Children's health depends on the mothers, so if we can scale up the achievement of the MDGs, it would benefit people in Africa. We should also look a… - Margaret Chan
" "Children's health depends on the mothers, so if we can scale up the achievement of the MDGs, it would benefit people in Africa. We should also look at how we can empower women to leverage their resources and their creativity and become change agents. We have seen example after example where women who are appropriately motivated and given the right environment can make changes, not only to themselves but also to their families and their communities.
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About Margaret Chan
Margaret Chan OBE, MD, JP (born August 21, 1947 in Hong Kong) was the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 2006 to 2017. Chan has previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994–2003) and WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases (2003–2006).
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Chan Fung Fu-chun
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Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun
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There are two things that I feel very happy about from my tenure as Director of Health in Hong Kong: we introduced primary health care and preventive services from conception to old age; and we worked with herbalists to put Traditional Chinese Medicine on a firm footing of promotion, development and regulation.
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