Speeches and messages

Regional Director’s inaugural address at the Seventy-sixth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia

Regional Director’s Annual Report 2022 introductory speech at the Seventy-sixth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia

Regional Director’s remarks at the virtual launch of the WHO Guidance on Engagement of Communities and Civil Society to end TB

World Sight Day: The importance of eye care in the workplace

Regional Director’s address at the 19th Meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Leprosy, Goa

UN International Day of Older Persons 2023: Fulfilling the Promise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for Older Persons: Across Generations

Regional Director’s address at the Inauguration Ceremony of GERICON 2023, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

World Patient safety day 2023

Regional Director’s keynote address at the Bhutan Cervical Cancer Symposium: Advancing towards Elimination, Thimphu, Bhutan

Regional Director’s remarks at the Fourteenth Meeting of the WHO South-East Asia Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group, New Delhi, India

Regional Director’s address at the opening of the Centre for Health Systems Policy & Innovation and the launch of the Special Issue of the Ceylon Medical Journal

Regional Director’s keynote address at Healthcare Beyond Borders Interphase Session B

Regional Director’s remarks at the high-level meeting to sustain, accelerate and innovate to end TB in the South-East Asia Region, Gujarat, India

Regional Director’s address at the inauguration of the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit: Towards health and well-being for all

World Drowning Prevention Day

Regional Director’s remarks at the workshop for updating operational plans for island countries and countries closer to elimination towards implementation of Global Leprosy Strategy 2021-2030, Manila, The Philippines

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the 7th Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Network on Access to Medicines under Universal Health Coverage

Regional Director’s remarks at the South-East Asia regional workshop to strengthen routine immunization capacities post COVID-19 pandemic

World Environment Day

Regional Director’s remarks at the G-20 co-branded event ‘Accelerating the Prevention and Management of Hypertension and Diabetes’