Dr tedros adhanom ghebreyesus biography of michael
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Dr tedros adhanom ghebreyesus biography of michael
Meet the Black Doctor Fighting COVID-19 as the Director General of WHO
Meet Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the man who is currently taking the lead as Director General at WHO (World Health Organization).
Dr. Tedros is an Ethiopian health scholar and microbiologist with first-hand experience in research, operations, and leadership in emergency responses to epidemics.
He became Director General of WHO in July 2017, and is the first Black person to ever serve in this role.
He has formally served as both the Minister of Health and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Ethiopia.
Immediately after taking office at WHO, Dr. Tedros outlined five key priorities for the agency: universal health coverage; health emergencies; women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health; health impacts of climate and environmental change; and a transformed WHO.
When the coronavirus global pandemic began in December 2019, Dr.
Tedros and his team were the ones who named the virus COVID-1