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September 14, 2010
Welcome to our new blog
Welcome to our new blog, Leading Global Health. This week, we are featuring a series of stories rarely told, yet critical to the developing world: the growing importance of leaders in Ministries of Health.
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September 14, 2010
WHO's Chan: 'Some countries are angry'
Part one of the 8-part series In the Driver’s Seat: A Series on Country Ownership of Health Programs. Dr. Margaret Chan, a medical doctor and native of China, was appointed Director-General of the World Health Organization in November 2006. Her term will run through June 2012.
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September 16, 2010
Ethiopia’s Tedros: No ownership, no scale
Part three of the 8-part series In the Driver’s Seat: A Series on Country Ownership of Health Programs. Ethiopian Health Minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has worked in his country’s Health Ministry since 1986 and has led it since 2005.
Q: What has frustrated you about the lack of country ownership in the past?
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September 20, 2010
From Nepal: `We build step by step’
Part six of the 8-part series In the Driver’s Seat: A Series on Country Ownership of Health Programs. Dr. Sudha Sharma, Nepal’s Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Population and a gynecologist and public health specialist by training, spoke with John Donnelly in her office in Kathmandu earlier this month.
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September 28, 2010
How to Save Women's Lives - the Lessons from Sierra Leone
As published in The Guardian on September 18, 2010.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Since Sierra Leone won its independence from Great Britain nearly a half-century ago, two events have improved the lives of every single citizen in the country.
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