, Sweden. Between 2005 and 2010, Dr Jakab built the centre into an internationally respected centre of excellence in the fight against infectious diseases. Note: Title reflects the respective position of the subject at the time the photo was taken.Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab has been Acting Regional Director for the Western Pacific since March 2023, after a period as Officer-in-Charge of the Western Pacific since August 2022. Dr Jakab will serve as Acting Regional Director until a new Regional Director takes office on 1 February 2024. The new Regional Director will be nominated by the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in October 2023 and appointed by the WHO Executive Board in January 2024. Dr Jakab has served as WHO Deputy Director-General since 2019 after serving as WHO Regional Director for Europe from 2010-2019.  She has held a number of high-profile national and international public health policy positions in the last 3 decades, including as the founding Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Stockholm, Sweden. Between 2005 and 2010, Dr Jakab built the centre into an internationally respected centre of excellence in the fight against infectious diseases. Note: Title reflects the respective position of the subject at the time the photo was taken.
  • Dr Takeshi Kasai began his term as WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific on 1 February 2019, following his nomination by the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific and his appointment by the WHO Executive Board. The public health career of Dr Kasai began nearly 30 years ago when he was assigned to a remote post on the northeast coast of Japan, providing health-care services for the elderly. His early experiences there impressed upon him value of building strong health systems from the ground up. In the mid-1990s, Dr Kasai attended the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where he studied in the Department of Global Health and Development and received a master’s degree in public health. Dr Kasai has worked for WHO for more than 15 years, and at the time of his nomination was Director of Programme Management, the No. 2 position at the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific in Manila, Philippines. As a Technical Officer and later as the Director of the Division of Health Security at the Regional Office, he was instrumental in developing and implementing the Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases and Public Health Emergencies, which guides Member States in preparing for and responding to public health emergencies. Dr Kasai also served as the WHO Representative in Viet Nam from 2012 to 2014, and in 2014 received the For the People’s Health Medal from the Government, the top honor bestowed upon those who have made significant contributions to public health. Note: Title reflects the respective position of the subject at the time the photo was taken.Dr Takeshi Kasai began his term as WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific on 1 February 2019, following his nomination by the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific and his appointment by the WHO Executive Board. The public health career of Dr Kasai began nearly 30 years ago when he was assigned to a remote post on the northeast coast of Japan, providing health-care services for the elderly. His early experiences there impressed upon him value of building strong health systems from the ground up. In the mid-1990s, Dr Kasai attended the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where he studied in the Department of Global Health and Development and received a master’s degree in public health. Dr Kasai has worked for WHO for more than 15 years, and at the time of his nomination was Director of Programme Management, the No. 2 position at the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific in Manila, Philippines. As a Technical Officer and later as the Director of the Division of Health Security at the Regional Office, he was instrumental in developing and implementing the Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases and Public Health Emergencies, which guides Member States in preparing for and responding to public health emergencies. Dr Kasai also served as the WHO Representative in Viet Nam from 2012 to 2014, and in 2014 received the For the People’s Health Medal from the Government, the top honor bestowed upon those who have made significant contributions to public health. Note: Title reflects the respective position of the subject at the time the photo was taken.
  • Dr Shin Young-soo took up the position of the World Health Organization’s Regional Director for the Western Pacific on 1 February 2009.  He was nominated for the position at the fifty-ninth session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in September 2008 and confirmed by the Organization’s 124th session of the Executive Board in Geneva in January 2009. Dr Shin is the first Regional Director for the Western Pacific to be appointed from outside WHO. He was nominated for a second five-year term at the sixty-fourth session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in October 2013 and confirmed by the Organization’s 134th session of the Executive Board in Geneva in January 2014. Note: Title reflects the respective position of the subject at the time the photo was taken.Dr Shin Young-soo took up the position of the World Health Organization’s Regional Director for the Western Pacific on 1 February 2009.  He was nominated for the position at the fifty-ninth session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in September 2008 and confirmed by the Organization’s 124th session of the Executive Board in Geneva in January 2009. Dr Shin is the first Regional Director for the Western Pacific to be appointed from outside WHO. He was nominated for a second five-year term at the sixty-fourth session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in October 2013 and confirmed by the Organization’s 134th session of the Executive Board in Geneva in January 2014. Note: Title reflects the respective position of the subject at the time the photo was taken.

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