Dr Corinne Capuano

Dr Corinne Capuano was appointed Director of Programme Management, WHO/Europe on 4 February 2025. Prior to her appointment she was Executive Director, Office of the Regional Director, WHO European Region. She served WHO in the Western Pacific Region for 23 years before joining WHO/Europe in 2023.

Beginning her WHO career as an epidemiologist in Vanuatu, she became the head of the Country Office in the same country in 2001 before being assigned the position in 2006 of Team Leader for the Pacific Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis in the subregional office in Fiji. Three years later she was appointed WHO Representative in Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam and Singapore, based in Malaysia, where she served until 2012. At that time, she moved to Manila as the Director of the Office of the Regional Director, also coordinating external relations and communications for the Region, where she worked until November 2016. She then moved back to the Pacific Subregion as the WHO Representative for the South Pacific and Director of Pacific Technical Support. In February 2021 she was appointed Director of Programme Management in the Western Pacific Region.

Before joining WHO, Dr Corinne Capuano worked as a private practitioner and as a clinician in emergency departments. She later joined the French Ministry of Social Affairs and Health as a public health medical inspector. Between 1989 and 1991, Dr Capuano – together with her husband, a surgeon – worked with Médecins du Monde on the rehabilitation of Calmette Hospital, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

She has a doctorate in medicine with a specialization in public health, master’s degrees in political sciences and in medical law, and a diploma in tropical and parasitic diseases.

Dr Corinne Capuano is married and has three children.