Oral History
In 2005, a project was designed to gather the testimonies of distinguished former staff members in order to build up WHO's collective memory and make these historic resources available to researchers.
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People interviewed
List of people interviewed with extracts from their stories.
The main goals of the project are:
- to document historic experience which tends to be overlooked by written sources
- to show past experience and views in a different light
- to bring people back into the present, while preserving their personality and the sound of their voice
- to gather spontaneous and informal impressions.
The result of these interviews includes different elements, which are then included in the WHO archives:
- a biography of the interviewee
- the sound document from the interview
- a written transcript of the interview
- a few photographs of the person