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9789811655654: Elimination of Infectious Diseases from the South-east Asia Region: Keeping the Promise
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9811655650 ISBN 13 : 9789811655654
Editeur : Springer Verlag, Singapore, 2022

Synopsis

This book discusses the historical context, country experience, and best practices that led to eliminating infectious diseases from the WHO’s South-East Asia Region, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, trachoma, and mother-to-child HIV in the mid-twentieth and twenty-first century.  The UN Sustainable Development Goals (3.3) targets to end AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases by 2030. In this context, this book is of high significance to countries from the SEA region and around the globe. It helps create national strategies and action plans on infectious disease elimination and thus attaining SDG 3.3.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh was the first Indian elected Regional Director of WHO’s South-East Asia Region. She was also the first woman in the region to assume the office of WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia in February 2014. In September 2018, she was unanimously elected for a second five-year term by the 71st Regional Committee and 144th Session of the WHO Executive Board. Prior to Dr. Khetrapal Singh’s service as Regional Director of the WHO South-East Asia Region, for over two decades she was a civil servant in India as a member of the Indian Administrative Services (IAS). In 1987 she moved to the Health, Population and Nutrition Department of the World Bank and in 1998 she joined WHO headquarters, Geneva, as Executive Director, Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments Cluster, and became a member of the Director-General’s Cabinet.

Dr. Khetrapal Singh has devoted more than three decades to strengthening public health as a leader and manager at national and international levels. Dr. Khetrapal Singh has vast experience in developing evidence-based, scientifically sound policy in complex state, national and international health systems due to her work in low resourced health systems, leading large multi-sectoral teams and collaborating with global partners and public health leaders. Dr Singh has a PhD in Public Health and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), of the University of Edinburgh, UK.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

This book discusses the historical context, country experience, and best practices that led to eliminating infectious diseases from the WHO¿s South-East Asia Region, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, trachoma, and mother-to-child HIV in the mid-twentieth and twenty-first century. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (3.3) targets to end AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases by 2030. In this context, this book is of high significance to countries from the SEA region and around the globe. It helps create national strategies and action plans on infectious disease elimination and thus attaining SDG 3.3.

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Éditeur
Springer Verlag, Singapore
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9811655650
ISBN 13 
9789811655654
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
126
Éditeur
Singh Poonam Khetrapal
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