Speeches and messages

Regional Director’s Opening Speech in the IVD side event on celebrating 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization, during the Seventy-seventh Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India

Regional Director’s Inaugural address at the Seventy-seventh Session of the WHO Regional committee for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India

Regional Director’s Annual Report 2023 Introductory Speech at the Seventy-seventh Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India

World Meningitis Day

UN International Day of Older Persons

Regional Director’s Opening Speech during 5th Ministerial Meeting - Asia Pacific Regional Forum on Health & Environment (APRFHE), Jakarta, Indonesia

Regional Director’s Speech during the 17th Meeting of the South-East Asia Regional Certification Commission for Poliomyelitis Eradication

RD SEARO - OPENING REMARKS on the occasion of the side event FOSTERING AN EQUITABLE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO AMR AT THE UNGA79, New York

WHO SEARO Regional Director’s Inputs during Panel discussion: Investing in early years in emergency and crisis context during UNGA79, New York

WHO SEARO RD’s Inputs on Combating Climate Change & its Devastating Impact on the Path to Ending TB, during UNGA79, New York

Regional Director’s Speech during 9th Meeting of the WHO SEAR Verification Commission for Measles & Rubella Elimination, Kathmandu, Nepal

Regional Director’s Speech during Regional meeting to achieve Universal Health Coverage for adolescent population through Adolescent Responsive Health Systems, Kathmandu, Nepal

Regional Director's Opening Remarks during Regional Meeting to Promote healthy diets and food environments, and physical activity through policies and enabling environments, New Delhi, India

Regional Director’s Opening Address during the 8th Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentarian Forum for Global Health (APPFGH), Port Villa, Vanuatu

Regional Director's Remarks during the 15th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (Safety 2024), New Delhi

Regional Director’s Closing Remarks during WHO-OECD 19th Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Health Accounts Experts, Kuala Lumpur

Regional Director’s Speech (3rd Day), Regional Workshop on Innovations for Quality Integrated Primary Health Care, Jakarta, Indonesia

Regional Director’s Speech during Regional Workshop on Innovations for Quality Integrated Primary Health Care Indonesia

Regional Director’s Speech, during her Country Mission, addressing Ministry of Health, Timor-Leste, at MOH Conference Hall, Ministry of Health, Palacio Cinza

Speech by Regional Director Ms Saima Wazed during the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Field Epidemiology Training Program and launch of the National Influenza Center and Simulation Lab, National Institute of Public Health, Timor-Leste