Speeches and messages

Regional Director’s Opening Remarks during 21st Meeting of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Leprosy, New Delhi, India

Regional Director’s Speech during Transforming PHC: Learnings from Faafu Atoll Demonstration Site, Maldives

Regional Director’s Opening Remarks during Regional Virtual Consultative Workshop in preparation of the WHO Global Oral Health Meeting

Regional Director’s Speech during Launching of Maldives-WHO Country Cooperation Strategy

Regional Director’s Speech during Launching of Thalassemia Prevention and Control Plan for the Maldives 2024-2034

International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction

World Sight Day

Regional Director’s Remarks at the Closing Session of the Seventy-seventh Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India

Regional Director’s Remarks at the SEARO care Side-event during the Seventy-seventh Session of WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India

Regional Director’s Opening Speech in the IVD side event on celebrating 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization, during the Seventy-seventh Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India

Regional Director’s Inaugural address at the Seventy-seventh Session of the WHO Regional committee for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India

Regional Director’s Annual Report 2023 Introductory Speech at the Seventy-seventh Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India

World Meningitis Day

UN International Day of Older Persons

Regional Director’s Opening Speech during 5th Ministerial Meeting - Asia Pacific Regional Forum on Health & Environment (APRFHE), Jakarta, Indonesia

Regional Director’s Speech during the 17th Meeting of the South-East Asia Regional Certification Commission for Poliomyelitis Eradication

RD SEARO - OPENING REMARKS on the occasion of the side event FOSTERING AN EQUITABLE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO AMR AT THE UNGA79, New York

WHO SEARO Regional Director’s Inputs during Panel discussion: Investing in early years in emergency and crisis context during UNGA79, New York

WHO SEARO RD’s Inputs on Combating Climate Change & its Devastating Impact on the Path to Ending TB, during UNGA79, New York

Regional Director’s Speech during 9th Meeting of the WHO SEAR Verification Commission for Measles & Rubella Elimination, Kathmandu, Nepal