2023-04-17 14:54:15
The French director general of health, Jérôme Salomon, joins the management team of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on Monday, April 17, announced the UN agency, which announced several other appointments.
In a press release, the WHO specifies that this professor of medicine, who had become a familiar figure to the French during the Covid-19 health crisis, will occupy the position of Deputy Director General for Universal Health Coverage and Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases. transmissible. In this role, he will oversee a broad portfolio of technical programs covering, among others, HIV, sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, malaria, mental health issues as well as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer.
Armed arm of the Ministry of Health in the management of the Covid-19 epidemic, Jérôme Salomon knows the mysteries of the French health system well. Adviser to former minister Marisol Touraine, between 2013 and 2015, this infectious disease specialist was then adviser to Emmanuel Macron during the presidential campaign.
Jérôme Salomon, who holds a doctorate in epidemiology, was already a member of the WHO executive board before his appointment and has “extensive experience in the management of health systems, communicable diseases and international public health”explains the organization.
Five new personalities named
The WHO appointed a total of five new personalities to the management team of its headquarters in Geneva on Monday, some of whom had already been announced a few months ago. These appointments follow the reappointment last year of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as head of the WHO.
Jeremy Farrar, who headed Britain’s Wellcome Trust research foundation, will become the organization’s chief scientist from May 8. In his position, explains the WHO, this clinician researcher will bring together the best brains from around the world in the fields of science and innovation. “to design and implement quality health policies and services”. Prior to joining the Wellcome Trust in 2013, he headed the Clinical Research Unit at the Tropical Diseases Hospital in Vietnam for seventeen years, where his research focused on global health with a particular focus on emerging infectious diseases.
Razia Pendse, from the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, will become the Director General’s new Chief of Staff from May 4, replacing Catharina Boehme.
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