A statement issued last night by the WHO Director General,
Dr Tedros said Ihekweazu will lead the work on strengthening pandemic and
epidemic intelligence globally, including heading the WHO Hub for Pandemic and
Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin.
He said: “I am please to welcome Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu as an
Assistant Director-General for Health Emergency Intelligence from November 1,
2021. He will lead the work on strengthening pandemic and epidemic intelligence
globally, including heading the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in
Berlin”.
” I am confident that Dr Ihekweazu’s appointment will help
further accelerate WHO’s work in health emergencies. Please join me in
welcoming him to WHO”.
Ihekweazu is currently the Director-General of Nigeria
Center for Disease Control.
He was trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist, has
over 20 years of experience working in senior public health and leadership
positions in several National Public Health Institutes, including the South
African National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the United
Kingdom’s Health Protection Agency, and Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
He has led several short-term engagements for WHO, mainly in response to major
infectious disease outbreaks around the world.
According to the profile given by WHO, Ihekweazu, is a
Nigerian national, who was born in Germany. He is a graduate of the College of
Medicine, University of Nigeria and has a Masters in Public Health (MPH) from
the Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany.
In 2003, he was awarded a Fellowship for the European
Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) and subsequently
completed his Public Health specialization in the United Kingdom. He is widely
published in medical peer-review journals.
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