“What matters most to me is people and two specific groups of people in particular.”
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Margaret Chan
Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun is a Chinese-Canadian physician and politician, who served as the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegating the People's Republic of China from 2006 to 2017. Chan previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994–2003) and representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza and WHO Assistant Director-General…
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science · Chinese-Canadian physician (born 1947) · physician · civil servant · politician · justice of the peace · also Margaret Chan, Chan Fung Fu-chun, Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, Chan
Born 22 August 1947 · Q270650
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The New York Times: Margaret Chan
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2022· 2 entries
Published “IDF Diabetes Atlas: Global, regional and country-level diabetes prevalence estimates for 2021 and projections for 2045” in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice — cited 8,909 times.
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“As the No 3 figure in the US government, Pelosi visiting Taiwan on a US military plane is a gross interference in China”
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Tatler Most Influential Hong Kong (2021).
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2020· 1 entry
Published “The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans” in Nature — cited 9,227 times.
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2018· 2 entries
Awarded Pioneer of Reform (2018).
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Chan joined the Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health, a group convened by Michael R
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2017· 1 entry
Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,280 times.
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2016· 3 entries
Published “ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions” in BMJ — cited 15,597 times.
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Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,742 times.
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At the request of the WHA, Chan launched the Health Emergencies Programme
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2014· 4 entries
Published “Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide” in BMJ — cited 8,364 times.
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And 2015, Chan was again heavily criticised because of the slow response of the WHO to the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
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Forbes ranked her as the 30th most powerful woman in the world
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Chan was ranked as the 30th most powerful woman in the world, based on her position as Director-General, by Forbes
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2011· 1 entry
Because of financial constraints in donor countries the WHO slashed its budget by nearly $1 billion and cut 300 jobs at its headquarters under Chan's leadership
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2010· 2 entries
Chan was criticised for "crying wolf" about the 2009 flu pandemic, which turned out to be much milder than expected
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“s health system would be the envy of many developing countries because of the abundance of medical staff. She also noted there were no signs of obesity in the country, which is a newly emerging problem in other parts of Asia. Chan”
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2007· 1 entry
Career landmark: Director-General of the World Health Organization (2007–2017).
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2001· 2 entries
That North Korea's health system was near collapse
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Published “Active contours without edges” in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing — cited 8,324 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Prince Mahidol Award (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
Chan was given the distinction for the Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom and was also appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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1985· 1 entry
Studied at National University of Singapore, public health professional degree (1985).
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1977· 1 entry
Studied at University of Western Ontario, Bachelor of Arts (1977).
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1973· 1 entry
And a doctor of medicine in 1977 from the University of Western Ontario in Canada
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1947· 2 entries
Born 1947-08-22.
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“s Daily Online) Bird flu expert set to lead WHO (BBC News) WHO Board Nominates Margaret Chan As Director General (Wall Street Journal Online) Who”
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