Speeches and messages

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

Speech by the Regional Director at the International Consultation on Research to Combat Nipah Virus Disease

Address by the Regional Director at the High-Level Preparatory Meeting for the Seventy-first Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia

World Hepatitis Day 2018

World Population Day 2018

Address by the Regional Director at the Regional meeting on Accelerating the Reduction of Maternal, Newborn mortality and Stillbirths: towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Address by the Regional Director at the Meeting of the Bi-regional Technical Advisory Group on the Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging diseases and Public Health Emergencies (APSED III): Advancing Implementation of the IHR (2005)

World Blood Donor Day 2018

World No Tobacco Day 2018

World Malaria Day 2018

World Malaria Day 2018

Regional Director’s Address at the Global World Health Day 2018 Event

Address by the Regional Director at the Informal meeting of stakeholders on scaling up CVD management

World Health Day 2018