Margaret Chan Quotes

This is a Hong Kong name; Fung is the maiden name and Chan is the married name.Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, is a Chinese-Canadian physician, who served as the Director-General of the World Health Organization delegating the People's Republic of China for 2006–2017. Chan was elected by the Executive Board of WHO on 8 November 2006, and was endorsed in a special meeting of the World Health Assembly on the following day. Chan has previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government , representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza and WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases . In 2014, Forbes ranked her as the 30th most powerful woman in the world. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. August 1947
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Famous Margaret Chan Quotes

“I want to remind governments in every country of the range and force of counter-tactics used by the tobacco industry – an industry that has much money and no qualms about using it in the most devious ways imaginable.”

At the launch of the WHO Report on the global tobacco epidemic. Source: Tobacco industry interference: a global brief http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/70894/1/WHO_NMH_TFI_12.1_eng.pdf, World Health Organization, 2008, page 6.

“Health systems are social institutions. They do far more for society than deliver babies and pills, like a post office delivering parcels. Properly managed and adequately financed, a fair and equitable health system contributes to social cohesion and stability.”

"Exclusive Interview with WHO's Dr. Margaret Chan" http://www.usaid.gov/news-information/frontlines/global-healthiraq/exclusive-interview-whos-dr-margaret-chan, April-May 2011.

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