Speeches and messages

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the World Health Day roundtable discussion “We the people and our planet: healthy, resilient, sustainable”

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the Regional meeting on Operationalizing the South-East Asia Regional Strategy for Primary Health Care

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the Vaccine Manufacturing Workshop for South-East Asia and the Western Pacific

Regional Director’s remarks at the 2021 Asia Pacific Leaders Dialogue for Malaria Elimination on Regional Collaboration for Malaria Elimination & Health Security, 13 December 2021

Regional Director’s opening address at the launch of the South-East Asia Regional Strategy for Primary Health Care on International Universal Health Coverage Day, 13 December 2021

Regional Director’s opening address at the Regional Commemoration of World AIDS Day 2021 and Community-Civil Society Dialogue on the integrated Regional Action Plan on viral hepatitis, HIV and STIs, 2022–2026, 1 December 2021

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the Seventeenth Meeting of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Leprosy Control, 29 November

Regional Director’s opening address at the Second Meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group (STAG) on Viral Hepatitis in the WHO South-East Asia Region

Regional Director’s remarks at the International Webinar on Strengthening Health Systems Resilience towards Health Security

Regional Director’s opening address at the consultation on management of adverse events in treatment of leprosy

Regional Director’s opening address at the 7th SEAR-TAG Members Meeting and Regional Meeting on accelerating reduction in newborn and child mortality

Regional Director’s remarks at the  WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia Side Event of the Global Evidence-to-Policy Summit

Regional Director’s address at the International Forum on the Super Active Ageing Challenge

Regional Director’s remarks at the launch of the WHO SEARO climate change and advocacy toolkit

Regional Director’s remarks at the 20th Anniversary of Thai Health Promotion Foundation

Regional Director’s inaugural address at the Regional meeting on eliminating cervical cancer as a public health problem in the South-East Asia Region

Regional Director’s special address at India Global Forum’s Global Health Tech Boardroom

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the Inter-Ministerial Meeting to Revitalize Health Promoting Schools in South-East Asia Region

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the Summit of the Regional Directors of UN Agencies

Regional Director’s keynote address at the inaugural session of the CII’s 3rd Edition of the Regional Healthcare Summit on “Breakthrough Solutions for the Next Decade”