{"id":77374,"date":"2021-09-01T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T12:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=77374"},"modified":"2021-09-01T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T12:01:06","slug":"ncdc-dg-ihekweazu-gets-new-appointment-at-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/01\/ncdc-dg-ihekweazu-gets-new-appointment-at-who\/","title":{"rendered":"NCDC DG, Ihekweazu gets new appointment at WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current director-general of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu has been appointed as an assistant director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in charge of health emergency intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement issued by the WHO director-general, Tedros Ghebreyesus.<\/p>\n<p>According to the WHO DG, Ihekweazu will lead the work on strengthening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/08\/02\/who-covid-19-wont-be-last-pandemic\/\">pandemic<\/a> and epidemic intelligence globally.<\/p>\n<p>Ghebreyesus further stated the appointment comes into effect on November 1, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased to welcome Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu as an Assistant Director-General for Health Emergency Intelligence from November 1, 2021,\u201d Ghebreyesus said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will lead the work on strengthening pandemic and epidemic intelligence globally, including heading the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am confident that Dr Ihekweazu\u2019s appointment will help further accelerate WHO\u2019s work in health emergencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to WHO, Ihekweazu was trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist and has over 20 years of experience working in senior public health and leadership positions in several national public health institutes, including the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases, the United Kingdom\u2019s Health Protection Agency, and Germany\u2019s Robert Koch Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has led several short-term engagements for WHO, mainly in response to major infectious disease outbreaks around the world,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr Ihekweazu, a Nigerian national, who was born in Germany, is a graduate of the College of Medicine, University of Nigeria and has a Masters in Public Health from the Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany. 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