India retained the top WHO position in South-East Asia Region with Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh unanimously re-elected as Regional Director for another five-year term beginning February 2019.
Career:
Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, an Indian national, served for over two decades as a civil servant in India as member of the Indian Administrative Services (IAS).
In 1987 she moved to the Health, Population and Nutrition Department of The World Bank.
In 1998 she joined World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters as Executive Director, Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments Cluster.
In 2014, she became the “first woman to assume the office of WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia Region”.
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