Dr Kidong Park

Dr Kidong Park is the Director of the Division Data, Strategy and Innovation in the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific.

Dr Park has more than 30 years of extensive experience in the broad are global public health. His international career in public health spans from technical work on communicable disease control, strategic planning and evaluation to a high- level leadership role at three level of WHO.  Before joining WHO in 2006,  Dr Park served his home country for more than 12 years at various position in the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Before joining the Government, Dr Park participated in a WHO-funded District Health System demonstration project in Yonchon County, Republic of Korea from 1988 to 1991.

Dr Park is a medical doctor and earned master’s and Ph D degree in medicine specialized in health policy and medicine from Seoul National University College of Medicine. He is married with two daughters.