Speeches and messages

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the FAO-OIE-WHO meeting on One Health approach on AMR mitigation and safer food in the Asia-Pacific Region

Regional Director’s special address for the Economic Times SDG Summit

Regional Director’s address at the 6th meeting of the WHO South-East Asia Region Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination

Regional Director’s closing remarks at the Seventy-fourth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia

Regional Director’s “regional perspective” remarks at the Ministerial Roundtable of the Seventy-fourth Session of the Regional Committee

Regional Director’s “setting the scene” remarks at the Ministerial Roundtable of the Seventy-fourth Session of the Regional Committee

Regional Director’s Annual Report 2020 introductory speech at the Seventy-fourth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia

Regional Director’s inaugural address at the Seventy-fourth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the 14th Bi-Regional Meeting of National Influenza Centres and influenza surveillance in WHO’s Western Pacific and South-East Asia Regions

Regional Director’s inaugural address at the First Expert Panel Meeting of the South-East Asia Region on Healthy Ageing

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the 12th meeting of the SEA Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group

Regional Director’s remarks at the WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination’s 20th Anniversary Webinar Series

Regional Director’s World Hepatitis Day message to the Parliament of India, Lok Sabha

World Hepatitis Day

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the Bi-regional Technical Advisory Group on the Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases and Public Health Emergencies (APSED III): Advancing Implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005)

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the Virtual Launch of Regional Status Reports on Drowning Prevention in the South-East Asia and Western Pacific Regions

Regional Director’s opening address at the Special Video Conference of ASEAN Health Ministers Meeting

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of Asia-Pacific Health Accounts Experts, co-organized by WHO, OECD and OECD Korea Policy Centre

Regional Director’s opening address at the Regional conference on Strengthening Health Information Systems to support evidence-based policy and decision-making

Regional Director’s remarks at the High-level Side Event on the Margins of the High-level Political Forum 2021, “Accelerating progress towards the health-related SDGs in a time of crisis: solutions for an equitable and resilient recovery”