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Gro Harlem Brundtland is a Norwegian politician, who served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway and as Director-General of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003. She is also known for having chaired the Brundtland Commission which presented the Brundtland Report on sustainable development.

Educated as a physician, Brundtland joined the Labour Party and entered the government in 1974 as Minister of the Environment. She became the first female Prime Minister of Norway on 4 February 1981, but left office on 14 October 1981; she returned as Prime Minister on 9 May 1986 and served until 16 October 1989. She finally returned for her third term on 3 November 1990. From 1981 to 1992 she was leader of the Labour Party. After her surprise resignation as Prime Minister in 1996, she became an international leader in sustainable development and public health, and served as Director-General of the World Health Organization and as UN Special Envoy on Climate Change from 2007 to 2010. She is also deputy chair of The Elders and a former Vice-President of the Socialist International.

Brundtland belonged to the moderate wing of her party and supported Norwegian membership in the European Union during the 1994 referendum. As Prime Minister Brundtland became widely known as the "mother of the nation." Brundtland received the 1994 Charlemagne Prize, and has received many other awards and recognitions. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. April 1939
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Famous Gro Harlem Brundtland Quotes

“We have an opportunity to launch a massive effort against infectious diseases.”

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Awake! magazine 2003, 10/22 http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102003763?q=Brundtland&p=par

“The global toll of mental illness and neurological disorders is staggering.”

Gro Harlem Brundtland

A WHO report revealed that mental disorders are “among the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide.
Awake! magazine 7/22 2002. http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102002530?q=Brundtland&p=par

“Nurses, as the key health professionals, are in a unique position to act as powerful advocates for a healthy planet. […] As nurses and midwives already constitute up to 80% of the qualified health workforce in most national health systems, they represent a potentially powerful force for bringing about the necessary changes to meet the needs of Health for All in the 21st century. Indeed, their contribution to health services covers the whole spectrum of health care […] It is clear that nurses are the backbone of most health care teams.”

Gro Harlem Brundtland

At the International Council of Nurses Centennial Conference in June 1999. Awake! magazine 2000, 11/8 http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102000802?q=Brundtland&p=par

“It's typically Norwegian to be good.”

Gro Harlem Brundtland

New Years Eve Speech (1 January 1992)

“Tobacco is a communicated disease – communicated through marketing.”

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Sanam Luang, Bangkok, May 2000, cited in "Spotlight on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Article 5.3 Tobacco Industry Interference" https://smokefreepartnership.eu/our-policy-work/spotlight-on-the-fctc/spotlight-3-tobacco-industry-interference (page 2).

“[20th Century has been called] the century of extremes, […] in which human vices reached unfathomable depths. [She notes that it has been] a century of great progress [and in some places of] unprecedented economic growth. [At the same time, however, poor urban areas face a bleak future of] overcrowding and a disease pattern linked to poverty and an unhealthy environment.”

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Awake! magazine 1999, 12/8, article: The Most Profound Changes.

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