Speeches and messages

Regional Director’s Closing remarks COP29 ATACH Day, Baku, Azerbaijan

Regional Director’s Speech during Regional workshop for capacity building in technology transfer and public-health-oriented intellectual property licensing agreements to increase access to health technologies, Kerela, India

Regional Director’s Remarks during WHO SEARO and WPRO Joint Session - “Climate Resilience in Cities – Building Regional & Community Resilience”, Baku, Azerbaijan

Regional director’s Response during the Panel discussion of 4th Global High-Level Ministerial Conference on AMR, 14 – 16 November 2024, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

One Health Day

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