Speeches and messages

Address by the Regional Director at the Government of India’s Event on Hepatitis B

World Cancer Day 2019

World Leprosy Day 2019

Address by the Regional Director at the Meeting of SEAR-TAG members and H6 Regional Working Group towards reducing preventable maternal and perinatal mortality

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, 25 November – 10 December 2018

World AIDS Day 2018

Address by the Regional Director at the International Conference on Innovations for the Elimination and Control of Visceral Leishmaniasis

Address by the Regional Director at the Celebration of Nepal’s elimination of Trachoma as a Public Health Problem

World Toilet Day 2018

World Diabetes Day 2018

Speech by the Regional Director at the Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony and Annual Day Celebration at ICMR-NIMR

Keynote Address at the State Health Ministers’ Roundtable Panel on Access to Medical Products

Regional Director’s Special Address at Plenary Session 1: Access to Medical Products to achieve the SDGs

Inaugural Speech by the Regional Director at the second World conference on Access to Medical Products – Achieving the SDGs 2030

World Heart Day 2018

Address by the Regional Director at the “Time to Deliver: Alcohol, NCDs and Sustainable Development” side-event at the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly

Address by the Regional Director at the “Eliminating TB in 2030: Accelerating innovation and collaboration to ending TB in south-East Asia” side-event at the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly

Address by the Regional Director at the “Friends of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases” side-event at the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly

Regional Director’s speech at the ‘Breaking the Barriers’ side-event on TB, co-hosted by Sri Lanka and WHO SEARO, at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly

Speech by the Regional Director at the Twentieth Anniversary celebration of the Rural and Community Eye Health Unit, LV Prasad Eye Institute