Speeches and messages

Regional Director’s opening address at the Regional International Universal Health Coverage Day High-level Summit ‘UHC, We Can’

Regional Director’s opening address at the Regional World AIDS Day Commemoration ‘Addressing inequalities in the AIDS response as a pathfinder for accelerating integrated strategy to end epidemics of viral hepatitis, HIV and STI by 2030’

One Health Day: Adapt and implement the One Health Joint Plan of Action

UN International Day of Older Persons: Recognize and celebrate the resilience and contributions of older women

Regional Director’s closing remarks at the Ministerial Roundtable on addressing mental health through primary care and community engagement at the Seventy-fifth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia, 6 September 2022

Regional Director’s Annual Report 2021 introductory speech at the Seventy-fifth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia, 5 September 2022

Regional Director’s inaugural address at the Seventy-fifth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia, 5 September 2022

World Food Safety Day: “Safer food, better health”

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the World Environment Day event and book launch on “Infectious Diseases, Environment, Health and Future”

Regional Director’s remarks at the 15th ASEAN Health Ministers Meeting on “Building Regional Health System Resilience and Accelerating COVID-19 Recovery”

Regional Director’s remarks at the International Strategic Dialogue on Noncommunicable Diseases and the Sustainable Development Goals

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the World Health Day roundtable discussion “We the people and our planet: healthy, resilient, sustainable”

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the Regional meeting on Operationalizing the South-East Asia Regional Strategy for Primary Health Care

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the Vaccine Manufacturing Workshop for South-East Asia and the Western Pacific

Regional Director’s remarks at the 2021 Asia Pacific Leaders Dialogue for Malaria Elimination on Regional Collaboration for Malaria Elimination & Health Security, 13 December 2021

Regional Director’s opening address at the launch of the South-East Asia Regional Strategy for Primary Health Care on International Universal Health Coverage Day, 13 December 2021

Regional Director’s opening address at the Regional Commemoration of World AIDS Day 2021 and Community-Civil Society Dialogue on the integrated Regional Action Plan on viral hepatitis, HIV and STIs, 2022–2026, 1 December 2021

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the Seventeenth Meeting of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Leprosy Control, 29 November

Regional Director’s opening address at the Second Meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group (STAG) on Viral Hepatitis in the WHO South-East Asia Region

Regional Director’s remarks at the International Webinar on Strengthening Health Systems Resilience towards Health Security