Speeches and messages

Regional Director’s Address at the Regional Meeting on accelerating access to rehabilitation in Southeast Asia, Dhaka, Bangladesh

World Population Day

Regional Director’s Message during Regional Consultation on Adolescent Pregnancy Policy/ Legal and Programmatic barriers to adolescents and young people’s access to health information and services across South Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal

Regional Director’s Opening Speech during the Meeting for the development of action plans towards interruption of transmission and elimination of leprosy disease in the Region of the Americas, La Antigua Guatemala

Regional Director’s Opening Address in South-East Asia Regulatory Network Meeting of the Assembly of the Members, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Regional Director’s Speech during South-East Asia Regional workshop to address the challenges of illicit tobacco trade and unrecorded alcohol, Bangkok, Thailand

Regional Director’s Speech during Regional Workshop on "Implementation of Good Reliance Practices for Vaccines Regulation based on emerging novel technologies”, Pune, India

Regional Director’s Speech during Meeting of the National Programme Managers and Regional Technical Advisory Group (RTAG) of Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination, Kathmandu, Nepal

Regional Director’s Speech during Global Forum on Advancing Multisectoral and Multistakeholder Engagement and Accountability to End TB, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Regional Director’s Keynote Address at the Global Health Security 2024 (GHS2024) Conference, International Convention Centre (ICC), Sydney, Australia

Address by Regional Director WHO, Regional Office for South-East Asia MENTAL HEALTH SUMMIT: voices of people with lived experience in South-East Asia Region

Regional Director’s Keynote Address on “Political commitment and leadership: the key success in addressing AMR” during The 4th National Forum on Antimicrobial Resistance, Bangkok, Thailand

Regional Director’s opening address during Regional Meeting on Healthy Ageing, New Delhi

RD’s message for the WHO South-East Asia Regional Workshop on scaling up services for cancer and implementing South-East Asia Cancer Grid, Kathmandu, Nepal

Regional Director’s Opening Remarks at the WHO South-East Asia Regional meeting on nutrition and climate change, Kathmandu, Nepal

Regional Director’s Welcome Address at the Regional Hybrid Workshop on Optimizing the Use of Reference Standards, Bangkok, Thailand,

Regional Director’s Opening Address at The Second Workshop of the Public Procurement Agencies in WHO South-East Asia Region on improving access to Medicine at Jakarta, Indonesia

Regional Director’s message at Workshop on WHO costing and budgeting tool for multisectoral National Action Plans on Antimicrobial Resistance (NAP-AMR) in the Member States Bangkok, Thailand

Regional Director’s Remarks at the Eighth Meeting of Regional Technical Advisory Group (TAG), on Newborn Health, New Delhi, India

International Nurses Day