Dr Revite Kirition

Dr Revite Kirition was appointed as Country Liaison Officer to Vanuatu in March 2025.

Dr Revite is a public health practitioner with extensive experience working across the Pacific. Before joining the WHO, he was the Director General of Health at the Kiribati Ministry of Health & Medical Services in his home country where he oversaw various health system strengthening programs. He also held roles as the Director of Public Health, a medical officer and project manager for an EU-funded rural health system strengthening project. 

Previously, Dr Kirition spent a decade in Fiji working at both SPC and the Fiji National University (FNU). During his time in SPC as the Advisor for Health Policy, Planning & Performance in the Public Health Division, he led divisional planning and program design, implemented monitoring and evaluation plans (M&E) including capacity building, and donor/partner relations. At FNU he worked as a health planner for the regional project “Strengthening Specialised Clinical Services in the Pacific” (S SCSiP)—a project generously funded by the Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)—covering 14 Pacific island countries. Noteworthy achievements of this project  were the inauguration of the annual meetings of the Pacific Directors of Clinical Services and Pacific Directors of Nursing Services, and the support provided towards strengthening medical internship programs in several PICs.

Dr Kirition holds a medical degree from the Fiji School of Medicine (now FNU), a Master of Public Health from the University of Auckland, and a Master of Management-Applied Health from the University of Newcastle, Australia.