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Margaret Chan

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Margaret Chan is a renowned medical expert born in 1947. She has a strong background in public health and served as the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Under her leadership, the WHO played a significant role in global public health matters.

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“We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part.”

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Author:Margaret Chan

“When WHO works with the private sector, the Organization takes all possible measures to ensure its work to develop policy and guidelines is protected from industry influence.”

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“New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.”

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“[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.”

People Millions Century Disease Ancient Malaria Taming

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“Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease that spreads via the airborne route or can be transmitted during the incubation period, before an infected person shows telltale signs of illness.”

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“A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and resources to combat the outbreak in their territories.”

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“I am personally overseeing changes that include the establishment of a global health emergency workforce.”

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“Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.”

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“The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.”

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“We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.”

Should Government Forget Never Forget Providing

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“Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men.”

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“The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.”

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“Avoid activities outdoor. If you like to take an afternoon nap sleep under bed net. So these are measures that can be done to minimize [the] chance of infection [with Zika virus].”

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“Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.”

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“A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.”

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“HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.”

Country Sometimes Reason Problem Disease Aids Hiv Stigma Hiv Aids Hesitant Aids Day

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“This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency.”

Should Government Action Certain Community Industry Higher Pace Ministry Phases Signals Urgency Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical Industry

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“The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.”

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“The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.”

Ifs Way Looks Mean Play Mother Opportunity Given Careers Roles Wife Daughter Assets Multiple Career Women

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“...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months”

Months Six Nine Officials Stunning Apocalyptic Transmission Nine Months Ebola

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“For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.”

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“Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.”

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“Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are exemplary and greatly facilitate the work and daily life of WHO employees.”

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“I want us to be judged by the impact we have on the health of the people of Africa and the health of women. Improvements in the health of the people of Africa and the health of women are key indicators of the performance of WHO. This is a health organization for the whole world... But we must focus our attention on the people in greatest need.”

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“All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.”

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“After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.”

Humanity Threat Pandemics

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“I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.”

Reputation Talkers

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“Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.”

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“Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.”

Issues Solutions International Pandemics Influenza

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“The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.”

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“The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.”

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“Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.”

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“What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship.”

Media Close Relationship

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“When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.”

Ideas Happens Disease No Idea Emerging

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“All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role.”

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“Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units.”

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“At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.”

People World Next Loss Millions Essentials Crisis Cures Multiple Calamity

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“For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.”

People Needs Helping Care Challenges Worry Moderates Helping People Urgent Severity Pandemics

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“I think U.N. organizations are important organizations. They exist for good reasons. And we also admit that there is room for us to improve the way we do business. The WHO will be a very positive and proactive partner in the overall U.N. reform, which is also important.”

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“Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.”

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“Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill.”

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“The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.”

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Born: 1947
Known for: MD
Quotes: 42

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