Emeritus Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Margaret Chan is Dean of the Vanke School of Public Health at Tsinghua University. She began her career in public health in 1978 at the Hong Kong Department of Health, where she became Director in 1994, the first woman to hold this position. During her tenure, she strengthened disease prevention, surveillance, and response systems, and notably managed outbreaks of avian influenza and SARS. Dr. Chan joined WHO in 2003 and was elected Director-General in 2006, serving two terms until 2017. She holds a medical degree from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
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