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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 15, 2010
Shah: 'We want real outcomes in health'
Part two of the 8-part series In the Driver’s Seat: A Series on Country Ownership of Health Programs. Dr. Rajiv Shah was sworn in as the 16th Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on December 31, 2009. He spoke with John Donnelly earlier this month.
Q: What does country ownership mean?
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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 21, 2010
From Mali: `We have a lot of control now’
Part seven of the 8-part series In the Driver’s Seat: A Series on Country Ownership of Health Programs. Dr. Salif Samake is Director of Planning and Statistics for Mali’s Health Ministry.
Q: How important is country ownership of health programs in Mali?
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September 28, 2010
Achieving the health MDGs: country ownership in four steps
As published here in the Lancet on September 22, 2010. To read more about Dr. Tedros' insight into leadership for global health, see his interview with John Donnelly here.
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November 30, 2010
MLI live-blog from Addis Ababa
Welcome to a live blog from the MLI Learning Collaborative Forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The forum will take place over the next four days, ending Friday.
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