Speeches and messages

Regional Director’s Annual Report 2019 introductory speech at the Seventy-third Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia (virtual)

Regional Director’s inaugural address at the Seventy-third Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia (virtual)

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the Virtual Meeting of the Regional Director with the Hon’ble Ministers of Health of SEA Region Member States

Regional Director’s Closing Remarks at the International Symposium on Novel ideas in Science and Ethics of Vaccines against Covid-19 pandemic (A fully online, multi-country program)

Regional Director’s opening address at the South-East Asia Regional Health Partners' Forum (virtual)

Regional Director’s address at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences’ World Hepatitis Day e-Conclave

Regional Director's address at the Global Webinar on the occasion of World Hepatitis Day 2020

World Hepatitis Day 2020

Regional Director’s address at the Regional Webinar on World Hepatitis Day

Regional Director’s opening address at the Eleventh Meeting (Virtual) of SEAR Immunization Technical Advisory Group

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the 13th (Special) Meeting of the Collaborative Arrangement for the Prevention and Management of Public Health Events in Civil Aviation Asia Pacific (CAPSCA-AP)

Regional Director’s Opening Address at the Fifth Meeting of the SEA Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (SEA-RVC)

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the 18th Board Meeting of Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (Virtual)

Regional Director’s keynote address at the Third Edition of The Economic Times Doctors Day 2020

International Day of Yoga 2020

World Blood Donor Day 2020

World Food Safety Day 2020

World Environment Day 2020

World No Tobacco Day 2020

International Day of the Midwife and International Nurses Day 2020